Neeraj Arora, WhatsApp's chief business officer, said he is leaving the popular messaging service, joining a stream of top executives who have departed Facebook and its group companies in the past year.

Two persons were injured when a fire broke out at a slum in suburban Bandra on Tuesday, a fire brigade official said. Around 15 huts were also gutted in the fire, he said.

RBI Governor Urjit Patel Tuesday appeared before a parliamentary panel to brief on demonetisation and NPA situation in the public sector banks, among other issues, sources said.

Former MLA of Hassan Constituency HS Prakash breathed his last at a private hospital in Bengaluru today. He was 67.

Prakash, who was admitted to the BGS Globes Hospital in Kengeri due to age-related ailments, stopped responding to the treatment and breathed his last.

 In apparent reference to the recent spat between the government and the Reserve Bank, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu Tuesday said there should be a regular dialogue between the two in the boardroom to arrive at solutions to address problems affecting economy.

Three unidentified militants and a soldier were killed while two jawans were injured in two separate encounters in Jammu and Kashmir's Kulgam and Pulwama districts on Tuesday, police said.

The language our PM and some Congress politicians are using during election rallies in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chattisgarh does not befit the office each one of them holds. Some irresponsible Cong MLAs asked sarcastically about the father of PM Modi. This is highly condemnable. But the person who set the use of such language into motion is PM himself. The run up to 2014 elections he had referred to Sonia Gandhi as Jersey cow and Rahul Gandhi as the hybrid calf. Actually none of the Congress leaders have brought down the level of discourse to as worse as Modi did.

A fire broke out in the front coach of Kalka-Howrah train on Tuesday but no one was injured in the incident, a Railway Police official said.