Directing all the states to comply with its directions on the case, the apex court said the home secretary of the defaulting state will have to appear in person if the report is not filed within the given timeframe.

 A 26-year-old man was lynched to death and two others were injured by a mob in Jharkhand’s Palamu district on the suspicion of being thieves, police said on Thursday.

In a first for student politics in Chandigarh-based Panjab University, Kanupriya was on Thursday declared elected as the first woman President of the PU Campus Students Council (PUCSC).

Patidar agitation spearhead Hardik Patel was on Friday rushed to a hospital on the 14th day of his indefinite fast as he complained of difficulty in breathing.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that the government will soon put in place a new stable policy regime to promote the use of electric and other alternative-fuel vehicles in the country to fight climate change.

Financially troubled Jet Airways on Thursday said that it is in talks with pilots and other employees to resolve salary disbursement issues.

The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Centre on three pleas challenging the recent amendment to the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, restoring the provision mandating immediate arrest in the event of a complaint.

A pregnant woman in Andhra Pradesh’s Vijayanagaram district delivered a baby in open while she was en route a hospital on a makeshift cloth stretcher due to non-availability of road and vehicle in the area. A video tweeted by news agency ANI shows a group of men and women walking cautiously in a forested area on a road full of mud and stones, carrying the pregnant woman in the makeshift stretcher to reach the hospital that was 7 kilometres away.