Four people were killed and two others injured on Sunday during the construction of a sewage trench in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district, police said.

The heroics of a man saving a child in the flood-ravaged Idukki district in Kerala is going viral on social media. NDRF rescue officer Kanhaiya Kumar is seen running across a bridge that is getting battered by a fully charged river, and just seconds before it gets swept by the flow, the brave officer saves the child. In the image that is captured, Kanhaiya Kumar in a blue raincoat and umbrella is running across a bridge which stood in the middle of an overflowing river. The brave officer is elated with the response that the video has received so far.

Amid the growing debate over whether electronic voting machines (EVMs) are hackable or not, elections officials in the US are worried over the increasing "information warfare" as mid-term polls loom.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday condoled the death of Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul, who shared ancestral roots with India.

Fifty militants, including a Taliban key commander, surrendered to Afghan authorities in Badghis province on Sunday, a police spokesman said.

Eight people were killed and one other person injured after a small plane crashed in Indonesia's Papua province, an official said on Sunday.

About 40 per cent of young Chinese entrepreneurs are female, according to a new report. The report was based on a survey of 6,928 entrepreneurs aged 16 to 35 and was jointly published by the China Foundation for Youth Entrepreneurship and Employment and the Chinese Academy of Labour and Social Security, Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday.

Uttarakhand chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on Saturday said no slaughter houses would be allowed in the state nor would new licenses be issued.