The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government today announced a "tax-free" budget featuring a rationalized Value Added Tax or VAT structure that could bring down the prices of green cars, snacks, clothes and footwear in Delhi. "We had promised lowest VAT rates in the country, that process has been started today," said Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

The Congress' Harish Rawat, chief minister of Uttarakhand till yesterday, met the state's Governor today along with 33 lawmakers and handed him letters of support that he says show that he still has a majority to head a government.

Twenty-nine children are among the nearly 70 people killed by a suicide bomber who attacked a Pakistani park crowded with families on Easter Sunday. A faction of the Taliban which has earlier pledged loyalty to the Islamic State has said the attack was intended to target Christians.

Bail has been granted to the 24 students of the Hyderabad Central University and three others, who were arrested last week amid aggressive protests against PhD student Rohith Vemula's suicide.

President's Rule was imposed in Uttarakhand on Sunday, a day before the crucial trust vote in the state assembly for the Harish Rawat government. The centre justified the move, saying the state government was "unconstitutional" in showing the "failed" Appropriation Bill as passed on March 18. The Congress is likely to move the High Court today to challenge the decision.

Condemning the BJP for what he called the efforts to "murder democracy", Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat today pointed out that there was a "procedure" for the imposition of President's Rule. The Congress, he said, was ready to go the people to give the BJP a fitting reply.

A joint investigation team from Pakistan including officials from Islamabad's intelligence agency Inter Services Intelligence or ISI, Military Intelligence and police arrived in India today to probe the January 2 terror attack at the air force base in Punjab's Pathankot.

Nine Congress legislators from Uttarakhand who had rebelled against Chief Minister Harish Rawat were disqualified by the Speaker late on Saturday. The order meant that Mr Rawat is likely to sail through a trust vote due on Monday.

Kanhaiya Kumar, the Delhi student who was arrested on sedition charges, was not allowed to enter the Hyderabad University where Rohith Vemula committed suicide in January. The university, tense after clashes yesterday, had said no outsiders would be allowed on campus.

A massive manhunt has been launched by Belgium after a series of bombings ripped through Brussels airport and a metro train, killing over 30 people on Tuesday. Belgian authorities released pictures of two of the suspected suicide attackers pushing trollies through the terminal and said they were "actively searching" for a third whose bomb failed to go off.

Three days after a fire broke out at Mumbai's Deonar dumping ground, it has still not been doused. Civic body BMC has said it suspects sabotage behind the second large fire in the city's biggest dumping ground in less than two months.

Delhi's odd-even plan, the traffic experiment to allow vehicles of odd and even numbers on alternate days to reduce pollution and congestion on the capital's roads, is set to make a comeback next month for two weeks starting April 15. The government today announced some of details for the rerun of the scheme.

President Pranab Mukherjee's intervention was formally sought this evening in the political crisis in Uttarakhand, with leaders of the Congress government and the opposition BJP separately pitching to run the hill state.

A fire that broke out at Mumbai's Deonar dumping ground in the eastern suburbs of the city on Saturday evening has still not been doused. This is the second massive fire in city's biggest dumping ground in less than two months. The civic body suspects sabotage behind the fresh fire.

After a meeting with top government officials, Jat leaders in Haryana have promised they will not launch a new round of violent protests - for now - to push their demand for reserved government jobs and college places.