A Maoist commander has been killed in Chhattisgarh in a shootout with the police, officials said on Sunday. The Maoist, gunned down on Saturday night in Sukma district, has been identified as Jaggu. His body was found on Sunday morning.

Former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda called on Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao here on Sunday.

The Janata Dal-Secular leader, who was on a private visit to Hyderabad, met the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief at the latter's camp office in Begumpet. The Chief Minister's Office described it as a courtesy call.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday expressed grief over the death of 45 people who were killed after a bus fell into a gorge in Uttarakhand's Pauri Garhwal district.

Dr Abdul Gani Khan had quietly retired to his residential quarter after a distressing day attending to people injured in a clash with security forces during an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district.

A Mexican journalist was shot dead in a bar in the state of Quintana Roo, the eight such murder case this year.

Jose Guadalupe Chan Dzib was a well-known journalist in southeastern Mexico who had worked in several newspapers and was presently working as a crime reporter for Playa News, an online newspaper based in the resort town of Playa del Carmen, reports Efe news.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday congratulated the people of the nation as the roll-out of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) plan completed one year.

At least 40 passengers were killed in Uttarakhand when their bus fell into a gorge this morning. Four of them were critically injured in the accident which happened on the Pipali-Bhoan motorway in Pauri Garhwal's Nainidanda block. The police and a team of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) are facilitating rescue operations.

An LPG tanker toppled in the middle of the road when its driver lost control over the vehicle on Sunday morning at Hosakote near here.