Ten government hospitals in Delhi have begun an indefinite strike, halting all elective services on Monday, in response to the recent rape and murder of a resident doctor in Kolkata.

Seven young men, including three cousins, drowned while taking a bath in a river in Rajasthan's Bharatpur on Sunday, police said.

At least seven people, including six women, were killed and 16 others injured in a stampede at Baba Siddheshwar Nath Temple in Bihar's Jehanabad district, an official said on Monday.

Kolkata: The Border Security Force (BSF) has apprehended 11 Bangladeshis while they were trying to sneak into the Indian soil during a special drive on the International Borders along West Bengal, Tripura, and Meghalaya with the neighboring country.

Lucknow: Seeking to make changes in the process of granting recognition to madrassas, Uttar Pradesh Minority Welfare Minister Om Prakash Rajbhar has said that two universities will be opened in the state and all madrassas will be affiliated to them.

Solapur: NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar on Sunday took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his assurance of doubling the income of farmers, claiming the BJP rule had, in fact, witnessed the doubling of farmer suicides.

Sonbhadra (UP)/ New Delhi: Two wagons and the locomotive of a private goods train derailed on a rail track maintained by a power plant here on Sunday, officials said.

Hyderabad: A 38-year-old security guard died after being hit by a speeding car driven by a degree student allegedly in a drunken state at Gajularamaram here on Sunday, police said.