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The National Conference (NC) on Monday said the party would take legal course to challenge the detention of its president Farooq Abdullah under the Public Safety Act (PSA) in Jammu and Kashmir.

E-commerce giants Amazon and Flipkart are all set to hold their annual festive season sales ahead of Diwali and Durga Puja due next month. Amazon's Great Indian Festival sale will kick off from midnight on September 29 and will end at midnight on October 4.

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah was on Monday charged under the Public Safety Act (PSA) - a stringent law that enables detention without trial for two years. The politician, 83, has been charged with "disturbing public order", which carries a three-month detention term. He has so far been under "unofficial" house arrest in Srinagar, which will now be his "jail". This is the first time PSA has been used on a mainstream politician, particularly one who is a three-time former Chief Minister. It has usually been used to arrest terrorists or separatists. Questioned over the timing of the move, sources said there worries Mr Abdullah might talk to the press about Kashmir, which could be awkward for the centre ahead of a UN meet later this month.

VS Gaitonde's untitled 1982 work, painted during the peak of his career, has fetched a whopping Rs 26.9 crores at Saffronart's recent live evening sale on Modern Indian Art, making it one of the top five highest value works ever sold by an Indian artist.

Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa - the BJP's tallest leader in south India -- today said a firm "no" to party chief Amit Shah's push for having Hindi as a common language across the country that revived the decades-old debate.

Farooq Abdullah, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, has been charged under the Public Safety Act (PSA), which allows arrest or detention for up to two years without trial. In an irony, he is at the receiving end of the same law that was cleared by his father and former Chief Minister Sheikh Abdullah in the 1970s.

Banegal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is coming to Delhi tomorrow to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Wednesday's meeting between the two leaders -- their first since the Lok Sabha elections -- would be on issues facing the state, sources said.

Over 50 eminent Bengali personalities from different walks of life have called upon the people of West Bengal to give "due respect to all languages" and "resist attempt to impose just one".

Former Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar failed to turn up at the CBI office in Kolkata today to face interrogation in the Saradha case.

Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday said that oil supplies to India will not be disrupted after an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities over the weekend halved the kingdom's production.

The National Commission for Women has sought a report from the Banaras Hindu University on the action taken by the varsity in the sexual harassment case against a professor whose return to taking classes triggered a protest by students.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday met New Jersey Governor Philip D Murphy and assured him of government's support as the US state seeks to pursue meaningful cooperation with states in India.

Days after he hit out at the Aam Aadmi Party government over regularisation of unauthorised colonies, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan was on Monday invited by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to participate in the anti-dengue campaign and make it a "huge success".

The National Commission for Women on Monday formed a committee to look into the gang-rape of a former inmate of the Muzaffarpur shelter home in a moving car.

Days after PK Mishra and PK Sinha were appointed as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Principal Secretary and Principal Advisor respectively, the Prime Minister's Office has defined the work areas for the two officers, and also for National Security Advisor Ajit Doval.