At least 81 people have died in Gujarat over the past four days in the heavy rainfall, which has created flood-like situation in many areas of the state, officials said on Friday. ...
Hoopster Satnam Singh Bhamara on Friday created history by becoming the first Indian to get drafted in the National Basketball Association (NBA). ...
At least nine people were killed because of a flash flood in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, media reported on Friday....
A 50-year-old farmer, reportedly in heavy debt, immolated himself on Thursday by setting his sugarcane field on fire and then jumping into it in Karnataka's Mandya district, police said....
Pressure continued to mount for her resignation over help to former IPL chief Lalit Modi, but the BJP leadership has decided to back Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhra Raje for now, even after she reportedly conveyed to party leaders that she had testified on his immigration application document. ...
The AAP government in Delhi on Thursday made it clear that health, education and transport were the key areas it has focussed on in its Rs.41,129 crore budget for the 2015-16 financial year. ...

As the US Supreme Court handed President Barack Obama a huge victory by upholding his signature healthcare law that opposition Republicans have tried to repeal countless times, he vowed to make it even better....
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday directed the interior ministry to thoroughly investigate claims made in a BBC report about the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) receiving funding from India, and sought an early report. ...
"Tama", the cat who was named railway station master in western Japan and became an important tourist attraction in the region, died due to heart failure, Wakayama Electric Railway said on Thursday....
Myanmar's National League for Democracy chairperson Aung San Suu Kyi won't be able to run for president in the upcoming election as the country's parliament on Thursday failed to remove the army's veto over constitutional change, media reported....