Music composer A R Rahman, who was admitted to a corporate hospital here following dehydration, has returned home and is doing fine now, his family said on Sunday.

Renowned Odia poet and former bureaucrat Ramakanta Rath died at his residence in Kharvel Nagar area here on Sunday, family sources said. He was 90.

A man accused of raping a seven-year-old girl in Vibhutikhand area has been arrested after an encounter, a police official said on Sunday.

The search operation to locate seven persons trapped inside the partially collapsed Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) since February 22 gathered pace with teams and equipment went inside the tunnel on Sunday, official sources said.

Top music director A R Rahman has been admitted to a corporate hospital here and was doing fine, sources said on Sunday.

A Deputy General Manager of the Indian Oil Corporation has been arrested while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 2 lakh from a gas agency owner here, officials said.

 Three persons, including a minor, were killed when their motorcycle rammed into a stationary truck in Chhattisgarh's Balod district, police said on Sunday.

A man killed in a recent anti-Naxal operation in Madhya Pradesh’s Mandla district was a tribal and not a Maoist, an official has said.