In a significant judgment, the Kalaburagi Bench of the Karnataka High Court has upheld the death sentence awarded to two brothers convicted of killing their sister in an alleged case of honour killing. The court also confirmed life imprisonment for five other members of the same family.

Vice President C P Radhakrishnan arrived in Bihar's capital Patna on Saturday to visit the ancestral house of Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan in Sitab Diara in Saran district on the occasion of the 123rd birth anniversary of the socialist icon.

A group of Youth Congress and Yuva Morcha activists, who allegedly gathered here to protest against Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, were taken into preventive custody in this central Kerala district on Saturday, police said.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to clarify his position on the absence of women journalists from a press conference of visiting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, and described the incident as an "insult to some of India's most competent women".

 The Samajwadi Party (SP) has claimed that its president Akhilesh Yadav's official Facebook account has been suspended and accused the BJP government of imposing an "undeclared emergency" to suppress every opposing voice.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday paid tributes to Jayaprakash Narayan, noted freedom fighter who led the movement against Emergency, and Nanaji Deshmukh, Jana Sangh leader and social activist, on their birth anniversaries.

A crack in the windshield of an aircraft belonging to a private airline carrying 76 passengers from Madurai was detected by the pilot ahead of its landing at the airport here on Saturday, authorities said.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested the CFO of industrialist Anil Ambani's group company Reliance Power in a money laundering case linked to issuance of an alleged fake bank guarantee of Rs 68 crore, official sources said on Saturday.