The United Arab Emirates and Qatar have announced the reopening of their embassies on Monday following a yearslong rift over Qatar's support of Islamist groups.

The Mumbai Police have registered an FIR against TV show "Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah" producer Asit Kumarr Modi and two others following a complaint of sexual harassment by a woman actor, a police official said on Tuesday.

The number of confirmed victims from one of the worst migrant shipwrecks in the Mediterranean rose to 81 Monday after three more bodies were found off southern Greece, as more survivors claimed that the battered trawler had been under tow by another vessel just before it sank with hundreds of people aboard.

Arrested Tamil Nadu Minister V Senthil Balaji will undergo a surgery for heart related ailment at a private hospital here on June 21, Health Minister Ma Subramanian said on Tuesday.

A young couple from Naroda area in Gujarat's Ahmedabad city who planned to enter the US illegally has been held hostage in Iran by a Pakistani agent who has sought money for their release, police said.

Bhopal: The National Security Act (NSA) has been invoked against a group of men who allegedly kept a man on a dog leash and abused him in Madhya Pradesh's Bhopal, state Home Minister Narottam Mishra said on Monday.

Patna, Jun 19: Former Bihar chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi's Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) on Monday withdrew its support to the Nitish Kumar government in the state and a letter to the effect was handed over to Governor Rajendra Arlekar.

Bhojpur/Patna, Jun 19: Five people died due to heat stroke in Bihar's Bhojpur district, officials said on Monday.