England win toss, elect to bat against Sri Lanka

The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday raided the premises of Rajasthan Congress president Govind Singh Dotasra and party candidate from Mahua assembly seat as part of a money laundering investigation into the alleged exam paper leak case in the poll-bound state, official sources said.

A 26-year-old man allegedly set his mother on fire after quarreling with her on the issue of preparation of meal in Maharashtra's Raigad district, police said on Wednesday.

Israeli troops and tanks launched a brief ground raid into northern Gaza overnight into Thursday, the military said.

Five people were killed and 22 others injured when a speeding private bus overturned in Maharashtra's Beed district on Thursday morning, police said.

Some areas in the Indo-Gangetic basin in India have already passed the groundwater depletion tipping point and its entire northwestern region is predicted to experience critically low groundwater availability by 2025, according to a new report by the United Nations.

India requires a national security strategy, and while it may take time, the government should come out with a white paper on defence to make clear its thinking on important issues, former national security adviser (NSA) Shivshankar Menon said on Wednesday.

Had gateman Yashpal Singh, a retired army officer posted at one of the railway level crossings near Bhandai station, not acted in the nick of time and alerted his higher-ups, the fire in Patalkot Express coaches would have turned into a major tragedy on Wednesday afternoon.