Four officials and two workers were killed in an accident inside a furnace at a private steel plant in Chhattisgarh's capital Raipur on Friday, while six others, including a general manager, sustained injuries, police said.

Taking a veiled dig at actor-politician Vijay, Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin on Friday said he does not venture out for campaign or party work only on Saturdays and without naming TVK workers, said they had no clue about ideology.

The National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) on Friday welcomed the Karnataka High Court's ruling upholding its constitutional authority, saying justice has been delivered to displaced OBC farmers and their families.

Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Friday he has ordered the reopening of 12 tourist spots in Jammu and Kashmir which were closed in the wake of Pahalgam terror attack in April this year.

Organisers of a Durga Puja committee in Ranchi, which built their marquee on the theme of ‘Vatican City’, the centre of the Roman Catholic Church, took down the image of Jesus Christ from inside the pandal and replaced it with that of Lord Krishna on Friday.

 Four Naxalites, two of them carrying a collective bounty of Rs 9 lakh, were arrested from separate places in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, a police official said on Friday.

 Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Friday launched a scathing attack on the BJP-led central government, accusing it of "manipulating" GST in a way that burdens the common man while pretending to offer relief.

 Five workers were killed and as many injured when a structure collapsed at a private steel plant in Chhattisgarh's capital Raipur on Friday, police said.