Muzaffarnagar: Fourteen children were injured when a fire broke out in a madarsa at Shuru village in the district, police said Friday.

Chandigarh: Congress president Rahul Gandhi and party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra make a "great team" and would "wipe out" the Modi government in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh claimed Thursday.

Days after a carved stone pillar was vandalised at the UNESCO world heritage site at Hampi in Karnataka, four youth were arrested Thursday for their involvement in the incident, police said.

Playback singer Sonu Nigam has said he was hospitalised early this week due to a seafood allergy.

Sharing a picture of his swollen eye, the 45-year-old singer in an Instagram post wrote, "Thanks for your concern and love. Now that you know that I am returning back from Jeypore Orissa after managing a concert last night, I now don't mind sharing how I was the day before yesterday."

The Karnataka Sahitya Academy has announced the awards for the year 2018 to total ten persons. Dr BA Vivek Rai and five senior poets including HS Venkatesh Murthy was given ‘honorary award’, while Dr Purushottam Bilimale, Dr HL Pushpa, KC Shivappa and others were given ‘Sahitya Shri’ award.

 Operations at the Delhi airport saw massive disruption on Thursday as total 38 flights were diverted to nearby cities between 6 pm and 8.45 pm and several were facing departure delays of more than two hours due to severe rain and hailstorm in the national capital, according to officials.

A youth who sustained severe injuries after lightning strikes him down, died.on the way to hospital at Kukke Subramanya on Thursday evening.

Coining new acronyms for 'BC'and 'AD'--the two time periods, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday used them to take a swipe at the Congress, saying the opposition party has known only two phases--'Before Congress' and 'After Dynasty'.