The police have registered a case against cricketer S Sreesanth and two others based on a cheating complaint filed by a man in this north Kerala district.

An apparently inebriated 16-year-old stabbed another teen more than 55 times, slit his throat, dragged the body through the street and did a jig while he carried out the grisly crime in east Delhi's Welcome colony earlier this week, police said on Thursday.

The mortal remains of Captain M V Pranjal who was killed during an encounter with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir, will be flown in here on Thursday evening, defence sources said.

Union minister Giriraj Singh has written to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, saying halal business is "treason" in a secular democracy and advocating an Uttar Pradesh like ban on the production, storage, distribution and sale of food products with halal certification in the state.

A cardiothoracic surgeon suffered injuries in an accident while travelling with a medical team in an airport-bound ambulance carrying harvested lungs from a hospital near Pune for transplant on a patient in Chennai, but chose to ignore his own pain and performed the lifesaving surgical procedure hours later, showing an exemplary commitment to his duty.

An iron mesh which came in the way of the auger machine drilling through the rubble at Silkyara tunnel to create an escape passage for the trapped workers has been removed, officials said on Thursday.

A fire broke out in a 24-storey residential building in Mumbai on Thursday following which at least 135 people were safely rescued from there, civic officials said.

Uttarkashi: A 15-man strong NDRF team led by a commandant has been tasked to take out one by one the 41 labourers stuck for the last 10 days in the collapsed Silkyara Tunnel in Uttarkashi.