Kerala Minister Saji Cheriyan has harshly criticised the Constitution, saying it "condones exploitation" and is written in a way helping to "plunder" the people of the country, drawing sharp reaction from the opposition which sought for his immediate removal from the Pinarayi Vijayan-led LDF cabinet.

Noted Astrologer Chandrashekhar Guruji was on Tuesday murdered in a private hotel in Hubballi by two unidentified men who stabbed him in the hotel.

An altercation between young men which began due to a trivial issue on Monday night, ended with a youngster being stabbed to death near the KSRTC bus depot at Ponnodi in B.C Road.

 A two-wheeler rider reportedly died on the spot after a Lorry toppled over on top of his vehicle at the Padubidri junction during the afternoon hours on Tuesday. 

SpiceJet's Delhi-Dubai flight was diverted to Karachi on Tuesday as the fuel indicator started malfunctioning, officials of the aviation regulator DGCA said.

Daulat Desai, a 2008-batch IAS officer working as joint director in the Medical Education and Drugs Department (MEDD) in Maharashtra, has resigned from the elite service and put up a long post on a social media platform on Monday stating it was "quite depressing to lie dumped in the backyard".

The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday conducted searches at 44 places across the country in a money laundering investigation against Chinese smartphone manufacturing company Vivo and related firms, officials said.

A team of Raipur police from Chhattisgarh reached Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday to arrest TV news anchor Rohit Ranjan in connection with the airing of an alleged misleading news over a statement of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, police officials here said.