The government on Friday reiterated its firm stand on data privacy and against online platforms abusing data to impact free choice in India.

The Indian Railways is creating a buzz with its "Plan Bee" to tackle a mammoth problem at a meagre cost: It has installed devices which mimic the humming of a swarm of bees to keep elephants off the tracks to avert accidents.

Congress on Friday demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi must break his silence on rising fuel prices and falling value of the rupee against the dollar and said "he owes an explanation to the country in this gloomy scenario".

Even as it condemned Pakistan Army chief General Qamar Jawed Bajwa for "vowing to avenge bloodshed on the border", the Congress on Friday endorsed Pakistans move to open Kartarpur corridor for Sikh pilgrims.

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday sought assistance from overseas Pakistanis to help overcome the "biggest issue" of water crisis in the country by donating to the dams fund set up by the Supreme Court.

The Board of cash-strapped IL&FS has sought immediate financial support from its key shareholders, sources said.

The BJP on Friday slammed Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu for praising Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on the issue of opening of the Kartarpur corridor to enable devotees pay obeisance at a gurdwara associated with the first Sikh Guru Nanak Dev. The praise was an "insult to India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi".

An Air India flight on Friday landed on a runway which was not commissioned at Velana International Airport, Male, Maldives.