The Supreme Court has upheld a decision of the Himachal Pradesh High Court, which said the candidates contesting panchayat elections were obligated to disclose information about the pending cases against them.

The houses of three suspected terrorists have been razed by authorities in the Kashmir Valley. It is seen as a crackdown on terrorism days after the dastardly Pahalgam attack in which 26 people were killed.

The Karnataka government has found that more than 23 percent of land ownership records in the state are still registered in the names of deceased individuals. This finding emerged as part of an ongoing campaign to link Aadhaar numbers with the Record of Rights, Tenancy and Crops (RTC) documents.

A massive explosion occurred at a firecracker factory here on Saturday with the sound of the blast echoing in around two-kilometre stretch, official sources said.

The mother of a 17-year-old boy involved in the Pune Porsche crash, in which two persons lost their lives, walked out of jail on Saturday, four days after the Supreme Court granted her interim bail.

Uncertainty looms large over the fate of 42,500 Indian Hajj pilgrims registered with private tour operators, as procedural lapses prevented the completion of formalities before the closure of Saudi Arabia's Hajj portal.

Tensions flared in the Johri Bazar area here as protesters gathered in large numbers late on Friday night, accusing BJP MLA Balmukund Acharya of raising slogans targeting a community and pasting an offensive poster inside the Jama Masjid, a charge the lawmaker denied categorically.

The Maharashtra Criminal Investigation Department has handed over the case papers related to the killing of Badlapur sexual assault case accused Akshay Shinde to the Mumbai Crime Branch, an official said.