Amid a rebellion by Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde, party MP Sanjay Raut on Thursday said the Sena is ready to quit the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government in Maharashtra if the group of rebel legislators camping in Assam returns to Mumbai in 24 hours and discusses the issue with Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. Read more
The government has ordered an investigation into a fire incident involving a Tata Motors electric vehicle, an official said on Thursday, after the automaker described it as an "isolated thermal incident". Read more
Following incessant rains in Assam, Silchar town in the Cachar district has been submerged in flood waters on June 22. People are commuting on boats due to inundated lanes. Watch video
Amid a walkout by O Panneerselvam, the Edappadi K Palaniswami faction on Thursday stopped short of declaring the latter as the general secretary of the AIADMK at the much-awaited General Council meeting whose members rejected all 23 resolutions that were earlier approved by the party leadership. Read more
Nearly 100 Trinamool Congress members and workers of Assam unit of TMC protesting outside Radisson Blu Hotel in Guwahati, where rebel Maharashtra MLAs, including Shiv Sena's Eknath Shinde, are staying, have been detained. Read more
Survivors dug with hand Thursday through villages in eastern Afghanistan reduced to rubble by a powerful earthquake that killed at least 1,000 people, as the Taliban and the international community that fled their takeover struggled to aid the disaster's victims. Read more
While bulldozers are more in news these days over their use for razing the properties of rioters in some states, a groom here in Madhya Pradesh chose it, instead of a horse or car, for his marriage procession. Read more