Five people were killed and eleven others went missing as heavy rains and a series of cloudbursts wreaked havoc in various districts of Uttarakhand early Friday, triggering landslides that damaged houses and left people buried under mounds of rubble, officials said.

Japan on Friday set an investment target of 10 trillion yen in India over a decade and the two sides firmed up a mega roadmap to bolster cooperation in several key areas such as critical minerals, defence and technology, in decisions that came amid economic turbulence by the Trump administration's policies on trade and tariffs.

 A group of tram enthusiasts on Friday announced a demonstration outside the West Bengal Transport Corporation (WBTC) headquarters here on September 4 in protest against the state government’s ongoing withdrawal of tram services from Kolkata roads citing traffic congestion.

In a scathing attack on RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday advised him against imposing his “three children” theory on Indian women.

TMC MP Mahua Moitra has triggered a fresh political controversy with her remarks against Union Home Minister Amit Shah, accusing him of failing to check infiltration from Bangladesh and allegedly stating his "head should be cut off and put on the table."

 A sadhu has been booked for allegedly sodomising a 22-year-old youth and attempting to sexually assault a 17-year-old minor at his ashram in Rajasthan's Alwar district, police said on Friday.

The CBI has registered an FIR against a senior manager of the Airport Authority of India for allegedly siphoning off more than Rs 232 crore into his personal accounts through a complex trail of fictitious accounting entries in three years during his posting at the Dehradun airport, officials said.

Workers of the BJP and the Congress clashed in Patna on Friday during a protest march taken out by the ruling party in protest against the alleged use of abusive language for Prime Minister Narendra Modi during Rahul Gandhi's 'Voter Adhikar Yatra'.