A 55-year-old man has died by suicide at Edkidu in Bantwal taluk, and his family has now raised suspicions about the circumstances surrounding his death. The deceased has been identified as Harish, a resident of Edkidu. 

 Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Johannesburg on Friday to attend the G20 Leaders' Summit being held under South Africa’s Presidency.

Security forces on Friday foiled a potential terror plot by recovering a cache of arms and ammunition, including two M-series assault rifles, from a hideout near the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district, police said.

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Friday made a surprise visit to the Bengaluru Central Jail and met jailed Congress MLAs Vinay Kulkarni and K C Veerendra alias Puppy.

In a verdict aimed at safeguarding the world's oldest mountain systems, the Supreme Court has accepted a uniform definition of the Aravali Hills and Ranges and banned grant of fresh mining leases inside its areas spanning Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan and Gujarat until experts' reports are out.

Nearly 24,000 of the over two lakh postal ballots were rejected when votes of the Bihar assembly elections were counted, Election Commission data shows.

Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin on Friday called Sanskrit "a dead language," drawing a sharp response from the BJP which said leaders must be more responsible while making remarks.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday asserted that he would continue in office and also present state budgets in the future.