Prime Minister Narendra Modi, often attacked by his critics for a spike in incidents of mob violence and rapes, ripped into his political rivals for their effort to "reduce these incidents" to "mere statistics" and indulge in politics.

Four people were killed and two others injured on Sunday during the construction of a sewage trench in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district, police said.

The heroics of a man saving a child in the flood-ravaged Idukki district in Kerala is going viral on social media. NDRF rescue officer Kanhaiya Kumar is seen running across a bridge that is getting battered by a fully charged river, and just seconds before it gets swept by the flow, the brave officer saves the child. In the image that is captured, Kanhaiya Kumar in a blue raincoat and umbrella is running across a bridge which stood in the middle of an overflowing river. The brave officer is elated with the response that the video has received so far.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday condoled the death of Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul, who shared ancestral roots with India.

Uttarakhand chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on Saturday said no slaughter houses would be allowed in the state nor would new licenses be issued.

The water level in Kerala's Idukki dam further decreased on Sunday and now stands at 2,399.28 feet even as parts of Ernakulam and Thrissur districts still remain submerged.

To encourage more passengers to travel in air-conditioned (AC) coaches or chair cars, the South Western Railway (SWR) has slashed fares in 5 express trains originating from Bengaluru, Gadag and Mysuru in Karnataka, said an official on Saturday.

A policeman was killed on Sunday in a gunfight between militants and the security forces here. Upon receiving a tip-off about the holed-up militants, the security forces cordoned off the Deyarwani locality in Batmaloo area.