The body of a 35-year-old man who died in the recent boat tragedy off Mozambique coast was brought to his native place in this district on Saturday, relatives said.

A speeding car ran over pedestrians, killing five people and leaving two injured, police here said on Saturday.

A low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm by the morning of October 27, IMD said on Friday.

Kerala's ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) faces turmoil as its key ally, the CPI, launched a full-blown revolt on Friday against the lead partner CPI(M) over the state General Education Department's decision to join the PM SHRI Schools scheme, which was signed a day ago.

A former local committee secretary of the CPI(M) was found dead at the party office in a town in Ernakulam district on Friday, police said.

 A special commemorative coin of Rs 200 denomination was released here by Union Culture Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Friday as a tribute to the remarkable victory of Rani Chennamma at Kittur over 200 years ago.

In a tragic twist of fate, two namesake friends who had shared a decades-long bond were travelling with their families on the same bus that caught fire, leaving 20 dead in Kurnool district on Friday.

Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the birthplace of socialist icon Karpoori Thakur, the Congress on Friday took a swipe at the PM and asked whether it is not an acknowledged fact that the Jan Sangh brought down Thakur's government in Bihar in April 1979 when the-then CM introduced reservation for OBCs.