The Reserve Bank of India on Friday decided to keep the policy rate unchanged for the 11th time in a row but sharply lowered the GDP growth forecast to 6.6 per cent for the current fiscal, as against earlier projection of 7.2 per cent.

Three security personnel sustained minor injuries in an encounter with Naxalites in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, police said on Friday.

Justice Rohinton Nariman, former Supreme Court judge, has urged that the five pages of the Supreme Court's Ayodhya judgment affirming the Places of Worship Act, 1991, be read in every District Court and High Court across India. He stated that this would prevent frivolous suits against mosques and other religious structures.

The parents of the doctor, who was raped and murdered at state-run R G Kar Medical College and Hospital about four months back, on Thursday expressed unhappiness over the role of the opposition BJP in demanding justice for their daughter.

A 'jatha' (group) of 101 farmers will embark on a foot march to Delhi at 1 pm on Friday from their protest site at the Shambhu border on the Punjab and Haryana border.

Delhi Police has tightened security at borders ahead of the Punjab farmers' Friday march to the national capital.

At least 10 people died and around a dozen were left injured in separate road crashes in Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit and Chitrakoot districts early Friday, police said.

Hyderabad: A woman died and her son was hospitalised due to asphyxiation as crowds jostled at a film theatre here during the premiere show of actor Allu Arjun's "Pushpa 2: The Rule", police said on Thursday.