As many as 103 Naxalites, 49 of them carrying a collective bounty of more than Rs 1 crore, surrendered before authorities in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh on Thursday, a police official said.

RSS workers "trespassed" into the premises of a government school here on Thursday and they were detained and later released, police said.

AICC general secretary K C Venugopal on Thursday accused the Centre of political discrimination towards Kerala for not granting the amount sought for rehabilitation of disaster-hit Wayanad.

Claiming that there is a "wholesale attack on the democratic system" in India currently, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said allowing different traditions to thrive is important for the country, as "we cannot do what China does, which is to suppress people and run an authoritarian system".

The clamour for a judicial inquiry into the recent violence here, which left four people dead and scores injured, grew louder on Thursday, with two powerful Buddhist religious bodies and the Kargil Bar Association pressing the demand.

 A general council member of the Ladakh Buddhist Association (LBA) has committed suicide by hanging himself at his residence, its president Chering Dorjay Lakruk said on Thursday.

The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls across all states in the near future will witness a trend akin to Bihar where lakhs of deceased persons were removed from the voter list after several years.

A shocking incident has emerged from Haridwar, Uttarakhand, where a pregnant woman was forced to deliver her child on the floor of a women’s hospital after allegedly being denied admission and medical care.