The Supreme Court has allowed the sale of Saridon and two other drugs for now after the government had banned 328 combination drugs last week. The top court's order comes on a petition filed by the drug makers.

There is a voter in Telangana who is 2,017 years old, or so claims the Congress. The grand old party has alleged that the voters’ list released by the Election Commission of India for Telangana has about 21,000 voters aged between 100 and 2,017 years!

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will embark on a two-day visit to Varanasi, his Lok Sabha constituency, on Monday to celebrate his 68th birthday.

The government opposed what it called the Supreme Court's "interference" in  the case of the five rights activists under house arrest, accused of Maoist links. The top court was hearing a petition seeking their release.

Candidates sitting in a competitive exam for clerical posts in Gujarat's Gandhinagar civic body were asked a question related to Patidar leader Hardik Patel on Sunday.

Two cinema theatres were gutted in a huge fire here on Monday, police said. There were no casualties. A short circuit is suspected to have caused the fire in the Kanya and Sree Kanya theatres located in the same building at Gajuwaka area.

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday left for Jammu and Kashmir to inaugurate two pilot projects of "smart" border fencing built under the Comprehensive Integrated Border Management System (CIBMS) programme.

TechMahindra has fired a diversity officer accused of making statements derogatory to homosexuals and Islam, the company announced in a tweet late Saturday.