A day after the Indian Railways announced a new bi-weekly Mumbai-Hazrat Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express starting Saturday, all its tickets for the next maiden journey were sold out within five hours, officials said.

Police here on Friday named Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Manish Bairagi to be behind the murder of Mandsaur Municipal Corporation Chairman and BJP leader Prahlad Bandhwar.

Rejecting the farm loan waiver as a permanent solution, the BJP on Friday said that the Centre will announce relief measures in Budget 2019 that will boost farmers economically.

The Congress on Friday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of compromising national security in the Rafale deal by "denying" to the IAF 90 aircraft it desperately needed and "gifted" Dassault Rs 186 crore more per aircraft at the cost of the public exchequer in the deal it signed with France.

Lakhs of Trinamool Congress activists and supporters from across West Bengal thronged the city on Friday, a day ahead of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's high-voltage 'United India Rally' that is likely to be a show of opposition strength ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.

Rahul Gandhi, the popular politican from Nehru-Gandhi family keep on making headlines every new day. For now he is in news because of his letter to Mamata Banerjee, the current CM of West Bengal. He wrote a letter in support of her "United India rally" in Kolkata on 19 January, tipped to be a major gathering of anti-BJP parties ahead of the national election to be held on May, this year. "The entire opposition is united," the Congress president said in his letter addressed to "Mamata Di".

The apex court of India, the Supreme Court on 18 January 2019 ordered the Kerala police to provide security to two women who recently entered Lord Ayyappa Temple at Sabarimala, despite of protest by Hindu groups.

A grenade blast has been reported in the Lal Chowk area of Srinagar and in Shopian area. Sources confirmed that suspected militants lobbed a grenade at a contingent of the Central Reserve Police Force on Friday, i.e January 18. For now, no immediate reports of injuries or deaths have been reported.

A special CBI court in Panchkula on Thursday sentenced Dera Sacha Sauda sect chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh to life imprisonment in the murder case of journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati.

The Central government on Thursday curtailed the tenure of Special CBI Director Rakesh Asthana, who had a bitter fight with ousted agency Director Alok Verma and who himself faces corruption charges, with immediate effect.