In a dramatic rescue operation, a home guard in Tumakuru city, who was allegedly driven to attempt suicide due to workplace pressures imposed by his senior, was prevented from taking his own life by local fire brigade staff members and police officers.

Two authors of Indian heritage, UK-based Nandini Das and US-based Kris Manjapra, are among six worldwide writers on the shortlist unveiled here on Tuesday for the 2023 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, a leading international non-fiction prize worth GBP 25,000.

The Assam Assembly on Tuesday rejected by voice vote a private member's bill on preventing mob lynching as the state government said that offenders are dealt with relevant sections of existing criminal laws.

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Tuesday said Mughals, British and other rulers failed to wipe out the Sanatan Dharma from the country in the past, but eradicating it is now the agenda of the INDIA alliance, and hence Hindus need to wake up and show the opposition bloc its place.

The Congress Tuesday accused the BJP of making the "Parliament a one-sided partisan thing" amid reports that the ruling party's poll symbol 'Lotus' is being printed on the new uniform for Parliament staff.

Alleging that the Siddaramaiah-led Congress government in Karnataka has lost its popularity so soon after coming to power, veteran BJP leader B S Yediyurappa on Tuesday announced that his party leaders will travel across the state to protest against the "failures" of this administration.

With an aim to check the potential misuse of postal ballot facility extended to voters on poll duty, electoral rules have been changed to ensure that such people cast their vote at designated facilitation centres only and do not keep the ballot papers with them for a long time.

After two "unnatural deaths" were reported from Kozhikode district, the Kerala government has sent five samples to the National Institute of Virology in Pune to test for the presence of the deadly Nipah virus.