The effects of World Cup fatigue are evident not only among players and support staff but also in the journalism, as only two reporters attended India's pre-match press conference before their series-opening T20I against Australia in Visakhapatnam.

Former Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes Chairperson H Kantharaju, the architect of the state's Socio-Economic and Education survey, popularly known as the "caste census" on Thursday asserted that the exercise was "completely scientific", and rejected claims to the contrary.

The Delhi High Court on Thursday granted time to police to file their response to a plea seeking registration of FIR against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for allegedly revealing the identity of Dalit girl, who was raped and murdered in 2021, by posting a photo of he with her parents on social media platform X.

The central agencies that are at present targeting opposition leaders will be after the BJP following the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee claimed on Thursday, asserting that the government at the Centre will last for three more months.

The police have registered a case against cricketer S Sreesanth and two others based on a cheating complaint filed by a man in this north Kerala district.

An apparently inebriated 16-year-old stabbed another teen more than 55 times, slit his throat, dragged the body through the street and did a jig while he carried out the grisly crime in east Delhi's Welcome colony earlier this week, police said on Thursday.

The first woman judge of the Supreme Court and former Governor of Tamil Nadu, Justice Fathima Beevi, died at a private hospital here on Thursday, official sources said. She was 96.

Union minister Giriraj Singh has written to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, saying halal business is "treason" in a secular democracy and advocating an Uttar Pradesh like ban on the production, storage, distribution and sale of food products with halal certification in the state.