Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation on Thursday at 8 pm, the PMO has said. "Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi will be addressing the nation at 8 PM today," it said in a tweet. 

Nearly 43,000 people have so far been evacuated from flood-hit and rain-affected areas of Karnataka, where the rain fury has left nine people dead, authorities said on Thursday.

The JD(S) on Thursday hit out at the BJP government in Karnataka on the issue of tackling the flood situation, alleging it could not deploy helicopters to evacuate affected people but had arranged special planes to ferry rebel MLAs to Mumbai.

Maryam Nawaz, Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's daughter, was arrested here on Thursday in a money laundering case while she was visiting her jailed father, an official said.

Pakistan has suspended the Samjhauta Express train service with India, Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed announced on Thursday, a day after Islamabad downgraded the diplomatic ties with New Delhi.

The Supreme Court Thursday asked 'Ram Lalla Virajman', one of the parties in the politically sensitive Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute at Ayodhya, as to how the birth place of the deity can be regarded as a "juristic person" having stakes in the case.

Bantwal: Heavy rains continued to lash Dakshina Kannada District for fifth consecutive day on Thursday, with torrential rains were reported from various parts of the District on Wednesday night and Thursday morning. Power supply in Bantwal also took hit due to heavy rain on Thursday morning as power supply remained disrupted.

Mangaluru: An Air India Express Flight heading towards Mangaluru International Airport from Dubai International Airport was forced to land at Coimbatore Airport due to bad weather conditions in Mangaluru.