Travellers will soon be able to enter airports in the country with facial recognition biometric under the government's Digi Yatra initiative.

Two brothers have been shot dead in Thakurganj area here by some people due to old enmity, following which one accused has been arrested, police said on Thursday.

The Supreme Court Thursday dismissed a petition filed by the wife of arrested former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt challenging his arrest in a 22-year-old case of alleged planting of drugs to arrest an advocate.

A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices S K Kaul and K M Joseph said the petition can be moved before the Gujarat High Court.

Heavy rains lashed Puducherry and its outskirts affecting normal life Thursday morning. Most of most educational institutions in the union territory remained closed in view of the intermittent rains which started Wednesday night, officials said.

The Supreme Court Thursday allowed the deportation of seven Rohingyas, who have illegally migrated to Assam in India, to their country of origin Myanmar.

A day after he met Congress president Rahul Gandhi in Wardha, BJP MLA Ashish Deshmukh Wednesday resigned from the Maharashtra Assembly, citing alleged corruption in the Rafale deal as the reason.

A seven-month-old boy in Panipat allegedly choked to death on Wednesday as a small ball got stuck in his throat .

The deceased has been identified as Mohit, who lived with his mother Kavita at his maternal grandfather’s house in Purewal colony of the city.

The rupee collapsed to a fresh low of 73.77 against the US dollar Thursday, as global oil prices continued to rise, deepening concerns about the current account deficit and capital outflows.