A tribal girl was allegedly raped by five men in Chhattisgarh's Raigarh district, police said Friday.

In one of his sharpest attacks yet on Narendra Modi, former prime minister Manmohan Singh said his successor's rule has not been good for India as he "failed" the electorate and led a government that was "mostly silent" on incidents of communal violence, mob lynching and cow vigilantism.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi Friday told those, who joined the protest against CBI Director Alok Verma being divested of his powers, that together "we will fight till the PM's corruption has been stopped".

A day after an eight-year-old madrasa student died during a scuffle between two groups of minor boys in south Delhi, police held a peace meeting in the area to thwart attempts to communalise the situation, police said Friday.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni was today dropped from India's 16-member teams for both the T20 International series against the West Indies and Australia later this year.

Flood-hit Kerala would need Rs 31,000 crore for rebuilding, a UN report said.

The swearing in of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa as Sri Lanka's new Prime Minister is "illegal and unconstitutional", sacked premier Ranil Wickremesinghe asserted Friday.

There's good news for the Congress from the two southern states, India Today's Political Stock Exchange survey shows.