A man was electrocuted after his mobile phone that he was speaking on while it was connected to a charger got burnt due to suspected high voltage at Vagupalli under Kanigiri mandal in Prakasham district.

K. Anvar Sadath, vice chairman and executive director of Kerala Infrastructure and Technology For Education (KITE), has become the first Indian to receive The International Contributions Award.

Over 100 Maratha activists staged a noisy 'jail-bharo' agitation at Azad Maidan here on Wednesday, marking the intensified phase of their ongoing fortnight-long campaign for job quotas for the community.

The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) on Wednesday said that it rescued 39 Nepali women, who had become victims of human trafficking.

A four-month-old child took ill and died aboard Bengaluru-Patna IndiGo flight even as the flight was diverted to Hyderabad on Tuesday, sources at the airport said.

Those left out of a draft list of citizens in Assam "need not worry" for now, they can vote if their name is on the electoral rolls, India's top election officer said on Wednesday.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Gyan Dev Ahuja has said that cow slaughtering is a bigger crime than terrorism.

Amid jousting in the opposition, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that a collective decision will be taken on the issue of Prime Ministerial candidate.