Kerala Minister Saji Cheriyan has harshly criticised the Constitution, saying it "condones exploitation" and is written in a way helping to "plunder" the people of the country, drawing sharp reaction from the opposition which sought for his immediate removal from the Pinarayi Vijayan-led LDF cabinet.

 A two-wheeler rider reportedly died on the spot after a Lorry toppled over on top of his vehicle at the Padubidri junction during the afternoon hours on Tuesday. 

SpiceJet's Delhi-Dubai flight was diverted to Karachi on Tuesday as the fuel indicator started malfunctioning, officials of the aviation regulator DGCA said.

Daulat Desai, a 2008-batch IAS officer working as joint director in the Medical Education and Drugs Department (MEDD) in Maharashtra, has resigned from the elite service and put up a long post on a social media platform on Monday stating it was "quite depressing to lie dumped in the backyard".

The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday conducted searches at 44 places across the country in a money laundering investigation against Chinese smartphone manufacturing company Vivo and related firms, officials said.

A team of Raipur police from Chhattisgarh reached Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday to arrest TV news anchor Rohit Ranjan in connection with the airing of an alleged misleading news over a statement of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, police officials here said.

Boulders fell from a hillock in Thane and a house collapsed in neighbouring Palghar following heavy rains in the two Maharashtra districts, officials said on Tuesday.

Garhwa, Jul 5 (PTI) A 70-year-old woman was beaten to death in Jharkhand's Garhwa district by villagers who claimed that she practiced witchcraft, police said on Tuesday.