Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Saturday initiated the breakthrough of a five-kilometre-long tunnel in Thane near Mumbai, marking a significant achievement in the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project.

Senior Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan on Saturday charged the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar with indulging in "corruption at the highest level" by leasing out 1,000 acres of land to a leading conglomerate at a throwaway price.

The Chhattisgarh High Court has acquitted an 83-year-old former bill assistant of the Madhya Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (MPSRTC), nearly four decades after he was caught allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 100, setting aside his conviction in the case in 2004 by a lower court.

The body of a researcher was found hanging from the ceiling of his hostel room in IIT-Kharagpur on Saturday, in the fifth suspected case of suicide at the premier institute this year, officials said.

Karnataka Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot has cautioned Chief Minister Siddaramaiah against including Christian identifiers with caste names like ‘Kumbara Christian’, ‘Kuruba Christian’ in the upcoming caste survey, saying it could cause "social disturbance, long term complications and irreparable damage" to the social fabric of the state.

The indefinite hunger strike by a Dhangar activist seeking inclusion of the community in the Scheduled Tribe category entered its fourth day on Saturday in Maharashtra's Jalna.

Seventeen years after the controversial Batla House encounter, student activists at Jamia Millia Islamia who sought to commemorate the incident have alleged police excesses during their protest on campus.

Israeli strikes killed at least 14 people overnight in Gaza City, said health officials, as Israel ramps up its offensive there and urges Palestinians to leave.