Nineteen Naxals including eight women surrendered Friday in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Sukma district, a police official said.

The Karnataka High Court on Friday gave a big relief to actor Arjun Sarja who was under threat of arrest.

Three persons, including a seven-month-old child, have tested positive for Zika in Madhya Pradesh, a central expert team, which had gone to the state Thursday to assess the cases, has confirmed.

Joining the chorus for the construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya, Union Minister Vijay Goel said Friday it should be done at the earliest even if a legislation is required.

Senior Congress leader and MLC CM Ibrahim said that the ruling BJP has no will power to solve Ayodhya issue.

Speaking to reporters here on Friday, he said that the BJP leaders have been asking votes in the name of Ram Mandir. Just constructing temples and masjids was not a religion, he said.

Prominent Pakistani cleric Maulana Samiul Haq, who was also known as the ‘Taliban leader’, was killed in a gun attack in the garrison city of Rawalpindi on Friday, according to media reports.

Fifteen people are feared dead after a bus in the Chinese city of Chongqing plunged from a bridge into the Yangtze River during a fight between the driver and a woman who missed her stop, police have said.

RJD chief Lalu Prasad's elder son Tej Pratap Yadav Friday filed a petition before a court here seeking divorce from his wife of six months, sources in the civil court said.