Dehradun: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat Friday downplayed the nine deliveries by candlelight at a government hospital recently, saying it was an emergency.

Shivamogga: It seems the panic created by the Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD) in the Malnad region is not dying down as the death of monkeys continued today also. 

Kolkata: Kannada author Jayant Kaikini was Friday named the winner of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2018 for his translated work "No Presents Please".

Bantwala: "After Mughals, it is the Congress which looted the country most. Achhe Din is not for Congress. It is for the people of the country and it is being fulfilled in the regime of Narendra Modi", said Petroleum and Natural Gas Parliamentary Standing Committee chairman Prahlad Joshi.

Belthangady: A scooter rider died on the spot when a lorry rammed his vehicle near Koyyur cross in the town on Friday. 

Melbourne: Novak Djokovic on Friday continued his quest for a record seventh Australian Open crown by swatting aside French 28th seed Lucas Pouille 6-0, 6-2, 6-2 to set up a final against Rafael Nadal.

Bhubaneswar: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday charged that the RSS imprint was evident everywhere in the BJP-led NDA government and that the outfit wants to penetrate and control all institutions in the country.

The CBI has registered a new case against former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and others over alleged irregularities in land allocation in Gurgaon in 2009 and carried out searches at 20 locations in Delhi-NCR on Friday, officials said.