Three persons including a child got injured after the rifle of a Railway Protection Force (RPF) constable went off during change of duty at the Dumdum Metro railway station premises here on Friday afternoon, police said.

 A number of electronic voting machines (EVMs) malfunctioned in two places in the recent bypolls due to "excessive exposure to illumination", the Election Commission (EC) said on Friday.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi will address a national convention of the party's Other Backward Classes department here on Monday.

MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday said Muslims should emerge as political force to get their rights in the country.

Union Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said the new ordinance amending the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) to treat home buyers as financial creditors will eliminate "fly by night" operators and will force the real estate industry to eventually formalise itself.

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to hold an urgent hearing on a plea challenging the JD-S-Congress coalition government in Karnataka, contending that it was against the wishes of the people of the state.

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to pass any order to stay the alleged culling of stray dogs by authorities in Sitapur in Uttar Pradesh following deaths of over a dozen children in the past seven months.

Just a day after meeting BJP president Amit Shah in Chandigarh, the top leadership of the Shiromani Akali Dal met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Friday and emphasized that the BJP-Akali Dal alliance in Punjab was "durable and time-tested".