New Delhi: BJP’s Raja Iqbal Singh was elected as Delhi’s new mayor on Friday, marking the saffron party’s return to power in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) after two years.

New Delhi: The Delhi Police released social activist Medha Patkar from its custody seven hours after her arrest on Friday in connection with a 24-year-old defamation case filed by Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena, officials said.

Shivpuri (MP): A heavy metal object suspected to have fallen from an Indian Air Force (IAF) aircraft caused severe damage to a house in Pichhore town of Madhya Pradesh on Friday but nobody was injured in the incident, police said.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday called up the chief ministers of all the states and asked them to ensure that no Pakistani stays in India beyond the deadline set for leaving the country, sources said.

The Uttar Pradesh police have arrested four men for allegedly running their SUV over a group of Dalits, who objected to their rash driving in Bulandshahr.

Asaduddin Owaisi, the chief of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), has called for strong and decisive action against Pakistan in the aftermath of the Pahalgam attack and expressed his support for the government's decision to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty.

Former Army chief General Shankar Roychowdhury (Retd) on Friday said the Pahalgam terror attack was due to "intelligence failure" and demanded accountability at the highest levels.

The Supreme Court on Thursday proposed that a minimum percentage of votes should be mandated even in cases where a candidate is elected unopposed. The two-judge bench, comprising Justice Surya Kant and Justice N.K. Singh, raised this suggestion while hearing a petition filed by the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy.