Around 240 elephants were spotted in a 900 square km survey area in north Bengal in the pan-India synchronised elephant census, indicating the animal's numbers may have increased in the are, an official said on Wednesday. ....

Four major railway stations in Delhi will soon reduce their carbon footprint with rooftop solar power plants with a total five MW capacity. ....

Prince, the most photographed and dominating tiger of Karnataka's Bandipur Tiger Reserve, has died of natural causes, a forest official said on Wednesday. ....

Former AIIMS Director M.C. Misra -- who retired on January 31 -- has been appointed as honorary senior consultant at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here, said the city-based hospital. ....

Senior Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Shivpal Singh Yadav, who was sidelined in the party and government by nephew Akhilesh Yadav, met Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday, fuelling speculation. ....

A leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was killed on Wednesday morning in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar, police said. The deceased Raja Valmiki was member of the state executive. ....

Over 45,000 people have been arrested in a year in Bihar for violating the liquor prohibition law imposed by the Janata Dal-United government. ....

A primary teacher in an MCD school and his accomplice were arrested for laptop thefts in AC coaches of Rajdhani and Shatabdi trains, police said on Tuesday. ....

The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday denied any "overzealous" crackdown by authorities on abattoirs in the state and stated there would be no compromise on illegal slaughterhouses. ....

It was a cloudy morning here with the possibility of rain on Wednesday, the weather office said. ....