The Red Cross has called for a 24-hour ceasefire in Yemen to bring in desperately needed medical supplies after fierce fighting. It says medical teams and rescuers must access Aden, a stronghold of those loyal to President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, or more civilians will die. Fighting in the southern port city has intensified with Saudi-led airstrikes aiming to push back Shia Houthi rebels. Russia, too, has called at the United Nations for a truce.

Somali militants vowed to wage a long war against Kenya and run its cities "red with blood" after the group's fighters killed nearly 150 people during an assault on a Kenyan university. Kenyan officials said they had arrested five men in connection with Thursday's attack by Al Shabab gunmen at Garissa university. In a message directed at the Kenyan public, the Al Qaeda-aligned group said the raid was revenge for Kenya's military presence in Somalia and mistreatment of Muslims within Kenya.

After being rescued from war-torn Yemen, another batch of Indians landed in Kochi airport. The situation has worsened with the rebels closing in on Aden port. Today, over 800 Indians have been rescued by the Indian Navy. 

French investigators have ended their search for bodies in the Alps where a Germanwings passenger jet crashed last month, killing all 150 people on board, a local official said. "The search for bodies is over, but the search for the victims' personal belongings is continuing," said a spokesman for the local government authority in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region. The identification of victims will now continue through the analysis of 150 sets of DNA found at site, which could take several weeks. 

37 Indian fishermen remanded in judicial custody till April 17 in Sri Lanka for allegedly poaching in the country's waters. In the recent times, the fishermen's issue has become quite acute with Lanka PM saying that the country would not allow Indians in their waters and would even shoot them down if necessary. 

To involve workers in various social campaigns initiated by the PM, BJP President Amit Shah has formed nine separate committees of senior leaders. The panels will look after initiatives to help the party such as mass contact programme as well social campaigns like Clean India plan, Namami Ganga and 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao'.

Supreme Court Judge Justice Kurian Joseph, who has raised objections with Chief Justice of India H L Dattu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi over holding of a three-day long judges conference during holy weekend for Christians, said he only wanted to raise the "serious concern" about secularism in India. 

Five people are in custody following the Al Shabab attack in eastern Kenya on Thursday which left almost 150 people dead, officials say. Some suspects were arrested while trying to flee to neighbouring Somalia, the internal security ministry said. One is said to be a security guard. At least 148 people died when gunmen attacked Garissa university campus. Four of the gunmen were also killed.

As a woman, it is not uncommon to meet other women who when asked what they do will describe themselves as scientists, bankers, bureaucrats, doctors, teachers, activists, but will always slow down towards the end, hit a pause button on all those achievements, and softly moan: "but I am a mother first" with a strange mix of naivety and affectation. I call this a 'mother-first' syndrome. 

Former Haryana Chief Minister OP Chautala, serving a decade-long jail term by the Delhi high court recently in a teachers' recruitment scam case, was granted a month's parole by the Delhi government.

Should the Internet be touched? That's one way to summarise the 20 questions the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has asked the public in a recent consultation paper. Most questions pertain to whether the hitherto unregulated over-the-top services, typically apps such as Skype and Facebook that ride on telecom networks, need regulation. 

Even as the Indian government continues to evacuate stranded Indians from Yemen from the port of Aden, the processes were hampered today owing to heavy shelling. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted, "There is heavy shelling in Aden.The ship is anchored 5-6 km off the coast. Indian nationals are being taken by boat to board the ship there." Navy officials said that rescue operations had become difficult as Huthi tribals had closed in on Aden port. 

West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi was sworn in as Mizoram governor at the Raj Bhavan. Tripathi was sworn in by Gauhati High Court JudgeJustice Miachael Zothankhuma. The swearing in ceremony was attended by Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla, his cabinet colleagues, legislators and senior government officials. Tripathi was appointed to take additional charge of Mizoram after state governor Aziz Qureshi was sacked by the Centre on March 28.

Three army troopers have died and one is wounded after an avalanche hit a convoy in the cold desert region of Ladakh. A senior police officer said two troopers are still missing and a rescue operation is on in the area. The official added that the avalanche hit three army vehicles near the Changla pass in Leh district of Ladakh late Friday evening.

For only the second time since the BJP was born 35 years ago, LK Advani will not deliver his traditional valedictory address at the party's national executive meeting. 

In what could be termed as one of the biggest doping scandals in recent years, as many as 21 weightlifters have been provisionally suspended by the Indian Weightlifting Federation after testing positive for banned substances. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reportedly asked Health Minister JP Nadda to go ahead with enforcing larger pictorial warnings on cigarette packets after a parliamentary committee said the move should be delayed because there is no local evidence that smoking causes cancer.

A Supreme Court judge, who had earlier objected to a judges' conference being held on Good Friday, has declined a dinner invitation from Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying that he will be in Kerala for religious ceremonies.

As many as 33 Indian fishermen were arrested by Sri Lankan navy for allegedly poaching in the country's waters near Neduntheevu, officials said today. 

The body of Malli Masthan Babu, the Indian mountaineer who went missing in the Andes mountain ranges in Chile, South America, was found by helicopter search teams, his family sources said in Nellore on Saturday.

Facebook and its founder must release documents and electronic correspondence to a defence lawyer whose client has fled from criminal charges that he falsely claimed a majority ownership in the social media giant, a federal judge said. 

India-born ex-Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta's conviction on insider trading charges should not be thrown out as the government provided "overwhelming" proof against him for passing on illegal information in return for "expected potential pecuniary gains," US prosecutors said. 

Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar on Saturday said the administration will find out if the camera spotted by Union Minister Smriti Irani in the "Fabindia" trail room, was an intentional act or not.

The 300-km long Jammu-Srinagar National Highway remained closed for traffic for the fourth consecutive day today due to landslides triggered by heavy rains, leaving over 600 Kashmir-bound passengers are stranded. 

Sarah Kemp Brady, who became an activist for gun control after her husband was shot in the head in the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, has died. 

South Korean military officials have said that North Korea test-fired four short-range missiles off its west coast into the sea.

South Korean military officials have said that North Korea test-fired four short-range missiles off its west coast into the sea.

A police constable and two criminals were killed and a sub inspector left injured in an encounter in the Nalgonda district of Telangana early Saturday morning.

A police constable and two criminals were killed and a sub inspector left injured in an encounter in the Nalgonda district of Telangana early Saturday morning.

US President Barack Obama called Kenya's leader and vowed to stand "hand-in-hand" with its government and people, as they reel from an Islamist attack that killed 148 university students and security officers. 

A woman has been arrested on charges she tried to join and martyr herself for the Islamic State group, a day after two women in New York were charged with plotting to wage jihad by building a bomb and using it for a Boston Marathon-type attack. 

The UN Security Council will meet today to discuss a Russian proposal for humanitarian pauses in the Saudi-led air campaign in Yemen, diplomats said. 

The United States has condemned the latest wave of violence in Syria which has left dozens of civilians dead and displaced thousands more.