Brisk voting is reported on Wednesday in Varanasi, the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in the first two hours in the seventh and final phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh. ....

Polling began in 40 Uttar Pradesh assembly segments at 7 a.m. on Wednesday and around 26% voters cast their votes till noon. ....

The Border Security Force personnel seized 70 head of cattle worth more than Rs 6 lakh and two trawlers, used to carry the animals, worth Rs 14 lakh during a joint operation with the state police forces in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, a BSF official said on Tuesday. ....

Delhi's GSDP growth rate saw a decline from 8.82 per cent in 2015-16 to 8.26 per cent in 2016-17, according to the advance estimates in Delhi's Economic Survey report, tabled in the assembly on Tuesday. ....

Delhi University professor G.N. Saibaba, who is wheelchair-bound, was on Tuesday sentenced to life imprisonment by a Maharashtra court for his links with Maoists. ....

Meghalaya Home Minister Horju Donkupar Roy Lyngdoh on Tuesday said that the law will take its own course if even his own kin was found involved in the sex racket in the guest house owned by his son. ....

In a suspected terror attack, at least eight persons were injured, two of them seriously, in an explosion in a Bhopal-Ujjain passenger train in Shajapur district of Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday, authorities said. ....

Six youths were on Tuesday arrested for raping seven school girls, who are inmates of an orphanage near here, police said. ....

A gunfight between a suspected IS operative and commandos of the Uttar Pradesh Police's Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) was underway here on Tuesday, the police said. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks votes in Uttar Pradesh in the name of "shamshan ghat" and not on the basis of his work, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Tuesday. ....