Five persons, including a woman, died of suspected asphyxiation inside a septic tank of a house in Jashpur district of Chhattisgarh on Sunday.

Denying that it wanted a Bishop accused in the rape of a nun to step down, the Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) on Sunday said that law should take its course in the matter.

The rise in domestic fuel prices continued unabated on Sunday, with the price of petrol nearing the psychological Rs 90 a litre mark in Mumbai and the fuel selling at Rs 89.29 under the dynamic pricing regime.

Late Congress leader K. Karunakaran's son K. Muraleedharan on Sunday claimed that then Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao "ditched" his father and then Kerala Chief Minister after the 1994 ISRO espionage case.

The motorcycle used in the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh has been found, a senior official of Maharashtra Police’s Anti-Terrorism Squad said late Saturday evening.

Accusing the state's Congress government of encouraging radical elements, former Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday claimed there was a plot to assassinate him and his son Sukhbir Badal.

Observing that the Indian parliament has evolved as a democratic forum that listens and responds to diverse concerns, Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu has invoked first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in the Serbian parliament to highlight the importance of democracy for participatory development.

Embarrassed over the failure to arrest those involved in the alleged gang-rape of a board topper, the Haryana government on Sunday ordered the transfer of Rewari's Superintendent of Police (SP) and replaced him with another officer.