An FIR has been registered by the Bengaluru Police against a Bangladeshi journalist and a woman staffer of an Indian news portal for allegedly spreading fake news and misinformation about Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia Gandhi, both senior Congress leaders.

Due to heavy rain and water logging over tracks at many places locations under South Western Railway's (SWR) jurisdiction, the East Central Railway on Monday cancelled several trains on Monday.

Alleging that the NDA governments at the Centre and in Bihar were against caste census and  caste census, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday asserted that such an enumeration was "like an X-ray", ascertaining population of various caste groups and their socio-economic conditions.

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the West Bengal government's plea challenging the Calcutta High Court's order granting bail to one of the organisers of the August 27 march to the state secretariat to protest against a trainee woman doctor's rape and murder.

Eleven candidates died while undertaking physical tests during a drive to recruit excise constables in Jharkhand, police said on Sunday.

Russian emergency officials said on Monday they had recovered all 22 dead from a helicopter that crashed with tourists on board in Russia's Far East.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday accused the BJP government of being a "mute spectator" in the face of "continuous attacks" on minorities, especially Muslims, and demanded the strictest action against "anarchist elements" behind such incidents.

The Bhadravati Forest Department has arrested four individuals on charges of hunting a Sambar deer. The arrested individuals include Shiva (28) and Venkatesh (60) from Gondi village in Bhadravati taluk, and Manjappa (45) and Vinod (19) from Chaudikatte Bhairapura village in Chikkamagaluru.