Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Skill India programme by linking it with the Rafale deal, saying that the offset contract was given to a private company with no skills of making aircraft while millions of skilled youths face unemployment.

As rains subsided in Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday, the evacuation of over 1,500 tourists still stranded in snow-marooned Lahaul-Spiti district continued on a war footing, an official said.

The Uttar Pradesh police have lodged an FIR against former Member of Parliament Divya Spandana ( Ramya), who is in charge of social media and digital communications wing of the Congress for tweeting an offensive photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Rafale deal controversy.

While the four judges out of a five-justice bench have upheld the Aadhaar project and the Aadhaar Act as constitutionally valid, dismissing most privacy and welfare exclusion concerns, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud’s dissenting opinion goes sharply in the other way.

Sporadic incidents of violence and vandalism were reported from some West Bengal districts on Wednesday during the BJP sponsored 12-hour shut down in the state. Normal life though remained largely unaffected in the capital city and adjoining suburbs.

Over 21.08 crore permanent account numbers (PANs) have been linked with Aadhaar till now, a latest data revealed as the Supreme Court upheld the validity of the linkage between the two databases Wednesday.

A man was badly beaten by a group of villagers for fishing near a temple in Rajasthan’s Chittorgarh district last week and succumbed to his injuries in hospital. Police have registered a case of murder against unidentified people but are yet to arrest anyone.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea challenging the appointment of Justice Ranjan Gogoi as the next Chief Justice of India.