Seventy-five people were rescued in north Kashmir's Kupwara district while efforts are on to rescue another 25 after an avalanche hit a mountain pass, police said on Tuesday.

Jailed Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez urged sympathizers on Monday to maintain street protests against President Nicolas Maduro as the country's foreign minister prepared to meet the United Nations Secretary General.

Ukraine accused Russia of piracy for blocking two of the besieged country's warships and ordering them to surrender or be seized.

Rajbala Ola, daughter-in-law of former Union minister and veteran Jat leader Sis Ram Ola who died recently, will be the Congress candidate from Jhunjhunu constituency for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

The Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA is set to expand further, BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi said on Monday, and accused Congress of raising the bogey of secularism in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections.

Earlier, the RBI had said that it would withdraw from circulation all pre-2005 currency notes from April 1.

BJP on Monday demanded a court- monitored probe into alleged bribery in the purchase of Rolls -Royce aircraft engine and targeted the government once again on the issue of corruption in this context.

Tata Sustainability Group launched a community welfare programme involving its employees to mark the 175th birth anniversary of the conglomerate's founder Jamsetji Tata in the steel city in Jamshedpur on Monday.

Crystal Palace players Jerome Thomas and Marouane Chamakh are to be fined by manager Tony Pulis for diving during Sunday's 1-1 draw in their Premier League match against Swansea City.

The LDF is making efforts to cash in on the situation and this is a subject in their election manifesto.