Touring Karnataka ahead of next year’s assembly elections on Saturday, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi asked party workers to set aside individual ambitions and work together to bring it back to power. HT reports.
A woman today raised slogans and waved black flag against Congress President Sonia Gandhi when she began her address at a Lingayat mutt in Karnataka's Tumkur.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi today visited Nagasamudra in the district which has been hit by severe drought.
Observing that fratricide among Tamil groups in Sri Lanka had weakened the Eelam (separate homeland) struggle, DMK chief M Karunanidhi today urged his partymen to dedicate themselves to reviving the cause peacefully as advocated by Mahatma Gandhi.
Stressing the importance of a national agency to curb internal and external terrorist threats to the country, Minister of State in the PMO V Narayanasamy today said a National Counter Terrorism Centre was essential to avoid incidents like the recent abduction of Odisha MLA Jhina Hikaka and Sukma collector Alex Paul Menon.
Stating that the recent suspension of Congress MPs from Parliament is an "insult to Telangana itself", TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday asked the MPs to quit Congress and join the "separate statehood movement".
Home minister P Chidambaram's son Karti is planning to take legal action against Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy who had yesterday levelled allegations against his investments in a telecom company.
St Aloysius College in Karnataka's port city Mangalore has banned girl students from wearing burqa in classes and while writing exams, but allowed them to wear the outfit on the campus.
After families of two fishermen shot dead by marines onboard 'Enrica Lexie' reached a compromise with Italian authorities, the owner of the boat in which the victims were out for fishing has also agreed to settle the case.
BJP's Puducherry State committee on Thursday sought a CBI probe into the implementation of a scheme to distribute subsidy to poor families to convert huts into concrete houses in the Union Territory.
A two-foot long snake found in the handbag of a woman tourist from Kerala, created a flutter in the lobby and reception hall of a hotel in this tourist town today.
A small private aircraft, owned by a Kerala-based business group, has made an emergency landing at Kochi International Airport, officials said today.
After their suspension from Lok Sabha for obstructing proceedings, eight Congress MPs today protested by blocking Parliament's main gate for 30 minutes and raised pro-Telangana slogans.
Country's first indigenous all-weather Radar Imaging Satellite (RISAT-1), whose images will facilitate agriculture and disaster management, was today launched successfully on board the PSLV-C19 from Sriharikota.
Veteran journalist Kuldip Nayar today said he would lead a movement against the proposed Supreme Court guidelines to the media on court reporting which he termed as 'tantamount to another kind of Emergency."