Of over 60 lakh children aged 6-13 who were reckoned as 'out of school' in 2014, more than 75 per cent belonged SC, ST and other minority groups, the Lok Sabha was told on Monday.

A mini tractor and a hut were gutted in fire due to an electric short circuit at Naduvalapalya near Gubbi taluk this morning.

The hut engulfed when the fire broke out from a transformer near the hut. The intensity of the fire was such that a nearby-parked tractor too came in the folds of the fire flames. Luckily, no one was present in the hut during the incident. The fire tenders arrived at the spot and doused the flames.

Facebook-owned WhatsApp on Tuesday rolled out its group calling feature -- for both voice and video options -- on iOS and Android devices for its 1.5 billion users.

The concept of small states is not impractical. Several analysts have often opined that small countries and small states are conducive to progress and are more manageable than the large ones. Many political experts have also seen how smaller states have been able to make comprehensive improvement right from base level to upwards. So, when a cry for separate state arises, one need not dismiss it without a thought. In the last four decades, the number of states has always been increasing in India.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday slammed Prime Minister, saying the journalists reporting the Rafale scam are being threatened.

Four labourers working on laying 4G cables for a private telecom company were buried alive in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district late on Monday, police said on Tuesday.

Six people, including a soldier and four militia men, were killed on Tuesday when a powerful bomb apparently rigged to a vehicle exploded in the southern Philippines island of Basilan.

A two-wheeler rider died on the spot when a jeep ran over him after he fell down on the road, near Neralekere Gate in Nagamangala taluk on Monday.