The Shiv Sena has extended an assistance of Rs 5 lakh to a family who lost two young children in a drowning incident in Pune district after Deputy CM Eknath Shinde consoled them over the phone, the party claimed.

Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, the chief cleric of Kashmir, on Saturday condemned the suicide bombing that killed more than 30 persons in a mosque in Pakistan.

The Kuki Students' Organisation (KSO), Delhi and NCR, has expressed "firm opposition" to the installation of a new government in Manipur saying it lacks "moral or political legitimacy" in the eyes of Kuki-Zo people, who continue to endure displacement, insecurity, and trauma.

The India-US trade pact will open a USD 30 trillion market for Indian exporters, especially MSMEs, farmers and fishermen, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Saturday.

Punjab Police have registered a case against two named persons, including a foreign-based gangster, and two unknown individuals in connection with the daylight murder of AAP leader Lucky Oberoi in Jalandhar on Friday, with police suspecting personal enmity as the reason behind the killing, officials said on Saturday.

Actor-politician Vijay is considering two constituencies in Chennai from which he may pick one for his maiden electoral contest in the upcoming Assembly election in Tamil Nadu, a source in the TVK said.

The counsel for Congress leader Sonia Gandhi on Saturday claimed before a Delhi court that a complaint alleging that she was included in the electoral roll three years before acquiring Indian citizenship in 1983 was politically motivated and filed for an extraneous reason.

 A special investigation team (SIT) has been constituted to trace 10 tribal children, who went missing from a hamlet in Jharkhand’s Koderma district, a senior police officer said on Saturday.