Karnataka Deputy chief minister and state Congress president DK Shivakumar on Saturday responded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s criticism of their ‘unrealistic promises’ and said, "Our guarantees are reforming the country. The entire country is looking at our model. ....

Two unidentified terrorists were killed on Saturday in an encounter in Jammu & Kashmir’s Anantnag district while firing continued between holed-up terrorists and the security forces in downtown Srinagar. ....

After the Army and security forces engaged terrorists in a sustained gunfight on Monday in the Akhnoor area of Jammu district, officials said the firing has stopped but the operation continued. ....

Amid recent seizures of gold and cash and also expenditure in excess of the stipulated norms, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has put 87 Assembly constituencies out of the total 288 seats in Maharashtra under close vigil. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has praised the Tata-Airbus C-295 aircraft manufacturing facility in Vadodara as a symbol of “the new work culture of New India”, commending the swift and efficient execution of the project from its groundbreaking just two years ago to its inauguration this month. ....

West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front (WBJDF), the umbrella body of the junior doctors protesting in the aftermath of the rape and murder of a fellow medico here, is planning to expand their base beyond urban bastions in the state to rural Bengal. ....

Notorious gangster Sundar Bhati, serving a life sentence for the murder of Samajwadi Party leader Harendra Nagar and his gunner Bhudev Sharma, has been granted bail by the Allahabad High Court and gone underground since then. ....

Three people died of electrocution on the waterlogged streets of West Bengal in three different parts of the state since Friday night. ....

Navya Haridas, the BJP candidate from Wayanad, on Thursday, expressed confidence in winning the upcoming Lok Sabha bypoll, asserting that the people of the constituency are "not ready to accept" Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as their representative. ....

As Cyclone Dana inched closer to West Bengal's coast, the weather office has predicted that East Midnapore and portions of South 24 Parganas districts will be the worst affected in the state. ....