Noida (UP): A DJ was arrested for playing "very loud music" during a wedding function in Noida after 10pm in violation of the law, a senior official said on Friday.

Hyderabad: Two people, including a pedestrian, died and seven others were injured in an LPG cylinder explosion that triggered an house collapse here Friday, police said.

New Delhi: Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Friday said the government has taken a "historic" decision to induct women in the military police with an aim to enhance their representation in the armed forces.

New Delhi: Fifty-one female devotees in the age group of 10-50 years have entered the Sabarimala temple since the Supreme Court removed the bar on their entry in September last year, the Kerala government Friday told the apex court, which ordered it to provide two of them round-the-clock foolproof security.

Banda (UP): A train ran over 25 cows near Ragaol railway station in neighbouring Hamirpur district on Friday, officials said.

Gandhinagar: Richest Indian Mukesh Ambani Friday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take steps to end increasing "data colonisation" by global corporations, saying Indians should own and control their own data.

The dates for the Lok Sabha elections are likely to be announced in the first week of March, sources indicated on Friday.

The term of the present Lok Sabha ends on June 3. The Election Commission is in the process of deciding the number of phases and the months in which polling would be held, they said.

Describing the BJP as a party with no regard for ethics, senior Congress leader Harish Rawat said a Ram temple will be built in Ayodhya only when his party comes to power at the Centre.