The famous Kedarnath shrine was virtually submerged in mud and slush where 50 people died in the unprecedented flash floods that claimed over 130 lives in Uttarkhand and Himachal Pradesh and left over 70,000 pilgrims for Himalayan shrines stranded.

Thousands of Char Dham pilgrims were stranded on Gangotri and Yamunotri routes, as incessant overnight showers across Uttarakhand caused landslips in Uttarkashi district.

The state of Uttarakhand is witnessing incessant rainfall for the last 48 hours which has caused havoc in different parts of the state. According to the reports, over 10 people are feared dead and more than 50 are believed to be missing.

Weeks after Narayana Murthy returned to Infosys, the country's second largest IT firm on Thursday announced it will increase salaries of its employees in India for the fiscal year 2014 by an average 8 percent.

Vishav Hindu Parishad on Wednesday demanded the commencement of the annual Amarnath Yatra from 'Jyeshth Purnima' falling on June 23.

CBI has booked former Minister of State for Coal Dasari Narayan Rao and Congress MP and industrialist Naveen Jindal for alleged cheating, graft and criminal misconduct in its 12th FIR in the coal blocks allocation scam, causing embarrassment to the ruling Congress.

The Bombay High Court has directed the Maharashtra government to constitute a new committee to govern the affairs of the Shri Sai Baba Sansthan Trust in Shirdi in accordance with the new rules framed by it.

Bollywood's "Hawa hawaii" girl Sridevi has been named for the Padma Shri, India's civilian award, on the eve of 64th Republic Day. The 49-year-old, who made a grand Bollywood comeback in 2012 with a strong female-centric role in "English Vinglish", boasts of a filmography of 265 movies. She came back after a 15-year sabbatical, and won hearts with her simple and subtle performance in the film as a homemaker struggling to learn English.

Industrialist Subrato Roy recently threw a party in honour of Sridevi to felicitate her for the Padma Shri award she received. At the event, everything was thematically designed keeping in mind the veteran star’s filmography. In fact, even the dishes served were named after the films Sri had acted in!

Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Monday sparked controversy by calling 26/11 Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafeez Saeed as ‘Shri’ Hafeez Saeed. Making a statement in the Rajya Sabha, a day after Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik concluded his three-day visit to India, the minister agreed that Pakistan has been misleading India on the arrest of Saeed.