At least 18 people, including several children, died and several others injured as incessant heavy rainfall triggered multiple landslides across the Mirik and Darjeeling hills in the northern part of West Bengal on Sunday, sweeping away homes, damaging roads and cutting off several remote hamlets, officials said.

An old video of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from 1998 has resurfaced on social media, prompting a wave of mockery and criticism from users who are calling him “Feku” a slang term used online to describe exaggerated claims.

The operating crew of Air India's Amritsar-Birmingham flight reported that the Boeing 787's Ram Air Turbine (RAT) unexpectedly deployed during the final approach on October 4, but the aircraft landed safely, the airline said on Sunday.

A rehearsal for the upcoming Miss Rishikesh beauty pageant was briefly disrupted on Friday afternoon when members of a right-wing group, Rashtriya Hindu Shakti Sangathan, entered the venue and objected to the event, claiming it was “against the culture of Uttarakhand.”

The birth of twins, earlier considered a rare occurrence, has become quite frequent at the civil hospital in Maharashtra's Beed district, which has witnessed 42 sets of twins born at the facility in the last nine months.

The Geological Survey of India (GSI) will send a team to the Baratang Island to investigate the recent eruption of India's only active mud volcano, a senior official said on Sunday.

India’s sugar cooperatives sector has benefitted immensely after Narendra Modi became the prime minister, Union minister Amit Shah said on Sunday.

Two people, including a former journalist, have been arrested in connection with a blackmail and extortion racket, police said.