The Supreme Court on Wednesday permitted the sale and bursting of green crackers in Delhi-NCR for Diwali.

 Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor on Wednesday announced that he will not contest the Bihar assembly polls, a decision, he claimed, was taken by the party for its greater good.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has restored flats, commercial units and plots worth Rs 175 crore to more than 200 homebuyers who had been waiting to get possession of their dream home for over 12 years, the agency said.

Ending an impasse over the autopsy of Haryana IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, who allegedly committed suicide here on October 7, his family has given consent to conduct his post-mortem examination, a police official said on Wednesday.

With the family of Haryana IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, who allegedly committed suicide, refusing to give consent for his autopsy, the Chandigarh Police on Tuesday moved a court here to seek direction to his family to identify the body for a postmortem examination.

Police on Tuesday evening arrested a friend of the medical student of a private college, who was allegedly raped in West Bengal’s Durgapur, taking the total number of arrests in the case to six, a senior police officer said.

YSRCP senior leader Gudivada Amarnath on Tuesday accused Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu of "misleading" the public over tech giant Google decision to set up a USD 15 billion gigawatt-scale Artificial Intelligence data centre in Visakhapatnam, while "hiding" Adani Group's name in the project.

Twenty passengers were burnt alive and 16 were critically injured when a private bus travelling from Jaisalmer to Jodhpur caught fire on Tuesday, police said.