Dubbing betting in sports a worse idea, the Congress on Friday said the Law Commission's recommendation for such a step will turn every shop selling betel leaves into a gambling den.

A day after AAP legislator in Punjab Aman Arora underwent a dope test, Punjab Assembly speaker Rana K.P. Singh also opted for it on Friday.

Broadly positive global markets along with healthy buying in auto and consumer durable stocks lifted the key Indian equity indices on Friday.

India's national academy of letters, the Sahitya Akademi, is inviting books for its prestigious Yuva Puraskar award for 2019, from publishers and "young Indian authors of the age of 35 and below" in its recognized 24 languages.

The 750 MW Rewa Solar Power Project in Madhya Pradesh, which is to supply power to the Delhi Metro, started operations from Friday, according to an announcement by the state-run Madhya Pradesh Urja Vikas Nigam Ltd (MPUVNL) -- and one of the biggest beneficiaries will be the Delhi Metro.

Asiya Andrabi, chief of the Kashmiri women's separatist group "Dukhtaran-e-Millat" (Daughters of Faith), and two of her associates were sent to 10 day National Investigation Agency (NIA) custody on Friday.

Seven Maoists, including four with rewards on their heads, surrendered in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district on Friday, police said.

A senior functionary of the BJP's Kerala unit has threatened popular Malayalam writer and novelist Paul Zachariah for calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi a "murderer".