A couple was charred to death when the car in which they were travelling caught fire near the District Government hospital here on Thursday, police said.

Kerala Finance Minister K N Balagopal on Thursday said the Centre's imposition of cuts in the borrowing limit of the states would adversely impact the southern state's economy, which is yet to completely recover from the challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic and back-to-back natural disasters.

The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a plea seeking to prohibit an alleged hate speech event scheduled to be held on February 5 in Mumbai.

Opposition parties Thursday sought a debate in Parliament and a probe by a joint committee into the fraud-allegation-triggered rout in Adani group company stocks, forcing adjournment of proceedings in both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha in the pre-lunch session.

A local BJP leader was on Wednesday caught red-handed while he was traveling with a married woman. The husband of the woman caught him traveling with his wife and has filed a police complaint in this regard adding the BJP leader attempted to kill him.

The first state-level Yakshagana Sammelana to be held in Udupi will be inaugurated by Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on February 11.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2023 on Wednesday, February 1st, allocating nearly Rs 6 lakh crore ($8.1 billion) to the defence sector, with a capital outlay of Rs 1.62 lakh crore ($2.2 billion), a 12% increase from last year's Rs 1.44 lakh crore ($1.9 billion). The Ministry of Defence has been given a total budget of Rs 5,93,537.64 crore ($7.9 billion), which is 13.18% of the total budget and includes an amount of Rs 1,38,205 crore ($1.8 billion) for Defence Pensions.

Star India all-rounder Hardik Pandya feels he has developed the ability to absorb pressure and doesn't mind playing the anchoring role that the great Mahendra Singh Dhoni played for the team.