Breaking News, March 3 | HIGHLIGHTS

West Bengal BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar narrowly escaped injury when his car collided with a police barricade on NH-34 in Shantipur, Nadia district, on Sunday, police said.

Jharkhand Chief Minister Champai Soren inaugurated five projects totaling Rs 85 crore in Garhwa district on Sunday.

One person was injured in a firing after supporters of a BJP leader clashed with each other in front of the party's office in Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior city on Sunday, police said.

Farmer leaders Sarwan Singh Pandher and Jagjit Singh Dallewal on Sunday gave a call to the farmers across the nation to reach Delhi on March 6 for a protest while they also gave a four-hour 'rail roko' countrywide call for March 10 in support of their various demands.

A man killed his 54-year-old wife by hitting her with a shovel in a village of Shamli district adjacent to Muzaffarnagar, an officer said on Sunday.

The NDRF, which is mandated to save lives during disasters, has now taken upon itself to train its rescuers and dogs in specialised skills for correct identification of the dead and ensure their dignity.

The CBI has arrested a general manager of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) in an alleged bribery case of Rs 20 lakh in Maharashtra's Nagpur, officials said on Sunday.

A total of 351 baby Indian tent turtles have been rescued in Odisha's Cuttack district while they were being smuggled, a DRI statement said on Sunday.

'Shooting' has been Lemdumong's passion since he was a teenager, but the last couple of years saw the 24-year-old switch from the gun to the video camera to capture the beauty of wildlife and nature.

 The CBI has filed a charge sheet against seven accused in connection with the looting of arms and ammunition from the Bishnupur police armoury during the Manipur ethnic violence last year, officials said on Sunday.

A woman and her son died after the motorcycle they were riding skidded and rammed into a divider in southeast Delhi, police said on Sunday. The deceased were identified as Shanti Devi and her son Rahul, residents of Faridabad in Haryana, they said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will next week inaugurate the much-awaited Howrah Maidan-Esplanade section of the Kolkata Metro, a government release said on Sunday.

NHAI authorities on Sunday morning stepped up efforts to resume traffic movement on Jammu-Srinagar national highway following improvement in weather, officials said.

The Tamil Nadu Forest Department would soon release a documentary on its sustained efforts to reunite a baby elephant with its mother, an official said on Sunday.

A 43-year-old manager of a cloth factory in Dhaka has been allegedly cheated of Rs 28 lakh after being promised good returns in shares trading while on vacation to his native place in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Sunday.

Firefighters in Texas faced rising temperatures, whipped-up winds and dry air Saturday in their battle to keep the largest wildfire in state history from turning more of the Panhandle into a parched wasteland.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will win all 29 Lok Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh in the upcoming general elections, said former chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who has been nominated from Vidisha seat.