Actor-producer Akshay Kumar, who is busy promoting his forthcoming sports-drama film "Gold", says he would like to make biopic on life of Indian sprinter Hima Das who became the first Indian athlete to win a gold in a track event at just 18 year of age.

As Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan-led LJP turned up the heat on Modi government over the appointment of A.K. Goel as NGT chairman and demanded his removal by August 9, the Congress while welcoming his move said he can't stay silent now as he has to do the politics of backward classes.

Digital payments company Paytm on Saturday said that it will build a "New Retail" model to equip shopkeepers with technology, logistics and marketing capabilities.

Police arrested a 17-year-old burglar last weekend after he entered an occupied residence overnight and awakened the sleeping residents. Officers later connected him to a nearby bicycle theft that had occurred the same night.

 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that an era of honesty has been ushered in the country in the past few years, and people are paying more taxes and forfeiting subsidies as they are sure that every bit of their money will be used rightly.

Former Chief Minister and the chairman of the Coordination Committee Siddaramaiah has said that the Congress leaders and activists should be prepared to tackle the communal virus that has become a challenge for the party in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.

Flowers offered at the dargah of Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Hasan Chishti in Ajmer city in Rajasthan will be used for making organic compost, the shrine's management said on Saturday.

Ahead of the general elections next year, senior Congress leader and former Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Saturday urged his party cadres in Karnataka to strengthen their presence in every poll booth.