Nobel Prize winner and social activist Kailash Satyarthi will be the chief guest at this year's annual "Vijaya Dashami" function of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

A Haryana court sentenced self-styled godman Rampal and his 13 followers to life imprisonment in a second case of murder Wednesday.

 Ten people, including four women, were killed in Odisha's Nuapada district early Wednesday when their car collided head-on with a truck, a senior police official said.

Three women journalists were attacked in Kerala's Pathanamthitta district on Wednesday as protesters continued to demand that women of menstruation age must not enter the Sabarimala temple.

Rajasthan BJP MLA Manvendra Singh, who is the son of former Union minister Jaswant Singh, joined the Congress on Wednesday ahead of assembly elections in the state.

Wearing of helmet by Sikh women in Chandigarh has been made optional, the Home Ministry said Wednesday, a week after it had completely exempted them from wearing the protective head gear.

An Indian Army personnel has been arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut in connection with the BrahMos spying case. The soldier, part of the Signal Regiment, was picked up days after an engineer at the BrahMos Aerospace Private Limited in Maharashtra was arrested by the UP police.

Swine flu has led to five deaths in Hyderabad in the last two weeks. Cases of swine flu are increasing in the city, said Ramesh Reddy, Director of Medical Education of Telangana.