Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said a major healthcare initiative to give medical insurance cover to 50 crore Indians will roll out from September 25 -- the 102nd birth anniversary of Bharatiya Jana Sangh founder Deendayal Upadhyay.

Four persons injured when the car they were travelling in toppled after hitting a road divider at the dangerous curve in Talapady on the national highway.

Courts has been issuing directions time and again to bring in reforms into police department. But common people have been losing trust in the system with every passing day. Custody deaths would turn into questions of efficiency of the police, and the media would report police brutality as and when they happened. 

Repeating the words used last year on Jammu and Kashmir, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said Kashmir's problems can be resolved only by embracing its people, not with bullets or abuses.

The vehicular movement on the Shiradi Ghat and Sampaje Ghat has completely been stopped following the heavy rainfall in these regions, informed DK Deputy Commissioner Sasikanth Senthil.

Heavy rains again hit Kerala on Wednesday killing four more people and taking the death toll to 43 since August 8.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday announced a manned mission to space by 2022.

Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy on Wednesday unfurled the tricolour here to mark the 72nd Independence Day celebrations.