Finance Minister Thomas Issac, while presenting the budget for 2017-18 in the Kerala assembly on Friday, announced free medicines for people suffering from lifestyle diseases like hypertension, diabetes and cholesterol. ....

The situation in Uttar Pradesh's violence-hit Lakhimpur Kheri, where an objectionable video on Hindu deities on social media led to communal clashes, leaving two injured, is getting back to normal, officials said on Friday. ....

Two youths were arrested on Thursday on the charge of gang raping a minor girl in Gurugram, Delhi Police said. ....

RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Thursday said the BJP will be "clean bowled" in the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, just like in the Bihar elections last year. ....

Police have arrested a doctor, a couple and two others for selling a baby girl for Rs 35,000. ....

Four people were injured after unidentified persons hurled bombs at an RSS office at Kallachi in Kozhikode on Thursday night, a police official said. ....

The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) on Thursday announced that it will auction off the Taj Mansingh Hotel here and that it has cancelled the licence of Le Meridien Hotel due to non-payment of fees. ....

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan declared on Thursday he was not bothered by a RSS leader's offer of Rs 1 crore to have him killed, but the CPI-M warned the RSS to behave. ....

A BJP legislator on Thursday filed a case against Bihar Excise and Prohibition Minister Abdul Jalil Mastan over a video clip that showed him asking people to beat Prime Minister Narendra Modi's photograph with shoes. ....

Former Tamil Nadu assembly Speaker P.H. Pandian on Thursday alleged that J. Jayalalithaa was admitted to Apollo Hospitals on September 22, 2016, after the then Chief Minister was pushed down by someone at her Poes Garden residence here. ....