The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has approached a federal court in New York seeking permission to bypass diplomatic channels and serve summonses on industrialist Gautam Adani and his nephew Sagar Adani through their US-based lawyers and email, after India challenged the SEC’s authority to issue the summonses.

 Four Army personnel were killed and nine others injured when their vehicle skidded off the road and plunged into a deep gorge in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, officials said.

The Union Ministry of Home Affairs on Wednesday appointed senior IAS officer Sanjeev Khirwar as the new commissioner of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, marking his return to the national capital nearly three years after he was transferred out following a high-profile controversy linked to the Thyagraj Stadium.

The suicide of a student at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur reported on Tuesday has once again drawn attention to mental health concerns on India’s premier technical education campuses.

Three people were killed after a private bus collided with a lorry and caught fire here in Nandyal district on Thursday, police said.

A Delhi court on Thursday acquitted former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar in a case related to inciting violence in Janakpuri and Vikaspuri areas in the national capital during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

A court here has sentenced a man to life imprisonment and imposed a fine after convicting him of committing obscene acts and attempting to rape a Dalit minor girl, according to case officials.

A gun battle was underway between security forces and Maoists in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district on Thursday morning, police said.