Polling is underway on Saturday at a booth of Karimganj (North) assembly constituency in Assam’s Sribhumi district, where re-election was ordered following clashes between supporters of the BJP and the Congress two days ago, officials said.

 Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri will undertake a three-day visit to Paris and Berlin beginning Sunday for high-level talks on energy, trade and defence -- sectors that have become increasingly critical amid a fractured geopolitical landscape.

A 75-year-old man died after some portion of a slab in a two-storey residential structure collapsed on him in Mumbai's Bhandup area on Saturday morning, officials said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday promised to accelerate the provision of citizenship under CAA for Matua, Namasudra and other refugee communities if the BJP came to power in West Bengal, while warning "infiltrators" to "pack up their bags".

Gangster Sahil Chauhan, wanted in multiple cases in different states, and facing an Interpol Red Notice, was deported from Thailand, CBI officials said on Saturday.

A Vande Bharat train operating from Ernakulam to Bengaluru sustained minor damage in a stone-pelting incident a day earlier, police said on Saturday.

Karnataka Minister M B Patil on Saturday said the state government has fast-tracked approvals for investment projects and taken measures to cut red tape.

As many as 32 persons, including policemen, were injured after a bus collided with a container lorry at Koyilandy here on Saturday, officials said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday expressed deep concern over the health of legendary playback singer Asha Bhosle, who was admitted to a hospital in Mumbai, and wished for her speedy recovery.

 With the recovery of two more bodies on Sunday, the death toll in the boat capsize incident in the Yamuna river in Mathura has climbed to 13, officials said on Sunday.

 Half-burnt bodies of a woman and her daughter were found in a trunk in their house in Sandeshkhali in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district, police said on Sunday.

 Tributes poured in from across the film industry for legendary playback singer Asha Bhosle, who passed away at the age of 92 following multi-organ failure at Mumbai's Breach Candy Hospital on Sunday.

Police have launched a probe against faculty members of Kannur Dental College after a first-year student died after falling from a building in a suspected suicide, officials said on Sunday.

Police have busted an Indian Premier League (IPL) betting racket operating out of a house in South Goa, arresting four persons, an official said on Sunday.

Manipal police have rescued a man who was kidnapped from outside a hospital canteen and arrested four accused in connection with the case.

A Chinese delegation is expected to arrive in Islamabad to support Pakistan’s mediation efforts in ongoing talks between the United States and Iran, according to a Pakistani foreign ministry source.

 A 65-year-old farmer was killed in a wild elephant attack in Belur taluk on Sunday morning.

Film and television actor Hoskote Harish died in a road accident where his car rammed into a tanker parked by the National Highway 275 near Anekad. He was 40.

A man posing as an IB officer was arrested from Gayaji railway station in Bihar, officials said on Sunday.
 

Karnataka Congress president D K Shivakumar on Sunday accepted the resignation of party Minority Department chairman K Abdul Jabbar and dissolved the committees constituted under him.

A 22-year-old woman committed suicide in Hyderabad about a month after a relative allegedly injected her with HIV-infected blood after she rejected a marriage proposal, police said.