Delhi residents suffered sweltering heat on Tuesday as the mercury touched 42.8 degrees Celsius, and the Met Office offered some respite with forecast of showers towards evening hours and on Wednesday. ....

The Jharkhand Cabinet on Tuesday cleared nine proposals, including one to implement Medical Protection Act, said an official. ....

Calcutta High Court Justice C.S. Karnan, sentenced to jail for six months by the Supreme Court, reached here on Tuesday and moved into the State Guest House. ....

Senior district and police officials here on Tuesday took refuge in a residential colony after a mob attacked them and set fire to many vehicles, authorities said. ....

The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday ruled that triple talaq was a violation of the Indian Constitution and that the rights of women cannot be violated in the name of personal law. ....

Eighty-nine trains on the Lucknow-Varanasi route have been cancelled between May 12 and 17, the Northern Railway announced on Tuesday. ....

Congress leader and Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday said he has nothing to hide over the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar in 2014. ....

The BJP on Tuesday accused the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of lying to the Election Commission by not revealing the exact amount of funds it received through donations. ....

At least six persons were killed, hundreds rendered homeless, and property worth lakhs of rupees destroyed on Tuesday when a storm hit several districts of Bihar, officials said. Road transport and electricity supply too was hit. ....

One of the two Special Police Officers (SPOs) injured in a mysterious firing incident in Jammu and Kashmir's Doda district, succumbed in a hospital here on Tuesday. ....