Central government should in bipartisan manner provide financial assistance to Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand where cloudbursts and accompanying landslides and floods have claimed nearly two dozen lives and several are still missing, Congress leader Pramod Tiwari demanded in Rajya Sabha on Friday.

The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed a plea by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's close aide Bibhav Kumar challenging his arrest in connection with the alleged assault on AAP MP Swati Maliwal at the CM's residence.

 Four members of a family died when the roof of their house collapsed in Chinnavangali village in Nandyal district, a police official said on Friday.

The Chief Secretary of the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi, Naresh Kumar, informed the Supreme Court that Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena was not made aware of the necessity to obtain the court's permission for felling trees in the southern Ridge area. This statement was made in an affidavit filed in response to a contempt petition against the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) for illegally cutting trees in the region.

Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao has accused the Governor of acting as a puppet of the Central Government against Chief Minister Siddaramaiah concerning the alleged Mysuru land allotment case

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Karnataka Police has filed its first chargesheet in the case involving the former Janata Dal (Secular) MP Prajwal Revanna naming his parents and six others. The charges relate to the alleged kidnapping of a sexual assault victim, who was employed as a domestic worker in the Revanna household.

The Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) has confirmed that the obscene videos found on a pen drive in the Prajwal Revanna sex scandal case are authentic and have not been altered. The Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigating the case had sent the videos to FSL for verification.

An accurate early warning system that correlates rainfall and the potential for landslides. That is the imperative, say experts as rains create havoc in hills across India and the toll mounts in Kerala’s Wayanad slopes where landslides buried entire homesteads and possibly hundreds of people.