India's fuel demand in May was unchanged from a year earlier, preliminary government data showed on Saturday, indicating a continued slowdown in various sectors including industrial output. Fuel consumption, a proxy for oil demand, was 18.61 million tonnes in May, data from the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) of the oil ministry showed on Saturday.

A week after it issued an advisory to West-Bengal government to contain the political-violence that has kept the state on edge since before the national-elections, centre has sought a report from Mamata Banerjee administration asking what measures it has taken against those responsible, government sources said. The "unabated violence over the years is evidently a matter of deep-concern", the Home Ministry has said, according-to-sources.

After one positive case and over 300 suspects, the scare of the second attack of Nipah virus in Kerala is over, state Health Minister K.K. Shailaja told the media on Saturday. "Even though the Nipah scare is over and there is no need for complete surveillance, the situation will be under observation till the middle of next month," Shailaja said.