A boy suffered injuries after an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by Naxals went off in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, police said on Friday.

The US has sanctioned more than 50 entities, people and vessels including two Indian nationals for allegedly facilitating Iranian energy sales, in an attempt to dismantle "key elements" of Tehran's "energy export machine", according to an official statement.

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said that Kerala has become the first state to pass a Bill amending the Central Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.

About 30 e-mail bomb threats have been received in Chennai in the last one month, including the one targeting Press Trust of India (PTI) office here on Friday and all of them have turned out to be hoax, police said.

Sex education should be provided to children from a younger age, and not Class IX onwards, the Supreme Court has said.

The Election Commission on Friday said special arrangements will be made at polling stations in Bihar for "dignified" identification of women voters in burqa or purdah.

At least five people were killed and several others were injured after a house collapsed following a powerful explosion in Pagla Bhari village under the Pura Kalandar police station area of Ayodhya on Thursday, officials said.

South Africa trumped Richa Ghosh’s vibrant 94 through collective combativeness of Laura Wolvaardt and Nadine de Klerk to eke out a thrilling three-wicket win over India in the Women’s World Cup here on Thursday.