At least eight persons were killed and nearly 20 others injured in an accident between a bus and a long-body truck due to dense fog in Punjab on Tuesday morning, police said. ....

Dineshwar Sharma, the Centres special representative for Kashmir, will arrive here on Monday on a five-day visit to start the multi-layered dialogue process. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday assured Tamil Nadu of full assistance from the Centre to handle the situation arising out of heavy rains and floods here and in other parts of the state. ....

Bihar BJP President Nityanand Rai on Sunday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a reincarnation of Swami Vivekananda. ....

After a very short breather, Delhi and NCR on Sunday saw a considerable dip in the air quality, which was back under 'severe' category at several places, while pollution levels at some places during morning hours were 12 to 19 times the permissible limit. ....

Three pilgrims died and over a dozen others were injured on Saturday in a stampede on the banks of the Ganga river in Bihar's Begusarai district, an official said. ....

Five police officers were on Friday suspended in Madhya Pradesh for the alleged gang rape of a 19-year-old daughter of a police couple in the state capital on Tuesday, a senior police officer said. ....

Nine of the seriously injured in the massive blast at an NTPC plant in Uttar Pradesh have been shifted to the Safdarjung Hospital here, five of them with critical burn injuries, doctors said on Friday. ....

Owing to continuous rains schools and colleges in Chennai, Kanchipuram, Tiruvallur, Pudukottai and Nagapattiman districts of Tamil Nadu were closed on Friday. ....

With the change in the wind direction and slight rise in temperature, Delhi on Thursday recorded a slight improvement in the air quality which however remained "very poor" generally but the situation in the NCR was a little better. ....