Jitendra Awhad, former Maharashtra minister, was arrested with nine supporters on Friday after he stopped the screening of a Marathi movie in Thane and also thrashed viewers in the theatre.

The Supreme Court on Friday sought reports from the district collector and the deputy conservator of forests of Satara in Maharashtra on the demolition drive conducted to remove alleged unauthorised structures on government land around the tomb of Afzal Khan, the commander of the Adil Shahi dynasty of Bijapur.

Noted freedom fighter Raghuveer Charan Sharma died at the government medical college in Madhya Pradesh's Vidisha district, an official said on Friday.

The Congress on Friday termed "totally unacceptable and completely erroneous" the Supreme Court order directing the premature release of six convicts serving life sentence in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, and said the apex court has not acted in consonance with the spirit of India on this issue.

Three labourers died after allegedly inhaling toxic gas while cleaning a 'pollution' tank at a tannery in Jajmau here, police said on Friday.

A bill that proposes to use 1932 land records to determine people's domicile status was passed in the Jharkhand assembly on Friday.

The Supreme Court on Friday said that the 'Shivling' found at the Gyanvapi mosque will be protected until further orders.

Uttarakhand Ayurveda and Unani Licensing Authority has asked Divya Pharmacy to stop the production of five medicines and produce their revised formulation sheets for approval.