A team of US investigators have boarded the container ship manned by a 22-member Indian crew which crashed into a bridge in the US city of Baltimore and recovered its data recorder, a top official said on Wednesday as authorities probed the cause of the dramatic accident.

The Election Commission has issued a notification for the Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka, with 14 constituencies set for polling in the first phase. The nomination process begins today, March 28, and the last day for submission of nomination papers is April 4. Scrutiny of nominations will take place on April 5, and candidates can withdraw their nominations until April 8. Voting will be held on April 26, with results expected on June 4.

Three students allegedly stabbed their classmate after he refused to show his answer-sheet to them during a written examination of Class 10 in Bhiwandi town of Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Thursday.

The Madras High Court has dismissed a plea challenging the gap between the polling and counting dates in the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections 2024. The court stated that the plea did not address any public cause, and it could not direct the Election Commission of India (ECI) on how to conduct elections.

Policy scholar Yamini Aiyar has resigned as the President and Chief Executive of the Centre for Policy Research (CPR) following her recent article critiquing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's governance, which was published in The Economist.

US officials have expressed concern about the implications rippling beyond the immediate region after a key bridge harbouring America's largest vehicle handling port collapsed in Baltimore when a cargo ship crashed into it, even as experts predicted repercussions to be "modest and mainly localised".

In Dakshina Kannada, a district long dominated by the BJP, the upcoming election is shaping up to be a close contest with the Congress fielding former Union Minister and Senior Congress leader B Janardhan's Pujari disciple Padmaraj against the BJP's candidate, former army officer Captain Brijesh Chowta.

The lawyers associated with Aam Aadmi Party's legal cell on Wednesday staged protests outside various district courts in Delhi over arrest of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by the Enforcement Directorate.