The death toll in an ongoing gun battle in Jammu and Kashmir between security forces and the guerrillas rose to five on Friday after an injured soldier succumbed to his injuries.

The Uttar Pradesh officials seem to be leaving no stone unturned to put the Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav in awkward position. This time, the Panchayati Raj Department of Bundelkhand is mulling to distribute blankets at a time when the entire northern India is reeling under heat wave.

Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, allegedly at the centre of a Rs.2,500 crore money laundering scam, surrendered in a court on Friday after his bail period ended and was sent to 14 days in judicial custody.

Punjab Government on Friday pulled up the state bureaucracy and directed it show "due respect" to MLAs after complaints that officers, especially at district headquarters, tend to "overlook" the legislators.

Police have arrested a Tibetan national, suspected to be a Chinese spy, from McLeodganj, the abode of Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama, an official said on Thursday.

The holy city of Amritsar on Thursday recorded its highest temperature in over three decades with the mercury hitting a high of 48 degrees Celsius as severe heat wave conditions prevailed over Punjab and Haryana.

An elderly woman was allegedly killed by her daughter-in-law and two other persons at Chakia area, the police said in Chandauli.

Son of a SP leader was sentenced to life imprisonment and a penalty of Rs one lakh was also imposed on him by a local court for raping a minor girl.

Jammu and Kashmir Police on Thursday arrested a police constable involved in drug smuggling from mountainous Rajouri district, an officer said. Rajouri's Superintendent of Police (SP) Mubassir Latifi told reporters that the constable was caught at a special check-post in Rajouri town while he was travelling with an associate, also a policeman, in a car.

A senior district official and two policemen were among the seven persons injured in a clash between agitators protesting the murder of a 12-year-old girl and police in Chapati village.