Samira Shaikh With Agency Inputs

• 13 dead as boat capsizes in Odisha's Hirakud reservoir

  At least 13 people, including five women and two children, have died and 20 others are missing after a boat carrying over 100 people capsized on the Hirakud reservoir in Odisha's Sambalpur district on Sunday.

• Lehar weakens into a depression as it crosses Andhra Pradesh coast

  Lehar crossed the Andhra Pradesh coast as a depression at 2 pm with wind speed of around 40 kmph, the weather department said. It is expected to further weaken into a low pressure area in the next 12 hours.

• Patna Blasts: Centre seeks report, rushes NIA team

  The Home Ministry today sought a report from the Bihar government after five people were killed and at least 80 injured in seven blasts which took place at Patna's Gandhi Maidan, the venue for BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's rally. The Centre has sent a team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) to assist in further investigations.

• First verdict for Delhi gang-rape due next week

  A juveniles' court in Delhi is set to hand down the first verdict next week over December's fatal gang-rape of a student which provoked mass protests and new laws to punish crimes against women.

• India gets 1 lakh crore cheap food scheme, cabinet clears ordinance

  The government has launched a Rs 1.25 lakh crore welfare scheme on Wednesday to give cheap food to nearly 70 per cent of the population, a scheme that's been planned as a centre-piece of the ruling Congress party's plan to win a third term in office in elections due by May 2014.

• 60,000 stranded in Uttarakhand, more than 100 dead

  With the weather improving after days of torrential rainfall, rescue operations are in full swing in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. 60,000 people remain stranded; 102 have been killed.

• Uttarakhand rain: 60,000 stranded, 100 dead

  With the weather improving after days of torrential rainfall, rescue operations are in full swing in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. Rainfall in Uttarakhand has been 450 per cent higher than normal. Congress president Sonia Gandhi and the Prime Minister will go on a two-hour survey of flood-affected areas in Uttarakhand in a helicopter today.

• 1500 tourists stranded in Himachal Pradesh after heavy rain

  Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh and around 1,500 tourists were stuck in the Sangla Valley after the area was cut off due to landslides.

• BJP, rebel Yeddyurappa lose big in Karnataka civic polls

  In a blow for the ruling BJP just two months before Assembly elections are held in Karnataka, the Congress has won big in the state's urban local body elections, bettering its 2007 numbers. The big flop of the election - BS Yeddyurappa.

• Is Centre's job just to forward warnings, asks BJP's Sushma Swaraj

  Hyderabad bomb blasts: In Parliament today, Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj was fiercely critical of the government for not being able to prevent last evening's terror attack in Hyderabad in which 16 people were killed and nearly 120 injured.

• Hyderabad bomb blasts: Centre's top investigative team reaches site

  Hyderabad bomb blast: A team of top officials from the National Investigation Agency or NIA and the Intelligence Bureau has reached Hyderabad, where two blasts have killed at least 14 people and injured 119 yesterday evening.

• Hyderabad blasts: Centre's top investigative team rushed from Delhi

  The Centre has rushed a team of top officials from the National Investigation Agency or NIA and the Intelligence Bureau to Hyderabad, where two blasts have killed at least 14 people and injured nearly 80 this evening.