Travellers will soon be able to enter airports in the country with facial recognition biometric under the government's Digi Yatra initiative.

Two brothers have been shot dead in Thakurganj area here by some people due to old enmity, following which one accused has been arrested, police said on Thursday.

The Supreme Court Thursday dismissed a petition filed by the wife of arrested former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt challenging his arrest in a 22-year-old case of alleged planting of drugs to arrest an advocate.

A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices S K Kaul and K M Joseph said the petition can be moved before the Gujarat High Court.

Opener Prithvi Shaw (75*) scored an unbeaten half-century on his Test debut as India went into lunch with 133 runs on the board for the loss of one wicket on Day 1 of the first Test against the Windies at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Rajkot. Showing no signs of nerves in his first Test, 18-year-old Shaw looked in sublime touch, bringing up his fifty off just 57 deliveries, becoming the youngest player to score a half-century on debut for India.

Heavy rains lashed Puducherry and its outskirts affecting normal life Thursday morning. Most of most educational institutions in the union territory remained closed in view of the intermittent rains which started Wednesday night, officials said.

Bengaluru: We are thinking to take measures to build KR Market-like huge markets at Mysuru Road, Tumkur Road, and Hosur Road; informed Urban Development Minister Dr. G Parameshwar.

Teenager Prithvi Shaw became the youngest Indian to score a half-century on Test debut, living up to the hype about his talent and steering the team to 133 for one at lunch on day one of the series-opener against the West Indies here.

Do organizations say what they intend to do? Not necessarily. This came out clearly from the three long lectures by RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat. The event was supposed to be a dialogue, but the maximum of dialogue one could see was his answering few questions at the end of lectures. This normal practice of answering the questions was underlined strongly, as probably this must have been novel thing for this organization.