The Himachal Pradesh government Friday declared the massive damage caused by heavy rains as a state calamity.

Expressing concern over the rising cases of student suicide in Kota, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday directed officials to form a committee to provide suggestions on preventing them.

The Supreme Court on Friday sought a response from the Centre on a PIL seeking a direction to decriminalise the law on statutory rape often invoked against 16- to 18-year-old adolescents for indulging in consensual sex.

Three more persons were arrested on Friday in connection with the death of a first-year undergraduate student after being allegedly ragged and sexually harassed last week, taking the total number of senior students and ex-students apprehended in the case which has hit national headlines to 12.

Some burglars broke open an automated teller machine (ATM) of a nationalised bank near Palghar town of Maharashtra in the wee hours of Saturday, but had to return empty-handed as there was no cash inside, police said.

Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday referred the three proposed laws that will replace the IPC, CrPC and the Evidence Act to the Standing Committee on Home Affairs for examination and asked it to submit its report within three months.

Bengaluru: ISRO on Friday released a set of visuals of the Moon captured by cameras positioned on the Lander Module of Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft.

New Delhi: A Delhi sessions court, hearing a case of the 2020 northeast Delhi riots, has come down heavily on the city police for filing the charge sheet "in a predetermined, mechanical and erroneous manner," and not investigating the incidents "properly and completely."