Samira Shaikh With Inputs From Agencies

At least 13 people, including five women and two children, have died and 20 others are missing after a boat carrying over 100 people capsized on the Hirakud reservoir in Odisha's Sambalpur district on Sunday.

Lehar crossed the Andhra Pradesh coast as a depression at 2 pm with wind speed of around 40 kmph, the weather department said. It is expected to further weaken into a low pressure area in the next 12 hours.

The Home Ministry today sought a report from the Bihar government after five people were killed and at least 80 injured in seven blasts which took place at Patna's Gandhi Maidan, the venue for BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's rally. The Centre has sent a team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) to assist in further investigations.

A juveniles' court in Delhi is set to hand down the first verdict next week over December's fatal gang-rape of a student which provoked mass protests and new laws to punish crimes against women.

With the weather improving after days of torrential rainfall, rescue operations are in full swing in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. 60,000 people remain stranded; 102 have been killed.

With the weather improving after days of torrential rainfall, rescue operations are in full swing in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. Rainfall in Uttarakhand has been 450 per cent higher than normal. Congress president Sonia Gandhi and the Prime Minister will go on a two-hour survey of flood-affected areas in Uttarakhand in a helicopter today.

In a blow for the ruling BJP just two months before Assembly elections are held in Karnataka, the Congress has won big in the state's urban local body elections, bettering its 2007 numbers. The big flop of the election - BS Yeddyurappa.

Hyderabad bomb blast: A team of top officials from the National Investigation Agency or NIA and the Intelligence Bureau has reached Hyderabad, where two blasts have killed at least 14 people and injured 119 yesterday evening.

The Centre has rushed a team of top officials from the National Investigation Agency or NIA and the Intelligence Bureau to Hyderabad, where two blasts have killed at least 14 people and injured nearly 80 this evening.

At least 13 people, including five women and two children, have died and 20 others are missing after a boat carrying over 100 people capsized on the Hirakud reservoir in Odisha's Sambalpur district on Sunday.

Lehar crossed the Andhra Pradesh coast as a depression at 2 pm with wind speed of around 40 kmph, the weather department said. It is expected to further weaken into a low pressure area in the next 12 hours.

The Home Ministry today sought a report from the Bihar government after five people were killed and at least 80 injured in seven blasts which took place at Patna's Gandhi Maidan, the venue for BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's rally. The Centre has sent a team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) to assist in further investigations.

A juveniles' court in Delhi is set to hand down the first verdict next week over December's fatal gang-rape of a student which provoked mass protests and new laws to punish crimes against women.

With the weather improving after days of torrential rainfall, rescue operations are in full swing in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. 60,000 people remain stranded; 102 have been killed.

With the weather improving after days of torrential rainfall, rescue operations are in full swing in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. Rainfall in Uttarakhand has been 450 per cent higher than normal. Congress president Sonia Gandhi and the Prime Minister will go on a two-hour survey of flood-affected areas in Uttarakhand in a helicopter today.

In a blow for the ruling BJP just two months before Assembly elections are held in Karnataka, the Congress has won big in the state's urban local body elections, bettering its 2007 numbers. The big flop of the election - BS Yeddyurappa.

Hyderabad bomb blast: A team of top officials from the National Investigation Agency or NIA and the Intelligence Bureau has reached Hyderabad, where two blasts have killed at least 14 people and injured 119 yesterday evening.

The Centre has rushed a team of top officials from the National Investigation Agency or NIA and the Intelligence Bureau to Hyderabad, where two blasts have killed at least 14 people and injured nearly 80 this evening.