The BJP on Saturday released its first list of candidates for 44 of the 60 seats in Tripura Assembly, polls for which will be held on February 18. ....

At least 1,100 train passengers were stranded at New Haflong railway station in Assam's Dima Hasao district since Friday as protests continued on Saturday against police firing that killed two persons. ....

Maoists went on rampage in Telangana's Bhadradri Kothagudem district early Saturday, killing one and injuring another former guerrilla member, whom they suspected of being police informers. ....

At least 13 persons were killed and four others injured after a minibus fell into a river early on Saturday, an official from Kolhapur Control said. ....

A call for 12-hour shutdown on Thursday in Karnataka has been given by several Kannada organisations and regional outfits for the Mahadayi river water from the neighbouring Goa state in the northwest. ....

The Gujarat government and various organisations of the Rajputs on Wednesday jointly announced that cinemas and multiplexes across the state will not screen 'Padmaavat' while those opposing its release will not join the 'Bharat bandh' on Thursday. ....

In a major decision, the Shiv Sena on Tuesday decided to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha and Assembly elections independent of its ally, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. ....

A court here on Saturday send six men to the gallows in the honour killings of three Dalit youths in Ahmednagar district five years ago. ....

A Class 12 student allegedly shot dead the principal of his school in Haryana's Yamunanagar on Saturday, police said. ....

Pandemonium marred the proceedings of Jammu and Kashmir assembly on Friday as the opposition again created an uproar over the murder of a minor girl in Kathua district. ....