Sanjay Chouhan, the screenplay writer of critically-acclaimed movies such as "Paan Singh Tomar" and "Sahib Biwi aur Gangster", has died, his friend and filmmaker Avinash Das said on Friday.

Foundation stones were laid on Friday for installing statues of Bengaluru founder Nadaprabhu Kempegowda and 12th century social reformer Basaveshwara in front of Vidhana Soudha, the seat of Karnataka legislature and secretariat here.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday flagged off the world's longest river cruise -- MV Ganga Vilas, which will cover 3,200 kilometres across 27 river systems in five states in India and Bangladesh in 51 days.

Former Haryana minister Mange Ram Rathi's son Jagdish Rathi has allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison here and six people, including INLD's state chief Nafe Singh Rathi, have been booked under the charges of abetment, police said on Thursday.

The last rites of veteran socialist leader and former Janata Dal (United) president Sharad Yadav will take place at his ancestral village in Madhya Pradesh's Narmadapuram district on Saturday, his close associate said here.

The IEEE BIT Student chapter was inaugurated at the International Seminar Hall on Bearys Knowledge Campus on Thursday.

At least ten persons were killed and several injured after a speeding bus collided with a truck in Maharashtra's Nashik district on Friday morning, police officials said.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has said the situation in Chausa in Buxar district, where a violent clash had taken place between farmers and police, was "under control".