A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the Centre's Ethanol Blending Programme, which mandates the sale of petrol blended with 20% ethanol (E20). The petitioner, Advocate Akshay Malhotra, has urged the Court to direct the government to provide an ethanol-free petrol (E0) option for consumers.

The Udupi Additional Civil Judge and First Class Judicial Magistrate’s Court on Saturday ordered that Mahesh Shetty Timarodi be handed over to police custody for two hours for interrogation.

Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen expressed concerns over the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, warning that the exercise, if not handled sensitively, could end up "disenfranchising" a large number of poor and marginalised people.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Kerala vice-president B Gopalakrishnan has stirred controversy with remarks suggesting that the party will relocate people from other states, including Jammu and Kashmir, to constituencies it seeks to win.

Veteran Communist Party of India (CPI) leader Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy died at a private hospital here on Friday, party sources said. He was 83.

Serious allegations of sexual misconduct and exploitation have been levelled against Kerala-based spiritual healer “Yogi Guruji” (real name Basil) following a meditation retreat held earlier this month in Wayanad.

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Saturday produced the complainant witness in the Dharmasthala mass burial case before the Belthangady court after taking him into custody.

The National Human Rights Commission on Friday said it has issued notices to the Maharashtra government and the state's police chief over reports that a 21-year-old man died after being allegedly beaten up in public by a group of people in a village in Jalgaon district.