Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi and urged him to provide Rs 20,000 crore for the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation project being built across the Godavari river.

 Persistently suffering "severe" air quality for third day in row, the National Capital Region's (NCR) dusty situation is likely to improve from Saturday onwards, Met official said on Friday.

Within hours of releasing his picture for public help, police here on Friday arrested the fourth suspect in senior journalist Shujaat Bukhari's murder.

Four men were arrested for stripping an "emotionally immature man", making his video and allegedly circulating it in social media in Nadia district of West Bengal, police said on Friday.

A team from The Elders -- an international NGO former by South African statesman Nelson Mandela comprising noted public figures -- has sought to meet Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and also proposed to visit a mohalla clinic here.

 Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Sunday chair the fourth meeting of the Governing Council of NITI Aayog at Rashtrapati Bhavan here, an offficial statement said on Friday.

The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Friday demanded an apology from the CIA for classifying it along with Bajrang Dal as "militant religious outfits" and threatened global protests if the tag is not removed.

Train services to Assam's Barak Valley, Mizoram and Tripura remained cut off on Friday due to fresh landslides in the Lumding-Badarpur hill section of Assam even as the Northeast Frontier Railway cancelled several trains.