Speculation is rife in India’s political and media circles over the possibility of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor being named the next Vice-President of India, following the surprise resignation of incumbent VP Jagdeep Dhankhar.

A truck driver from Madhya Pradesh was arrested for allegedly raping a girl in Odisha's Malkangiri district, police said on Tuesday.

Police have registered a non-cognisable case against a 22-year-old IT professional who falsely claimed that she was raped by a man posing as a 'delivery agent' at her apartment in Pune, officials said on Tuesday.

Hundreds of people waited outside the historic Darbar Hall here to pay homage to former Chief Minister and veteran CPI(M) leader V S Achuthanandan on Tuesday, a day after he breathed his last at the age of 101.

Three persons, wanted in the murder of gangster Chandan Mishra at a hospital in Patna, were arrested in Bihar's Bhojpur district on Tuesday following a gunfight with the police, officials said.

With Jagdeep Dhankhar quitting as the vice president, the election to appoint his successor will have to be held "as soon as possible".

The Congress on Tuesday claimed the reasons behind Jagdeep Dhankhar's resignation as vice president are "far deeper" than health issues cited by him, and that his resignation speaks highly of him but poorly of those who got him elected to the post.

New Delhi: A screenshot taken during a video call led to the identification and eventually the arrest of two teenagers who allegedly robbed people to fund their drug addiction and hotel stays, police said on Monday.