Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday categorically stated that he would not accept an award named after VD Savarkar, nor attend a related event, even as a senior party colleague wanted the Congress MP to not accept any honour named after the ideologue whom he claimed "bowed before the British."

India's Deepavali -- the festival of light -- was on Wednesday inscribed on the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

The Mumbai police have arrested a man for allegedly cheating a couple of Rs 72 lakh in a forex trading fraud, officials said.

Mumbai is receiving a partially inadequate water supply, with its daily requirement often exceeding the available reservoir storage, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde informed the state assembly on Wednesday.

The Kerala police have launched a comprehensive probe into the mysterious death of a 19-year-old woman, whose decomposed body was found near her home after she went missing last week in Malayattoor near here.

Ajay Gupta, one of the co-owners of Goa's 'Birch by Romeo Lane' nightclub, said that he is "only a partner" as he was brought to Delhi's Anti Extortion and Kidnapping Cell of the Crime Branch on Wednesday in connection with the blaze that killed 25 people.

Four people were killed and 27 others injured after a bus collided head-on with a truck on Jaipur-“Bikaner National Highway in the Sikar district of Rajasthan on Tuesday night.

Four constables of a bomb squad from Morena were killed and another cop was seriously injured when their vehicle collided with a container truck in Madhya Pradesh's Sagar district on Wednesday, an official said.