Retired IAS officer and former Karnataka Chief Secretary K Ratna Prabha has categorically denied joining the BJP in light of multiple reports suggesting she has joined the Opposition party in the state.

A crucial meeting of the Telangana cabinet was underway on Sunday amid talks that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao was planning to dissolve the state Assembly to go for early polls.

Three accused in journalist Gauri Lankesh murder case were conspirators in the Narendra Dabholkar murder too, and one of them imparted weapon-training to Dabholkar's shooters, the CBI told a court here Saturday.

A woman on Sunday became the latest victim of leptospirosis in the flood-battered Kerala, taking the death toll due to the rat fever outbreak to 15 even as Health Minister K.K. Shailaja assured that there was no need to panic.

Human rights activist and petitioner in the Major Leetul Gogoi case Ahsan Untoo on Saturday sought a proper investigation into the matter to explore the human trafficking angle. He also informed that the Indian Army's Court of Inquiry (CoI) has ordered the police to investigate the case and submit a detailed report by September 18.

Google is removing over 100 scam advertisements every second for violating its policies and will soon implement a verification programme to further weed out bad actors from its platform.

A helicopter crashed on Sunday near an Afghan army base in Balkh province, a military spokesman said.

"The incident occurred at 7.55 a.m. near army Corps 209 Shaheen on the outskirts of provincial capital Mazar-i-Sharif. The chopper crashed shortly after taking off from the base and an investigation has been launched into the incident," the spokesman told Xinhua news agency.

Three youth died when their two wheelers collided each other on bypass road in the town on Saturday night. The deceased are identified as Harshit Reddy (24) of Rayavara village and Naveen Kumar (22) of Doddapalanahalli who were on their friend's marriage from Bengaluru to Koratagere, died on the spot.