Breaking News, November 6 | HIGHLIGHTS

The BJP in Odisha on Monday announced the names of presidents for its 36 organisational districts, seven months after Manmohan Samal was appointed the state chief.

Days after quitting the Samajwadi Party, three-time MP Ravi Prakash Verma on Monday joined the Congress, which he credited with "whatever development has taken place in the country".

A 24-year-old man was bludgeoned to death amid an argument during a cricket match in Bhandara, some 800 kilometres from here, a police official said on Monday.

The Supreme Court collegium headed by Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud on Monday recommended the names of three high court chief justices as judges of the apex court.

The government has nominated seven more members, including Satish H Chavan from Bharatiya Vyapar Udyog Mandal, to the National Traders Welfare Board, which advises the Centre on reducing compliance burden and improving the availability of funds for traders, according to an official order.

Four people were injured after their car rammed into a divider in southwest Delhi’s Najafgarh area on Monday, police said.

IndiGo plans to start flights to Bali and Medina in the current fiscal as the airline continues to expand its network, its chief Pieter Elbers said on Monday. The airline is "well on track" to achieve the target of carrying 100 million passengers this financial year, he told reporters here.

Delhi's air quality showed a marginal improvement on Monday, while the maximum temperature was recorded at 31.5 degrees Celsius, a notch above the season's average.

Fresh tension gripped the state capital and its adjoining areas on Monday after two teenaged boys went missing from Imphal West district in Manipur.

UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman has come under fire from the Opposition and charities even as her own party colleagues distanced themselves from remarks that implied that some homeless people sleeping in tents on the streets of the country were making a “lifestyle choice”.

The Mumbai police have seized charas worth Rs 7.57 lakh and arrested two persons for allegedly supplying and distributing the contraband, an official said on Monday.

A 31-year-old man allegedly shot himself dead with a pistol in southwest Delhi’s Dwarka area on Monday, police said.

Nepal President Ramchandra Paudel has cancelled his planned 10-day visit to Europe in view of the devastating earthquake in the country, his office said on Monday. Paudel was scheduled to depart on November 8 to participate in the Paris Peace Forum and subsequently visit Germany and Italy. He was scheduled to return home on November 17.

More than 40 people at work had a narrow escape when chemicals kept inside a tunnel on the Rishikesh-Karnaprayag railway line project caught fire.

A 17-year-old girl who ran away from home was reunited with her family in Maharashtra's Thane district on Monday, an official from the Railway Protection Force said. An RPF head constable found the girl and her boyfriend sleeping on a foot overbridge at Dativali railway station in Diva around 2 am, inspector Girish Tiwari of Diva RPF said.

A parliamentary committee on home affairs on Monday adopted three reports on bills to replace the existing criminal laws with some opposition members submitting dissent notes, sources said. The Parliamentary Committee on Home Affairs, chaired by BJP member Brij Lal, met on Monday, nearly 10 days after members had sought additional time to study the draft reports circulated late last month.

A chopper carrying BRS supremo and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao returned to his farmhouse near here minutes after taking off on Monday owing to a technical glitch. Rao was on en route to Devarakadra, where he is scheduled to address a poll rally this afternoon.

Three people were killed when an APSRTC bus overshot the platform at the bus terminus on Monday. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy expressed shock and grief over the mishap at the Pandit Nehru bus terminus here and announced ex-gratia of Rs 10 lakh to the kin of the deceased.

"The stubble burning in Punjab is about 500 km away from here and the stubble burning in Haryana is 100 km away..." AAP leader Priyanka Kakkar said.