Bengaluru: Sports department, police department and Yuvajana felicitated the Kabaddi Champion, who clinched a silver medal in women’s Kabaddi at the Asian Games in Jakarta on Friday.

M.K.Stalin on Tuesday was elected as the DMK President unopposed at the party's General Council meeting held here.

Stalin, 65, becomes the second President of one of the oldest political party in the country, a post held by his late father and five times Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.Karunanidhi for 49 years.

Shira: Three persons died on the spot and several others injured in a collision between a KSRTC bus and a private bus on NH 48 near Kallambella police station in Tumkur this morning.

Palestinians were able to use the Erez crossing point between the Gaza Strip and Israel on Monday for the first time since it was closed over a week ago due to recent protests and clashes along the frontier of the blockaded territory.

In a rare, benevolent gesture, two Supreme Court judges on Monday sang at a cultural programme organised by apex court journalists in Delhi to raise money for relief and rehabilitation of people in flood-ravaged Kerala.

Pointing out that the seas around India have nurtured its links of commerce and culture with its extended neighbourhood over millenia, Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday said that nurturing a climate of peace and stability in this region is an important priority for New Delhi's foreign policy.

Heavy rains hit Gurugram on Tuesday that led to the disruption of road traffic and paralysed normal life.

Light rains started at around 2 a.m., but it gained momentum by 4 a.m. and between 6 to 8 a.m., it turned into heavy downpour, A.R.S. Sangwan, Deputy Director National Capital Region, told IANS.

Indian athletes Dutee Chand and Hima Das qualified for the women's 200 metres semi-finals at the 18th Asian Games here on Tuesday.