After months of campaigning for the Nobel Peace Prize, President Donald Trump sent a sharply different message on Friday when he signed an executive order aimed at rebranding the Department of Defence as the Department of War.

 Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday sought to know why the BJP is afraid of ballot paper, while defending his government's decision to revert to the old system of voting during elections for the local body polls, instead of using the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs).

Six persons died after the cable wire of a cargo ropeway snapped at Pavagadh Hill in Gujarat's Panchmahal district on Saturday, officials said. 

Tamil Nadu Congress MP Sasikanth Senthil on Saturday said he has filed a criminal defamation case against Karnataka MLA Janardhan Reddy in a court here for making allegations and linking him to the Dharmasthala case and rejected the claims as politically motivated and reckless.

In an accident that occurred near Somwarpet, one youngster was killed on the spot and five people were seriously injured when a truck collided with a motorbike and a car near the National Highway Bypass. 

The police have arrested a youth for the murder of a 22-year-old woman in Bhubaneswar, who was missing since January 24 this year, a senior officer said here on Saturday.

A 50-year-old man was arrested from Sector-79 in Noida by Mumbai police on Saturday for issuing a threatening message about a bomb blast during the Ganesh festival in Mumbai. Originally from Patna, Ashwin Kumar Supra has been living in Sector 79 of Noida for the past five years working as an astrologer and Vastu consultant.

A doctor, who is said to be in distress for failing to clear the postgraduate medical exams, allegedly shot himself dead at his residence in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district, police said on Saturday.