Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said that there was no need for a "knee jerk" reaction due to high prices of global crude oil.

“One year has gone after my birth in Gauri. I am walking as if a new-born baby which has all pain, injustice and frustration, tells me to do so”, said noted actor and director Prakash Rai.

Army chief General Bipin Rawat said on Wednesday that if Pakistan stops cross border terrorism, India will have no hesitation in extending its hand of friendship to it.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg on Wednesday appeared before the US Congress, admitting to the lawmakers that they were "too slow to act" and "ill-prepared" to tackle foreign interference on their platforms.

The Maharashtra Police on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that five rights activists, who have been kept under house arrest, belong to banned terrorist outfit Communist Party of India (Maoist) and are engaged in planning and execution of large-scale violence, having the potential of destabilizing the society.

The Delhi Waqf Board on Wednesday suspended its section officer K. Alam Farooqi over the 2016 alleged sale of a portion of Chirag Delhi dargah to a private dealer in connivance with Board officials.

Human rights activist Swami Agnivesh said that “if the people who are raising their voice in favour of the oppressed classes are branded as ‘urban naxals’, then we are ready to become naxals”.

Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje has promised to provide a smartphone and a Wi-Fi connection each to the beneficiaries of Bhamashah Scheme in Rajasthan.