A day after a fire engulfed the children's ward of a medical college in Uttar Pradesh's Jhansi district killing 10 newborns, the state government Saturday announced Rs 5 lakh ex gratia to the parents of each deceased and also ordered a three-tier probe into the incident.

Hundreds of people protested in different parts of Imphal valley on Saturday after three bodies suspected to be of six persons missing were found from Jiribam district.

Maharashtra police investigating the murder of NCP leader Baba Siddique have uncovered new details linking Shubham Lonkar, the mastermind and a wanted suspect in the case, to allegedly planning a murder plot targeting Aftab Poonawala in Delhi. Lonkar is allegedly associated with jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi.

The Supreme Court has dismissed a review plea filed by Vedanta group against the closure of its copper smelting plant in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath on Friday said under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the efforts of the Namami Gange project, the once-polluted waters of the Ganga, considered unsafe even for bathing, have now become fit for rituals like 'aachman' (sipping holy water).

Seven people, including a newly-wed couple, returning from Jharkhand died while two others were injured when a car hit a tempo from behind while overtaking another vehicle, police said on Saturday.

In order to have 50 per cent students in universities, India needs to double the varsities’ strength to 2,500, NITI Aayog CEO BVR Subrahmanyam has said.

Indian students are being put off applying to UK universities, adding to their financial woes at a time when education institutions are already coping with constrained budgets, a new report into the stability of the higher education sector in England has revealed.