Three women were shot dead by unidentified assailants inside a house in an upscale locality of Jalandhar city in Punjab on Thursday evening, police said. ....

The Gujarat Assembly witnessed stormy scenes on Thursday as members of the ruling BJP and opposition Congress came to blows over suicides of farmers in the state, leaving Minister Nirmala Wadhvani and Congress member Baldev Thakore injured. ....

A local court in Keonjhar district of Odisha on Thursday awarded 20 years' rigorous imprisonment to two persons for gang-raping a tribal woman in February last year. ....

The Shiv Sena finished on top of a hung BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Thursday but the BJP said it could take control of India's richest civic body with the backing of independents. ....

In what could be a huge setback to the Pawar family, the Bharatiya Janata Party raced towards victory in Pune Municipal Corporation elections by notching comfortable leads in 65 of the 162 wards, pushing the ruling Nationalist Congress Party to a distant second at 32 here on Thursday. ....

Two people were killed and seven others injured on Thursday in a road accident in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. ....

The bodies of a young man and his alleged beloved were found on a railway track near Pataudi Road railway station here, the district police said on Wednesday. ....

Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday offered gold ornaments worth Rs 5 crore to Lord Venkateswara, fulfilling a vow he had taken during the movement for a separate state. ....

Union Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday condoled the death of workers in a fire at a factory in Hyderabad that left six persons dead. ....

At least six workers were killed in the fire that broke out in an air cooler manufacturing unit in Hyderabad on Wednesday morning, police said. ....