Indian Economist Dr Mohammed Nejatullah Siddiqui, who won the King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies in 1982, has passed away. He was 91.

There were at least 16 seats in the previous Assembly elections in Gujarat where the victory margin was less than 3,000 votes that affected the prospects of candidates from both the main parties - the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress - almost equally.

Three people were arrested from Bihar for posing as representatives of Patanjali Yog Gram in Uttarakhand's Haridwar and duping people seeking Ayurvedic treatment, police said on Saturday.

Former Gujarat minister Parshottam Solanki, seven-time MLA Kunwarji Bavaliya, Morbi 'hero' Kantilal Amrutiya, Indian cricketer Ravindra Jadeja's wife Rivaba and Gujarat AAP president Gopal Italia are among the 10 prominent candidates who will be in the fray in the first phase of Assembly elections to be held on December 1.

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Friday said termed the BJP dispensation in Uttar Pradesh a "government of scams" and claimed "it's business of lies" is beginning to get exposed.

India's first privately developed rocket -- Vikram-S -- is set for a November 15 launch on a sub-orbital mission with three payloads, Hyderabad-based space startup Skyroot Aerospace has announced.

An 11-year-old boy died and a teenager injured after part of a bus depot's compound wall collapsed on them at Jawhar in Palghar district of Maharashtra, police said on Saturday.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that a magistrate was arrested for "compromising his responsibility" in a case of sexual assault and murder of a 13-year-old girl in Darrang district.