Tejas Mehta With Inputs From Agencies

After nearly three decades in service, India's majestic aircraft carrier INS Viraat set sail for one last time from Mumbai to Kochi. It will be decommissioned later this year.

Cheers filled the air as a train carrying five lakh litres of water pulled into Latur early this morning, several hours behind schedule and with far less water than originally planned.

Ramkund, the holy bathing spot on the river Godavari in Maharashtra, has gone dry for the first time in 139 years. Thousands of pilgrims in Nashik town for a holy dip today to mark Gudi Padwa or the New Year by the Hindu calendar will find mostly puddles of water, say officials.

Terrorist David Coleman Headley today alleged that the National Investigation Agency or NIA did not record his statements on the 26/11 investigations in his exact words and neither were they read out to him.

Groups of people have been banned from gathering near water sources in the Latur district of Maharashtra to prevent riots over water. It's an unprecedented step, but in a region where water tankers arrive only once a week, and water through the taps just once a month, violence over who gets that water is not unfathomable.

Underworld don Chhota Rajan, wanted for a series of murders in India, has been arrested in Indonesia after two decades on the run, Home Minster Rajnath Singh confirmed today.

The uneasy alliance between the BJP and the Shiv Sena came under strain again today after a number of hoardings - chiefly showing Prime Minister Narendra Modi bowing before the late Sena patriarch Bal Thackeray - appeared overnight in Mumbai's Dadar.

Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar today said he would not interfere in investigations against his brother-in-law Dilip Malvankar, who was arrested while accepting a bribe of Rs.1 lakh to facilitate a project.

Days after BJP government in Goa resolved to grant pardon to Francisco Pacheco, documents show that the convicted legislator had given hypertension and an ailing mother as reasons to get the pardon.

Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut today sparked a major controversy by saying in a column that Muslims in the country were suffering due to vote bank politics and that revoking their voting rights would solve their problems.

The decision to make train travel more expensive is "like running over the common man with a train," says the Shiv Sena, which participates in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's coalition government.'

The Bharatiya Janata Party's Maharashtra unit has appealed to the governing council of the Indian Premier League (IPL) not to hold matches in the state with several regions in the grip of a severe drought. Leader of opposition in the state legislative council Vinod Tawade said he has written to IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla.

Eight districts of the Marathwada region in Maharashtra are battling severe drought, and the situation is especially acute in the Jalna district where many claim the last time their taps had water was over five years ago.

After nearly three decades in service, India's majestic aircraft carrier INS Viraat set sail for one last time from Mumbai to Kochi. It will be decommissioned later this year.

Cheers filled the air as a train carrying five lakh litres of water pulled into Latur early this morning, several hours behind schedule and with far less water than originally planned.

Ramkund, the holy bathing spot on the river Godavari in Maharashtra, has gone dry for the first time in 139 years. Thousands of pilgrims in Nashik town for a holy dip today to mark Gudi Padwa or the New Year by the Hindu calendar will find mostly puddles of water, say officials.

Terrorist David Coleman Headley today alleged that the National Investigation Agency or NIA did not record his statements on the 26/11 investigations in his exact words and neither were they read out to him.

Groups of people have been banned from gathering near water sources in the Latur district of Maharashtra to prevent riots over water. It's an unprecedented step, but in a region where water tankers arrive only once a week, and water through the taps just once a month, violence over who gets that water is not unfathomable.

Underworld don Chhota Rajan, wanted for a series of murders in India, has been arrested in Indonesia after two decades on the run, Home Minster Rajnath Singh confirmed today.

The uneasy alliance between the BJP and the Shiv Sena came under strain again today after a number of hoardings - chiefly showing Prime Minister Narendra Modi bowing before the late Sena patriarch Bal Thackeray - appeared overnight in Mumbai's Dadar.

Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar today said he would not interfere in investigations against his brother-in-law Dilip Malvankar, who was arrested while accepting a bribe of Rs.1 lakh to facilitate a project.

Days after BJP government in Goa resolved to grant pardon to Francisco Pacheco, documents show that the convicted legislator had given hypertension and an ailing mother as reasons to get the pardon.

Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut today sparked a major controversy by saying in a column that Muslims in the country were suffering due to vote bank politics and that revoking their voting rights would solve their problems.

The decision to make train travel more expensive is "like running over the common man with a train," says the Shiv Sena, which participates in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's coalition government.'

The Bharatiya Janata Party's Maharashtra unit has appealed to the governing council of the Indian Premier League (IPL) not to hold matches in the state with several regions in the grip of a severe drought. Leader of opposition in the state legislative council Vinod Tawade said he has written to IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla.

Eight districts of the Marathwada region in Maharashtra are battling severe drought, and the situation is especially acute in the Jalna district where many claim the last time their taps had water was over five years ago.