New Delhi: It was a pleasant morning in the capital on Friday with minimum temperature settling at 27.8 degrees Celsius, average for this time of year. The Met department has forecast cloudy sky with light rain and thunder shower in some areas.

"The sky will remain cloudy, with rain and thunder showers in some areas of the city," an India Meteorological Department (IMD) official said.

The maximum temperature is expected to hover around 35 degrees Celsius, added the IMD official.

Humidity at 8.30 a.m. was 79 percent.

Thursday's maximum temperature stood at 32.8 degrees Celsius,...

Ranchi: Jharkhand has witnessed a steep rise in the number of rape cases registered in the first five months of this year, as compared to the same period in the two years preceding, according to data from the state police department.

A total of 500 rape cases were registered in the state till May 31 from January 1 this year. During the same period in 2012, 328 rape cases were registered; and...

Dharamsala: Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has said if it is useful his successor could be a female.

But at the same time, he said, whether or not there is a next reincarnation will depend on the Tibetan people's wishes.

"If it would be more useful, the Dalai Lama could certainly be female, but whether or not there is a fifteenth reincarnation will depend on the Tibetan people's...

Chennai: Tamil Nadu Police on Wednesday arrested a doctor based in Salem for his alleged involvement in the kidney selling racket, said police.

Nephrologist Ganesan, working in the Vinayaka Mission Hospital in Salem, around 340 km from here, was arrested by police based on a complaint.

Police are also planning to inquire in the hospitals with which Ganesan was associated.

The arrest...

Hyderabad: A railway police official showed exemplary courage in foiling a train robbery in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh early on Thursday, the railway announced.

Shaik Ibrahim, a sub-inspector with Railway Protection Force at Guntakal, fired two rounds from his service pistol at the robbers, who were hiding in the darkness at a place where the train had stopped due to the alarm chain...

Bangalore: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, whose Samajwadi Party has one member in the Karnataka assembly for the first time, arrived here on Thursday on a two-day visit to the state.

He has old connection with Karnataka as he did his engineering course from a college in Mysore, about 130 km from here.

On his first visit to Karnataka after becoming the chief minister, he is...

Kullu: The Himachal Pradesh government on Thursday imposed a ban on river rafting here due to the sudden increase in water level in the Beas river, an official said here.

"The water level in the Beas has increased due to incessant rains in the region in the past two days. Keeping in view strong current, we have imposed a ban on river rafting till further orders," sub divisional magistrate...

Lucknow: A former legislator of the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) has written to party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, seeking permission to end his own life, and that of his wife.

In a letter addressed to the father-son duo of Mulayam and Akhilesh Yadav, Abdul Samad Ansari and his wife Shehla Parveen have alleged harassment at the hands of Congress...

Bhubaneswar: Monsoon showers lashed down on Odisha, with one town, district headquarters of Koraput, recording 163 millimetre rain in the past 24 hours, an official said on Thursday.

Normal life was hit in the headquarters town of Koraput, about 500 km from state capital Bhubaneswar. A senior official of the Bhubaneswar meteorological centre said that rains in Koraput were "heavy" to "very...

Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh assembly remains paralysed over the Telangana issue, with the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) stalling the house for the third consecutive day on Thursday.

A day before the "chalo assembly" called by the Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC), the TRS and other parties staged protests over the arrests of hundreds of people across Telangana.

As soon as the house...