The Telangana government has advanced summer holidays for schools in view of a severe heat wave in the state. ....

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has directed the Directorate of Health Services to rush to Majuli and probe the circumstances in which a youth had to carry the dead body of his relative on a bicycle from hospital to his village. ....

At least 44 passengers were killed when a private bus fell into a river in Himachal Pradesh's Shimla district on Wednesday, police said. Two people, including the bus conductor, managed to escape by jumping off the bus even as it skidded off the road. ....

Mild tremors on early Tuesday stirred panic across southern Karnataka, forcing people to rush out of houses into open spaces for safety. ....

A servitor of Sri Jagannath Temple in Odisha's Puri city was on Tuesday detained by the police for opposing the visit of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to the temple. ....

At least two poachers were killed by forest guards in Assam's Orang national park on Tuesday, an official said. ....

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh in a money laundering case. He must appear before it on April 20, an official told Media on Tuesday. ....

In a late night meeting on Monday, senior Tamil Nadu ministers discussed the issue of having talks with rival faction led by former Chief Minister O.Pannneerselvam, said Finance Minister D.Jayakumar. ....

Five persons, including two pedestrians, were killed and four others injured in a road accident near Panaji on Monday evening, police said. ....

A day after the Telangana legislature passed a bill hiking the quota for backward Muslims from four to 12 per cent, the BJP said the move would create social tensions and called it a "black day". ....