Noida: The owner of a private bus here claimed that he had been issued a fine of Rs 500 allegedly because the driver was "not wearing a helmet".

Shahjahanpur (UP): BJP leader Swami Chinmayanand, accused of rape by a law student, was on Friday arrested and sent to 14 days' judicial custody, and has apparently told the police he was sorry for his behaviour.

New Delhi: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti has asked the government to provide details about people detained since August 5, including children and women, and those who are lodged in jails outside the state.

Lucknow: Terming the National Register of Citizens (NRC) a medium to instil fear, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday said if it is implemented in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath would have to leave the state.

Mumbai: Markets roared back to life on Friday, with the Sensex posting its biggest single-day jump in over a decade at 1,921 points and investors' wealth soaring by a staggering Rs 6.8 lakh crore, after the Finance Minister delivered a surprise cut in corporate tax rates.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday termed as "historic" the cut in corporate tax rates and asserted that economic announcements made in the last few weeks show that his government is leaving no stone unturned to make India a better place to do business.

Normal life was affected in parts of Assam on Friday as a students' union observed a 12- hour bandh in the state over exclusion of members of an indigenous group from the final NRC.

Raghu Karnad, The Wire‘s consulting editor and former bureau chief, on Thursday received the Windham-Campbell prize at Yale University in the US for his book Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War.