Cyclonic storm Mandous which crossed the coast at Mamallapuram near here has weakened into a deep depression but the weather system impacted the city and its neighbourhoods, uprooting a number of trees.

New Delhi: Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan on Friday supported bringing a Uniform Civil Code, and said anyone who has sworn to the constitution will never oppose it.

Ahmedabad: Imran Khedawala of the Congress is the only Muslim candidate to be elected to the 182-member Gujarat Assembly in the just concluded polls, which saw the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) win a landslide victory.

New Delhi: Over 16 lakh Indians have given up Indian citizenship since 2011 including 183,741 this year, the government said in Lok Sabha on Friday.

Morbi (Guj): A local court on Friday granted bail to Trinamool Congress spokesperson Saket Gokhale in a case related to a tweet allegedly posted by him about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the Morbi bridge collapse site.

New Delhi: Apex child rights body NCPCR has asked all states and Union Territories to conduct an inquiry into all government-funded and recognised madrassas that are admitting non-Muslim children.

Nagpur: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday said his government will study laws on freedom of religion, dubbed as legislations on "love jihad", enacted by other states, but had not yet decided on introducing a similar law in the western state.

Shimla: A meeting of newly elected Congress MLAs to discuss the appointment of the next Himachal Pradesh chief minister began here on Friday evening amid a show of strength by aspirants to the post, a day after the party wrested power from the BJP.