The Bihar Cabinet on Tuesday decided not to renew the licences of beer and ENA (extra-neutral alcohol) manufacturing units and IMFL (Indian-made foreign liquor) bottling plants from April 1 this year, officials said. ....

A six-year-old boy was sodomised by three persons who worked in a yoga ashram in New Delhi, police said, adding one accused has been arrested. ....

Police have arrested an American citizen in Hyderabad for downloading and uploading child pornography. ....

The Delhi Assembly on Tuesday witnessed vociferous protests by the BJP over the two-day session not starting with newly-appointed Lt. Governor Anil Baijal's address. ....

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday moved a caveat in the Supreme Court urging it not to pass any order in case the rival Samajwadi Party faction files a plea challenging the Election Commission's order granting it the cycle symbol. ....

Two persons were arrested on Tuesday in Madhya Pradesh's Guna district along with 17 kg of cannabis having a market value of over Rs 6 lakh, police said. ....

A court here on Tuesday allowed former Congress MP and industrialist Naveen Jindal, who has been accused in a coal block allocation case, to extend by three days his foreign trip undertaken for business purposes. ....

The notification for the first phase of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections was issued on Tuesday. ....

Even as SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav is believed to be mulling his next move subsequent to the EC declaring his son and UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav as the party President, the latter has already called on his father twice since Monday evening. ....

The Jharkhand government on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sampark Foundation to launch 'Sampark Smart Shala Programme' that aims at providing Maths and English tuitions in 26,000 primary government schools across the state. ....