In a ghastly crime, a man beheaded his wife and went to a court with the severed head in Jharkhand's Singhbhum district on Monday, police said. ....

The agitating tribal groups in Nagaland on Tuesday withdrew their indefinite shutdown on government offices and plying of government vehicles on the road, following the resignation of Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang on Sunday. ....

The 39-day budget session of the Madhya Pradesh assembly will begin from Tuesday and end on March 31, it was announced on Monday. ....

A man has been arrested for stabbing his friend to death in the capital, police said on Monday. ....

Hundreds of thousands voted on Tuesday across Maharashtra to elect 10 major civic bodies, including the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), India's largest and richest civic body. ....

Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who has not campaigned in the ongoing Uttar Pradesh elections, didn't figure in the party's campaign schedule for Tuesday -- the last day to seek votes for the fourth phase of balloting on Thursday. ....

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Monday took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi by asking Amitabh Bachchan to stop promoting "donkeys of Gujarat" -- a sarcastic reference to a tourism promo on wild asses that features the superstar. ....

The BSF on Monday seized Bangladeshi currency worth 8 lakh taka and arrested two Indians from West Bengal's Nadia district for allegedly smuggling the money to India, an official said. ....

Once political rivals, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi and Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Akhilesh Yadav seem to be sharing great camaraderie in Uttar Pradesh assembly polls for which their parties have stitched an alliance. ....

A 24-year-old woman on Monday attempted to commit suicide by jumping in front of a Delhi Metro train at the Guru Dronacharya station here, police said. ....