BJP President Amit Shah on Thursday announced an election management committee for the Assembly elections due in Rajasthan later this year, the party said.

Third Additional District Sessions Court on Thursday issued a non-bailable warrant against Nithyananda Swami of Nithyananda Dhyana Peetha of Bidadi as he has failed to attend the court in a rape case.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday advised against use of "complex technical terms" in Hindi, saying the language instead should be spread through day-to-day conversation.

Eleven-year-old Kamal Kishore Das braved the strong current of a swollen Brahmaputra river and put his life in danger by jumping into it thrice within 20 minutes even after safely reaching the bank, to save his mother and aunt.

US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and Defence Secretary Jim Mattis called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday following the first ever India-US 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue.

The Congress on Thursday condemned Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao's decision to dissolve the Telangana assembly, terming it "undemocratic" and said the party was ready for early elections. It called KCR "a dictator more than Hitler" and noted that he was acting as a puppet of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Sporadic violence and partial disruption of road and rail traffic on Thursday marred the Bharat bandh called to protest against the changes made in the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

Interpol has issued a 'red corner notice' (RCN) against Mumbai-based fugitive Mihir Rashmi Bhansali, an accused in the multi-crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) loan fraud case involving his employer Nirav Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi.