The Supreme Court Monday dismissed a plea seeking a direction to the Election Commission (EC) to advance poll timings to 5:30 am from 7 am for the seventh phase of Lok Sabha polls in view of searing heat and the month of Ramzan.

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence has arrested a Thiruvananthapuram native, who was smuggling around 25 kg gold from a Gulf country.

Bengaluru: Senior Congress leader and chairman of alliance government’s co-ordination committee has expressed his displeasure over criticism by JD(S) national president H Vishwanath.

Praising Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan for her "dedication" towards work, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday said that she was the only BJP leader who could admonish him.

The Sri Lankan government Monday blocked social media following rising tensions between the minority Muslims and majority Sinhalese in the wake of the Easter Sunday bombings which killed nearly 260 people.

Mangaluru: In the backdrop of severe water shortage in the Thumbe vented dam that supplies drinking water to the city, Mangaluru City Corporation will resort to water rationing from Monday.

Makkal Needhi Maiyam (MNM) founder Kamal Haasan has stoked a possible controversy, saying free India's first "terrorist was a Hindu," referring to Nathuram Godse who killed Mahatma Gandhi.