BREAKING: ‘Waris Punjab De’ head Amritpal Singh’s supporters clash with police in Amritsar

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will participate in a roadshow here and will address an election rally in Tura in western Meghalaya on Friday in support of BJP candidates for the February 27 state assembly elections, a senior party leader said.

A court in Maharashtra's Palghar district on Thursday adjourned the hearing on the bail application of TV actor Sheezan Khan, arrested in the Tunisha Sharma suicide case, to Friday. After police sought time to respond to the bail application, the Vasai sessions court adjourned the hearing. Khan, arrested for alleged abetment of his co-actor Tunisha Sharma's suicide, is lodged in judicial custody, PTI reported.

Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will form the government with full majority in Karnataka and urged people to repose faith in Prime Minister Narendra Modi and former chief minister BS Yediyurappa.

The Delhi BJP on Thursday demanded a fresh poll to elect MCD standing committee members, alleging irregularities by the Aam Aadmi Party during the election process last night.

Party MP Parvesh Verma told a press conference, also addressed by BJP MP Manoj Tiwari, that newly-elected Mayor Shelly Oberoi of the AAP allowed members to carry mobile phones to the booth area while casting their votes, despite objection by BJP councillors.

Rescuers with backhoes and bulldozers dug through tons of earth and rubble Thursday for 48 people missing after a landslide buried an open-pit mine in northern China. State broadcaster CCTV reported that the death toll in the disaster rose to five, AP reported.

Supreme Court begins hearing the plea related to the arrest of Congress leader Pawan Khera.

Supporters of 'Waris Punjab De' Chief Amritpal Singh break through police barricades with swords and guns outside Ajnala PS in Amritsar.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear plea related to the arrest of Congress leader Pawan Khera at 3pm.

After hours of drama at the Delhi airport involving the Delhi Police and the Assam Police and senior Congress leader Pawan Khera, the Congress claimed that the Assam police detained Khera from the airport tarmac. "The Assam police is arresting Pawan Khera. Read more.

Passengers on the Raipur-bound Indigo flight from which Congress leader Pawan Khera was deplaned, have been asked to deboard the plane as well and told that they will be put on another flight, news agency PTI reported.

Bombay HC has quashed money laundering case filed by ED against Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal and his wife on Thursday.

ED has summoned Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's PA for questioning in connection with its ongoing probe into the excise scam, reported PTI.

Luxury items were found in conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar’s jail cell. CCTV visuals from Mandoli jail shared by sources show Sukesh after raids caught items in his jail cell, a video posted by news agency ANI showed.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has started budget presentation in state assembly.

A defamation case was registered against Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Wednesday night for making claims that Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde's son Shrikant Shinde is posing a threat to his life.

Union Minister for Home and Cooperation, Amit Shah, will be setting foot in Karnataka capital Bengaluru today to address a public meeting and discuss strategy with senior BJP leaders to give a fresh impetus to the party's preparations for the upcoming assembly elections in the state. Read more.

“I have been a member of the Congress party for last 22 years, but unfortunately over a period of time, I feel in INC, the attitude and approach were neither constructive nor concrete. The values which I worked for, had changed,” CR Kesavan to news agency ANI, on his resignation from Congress party.

MCD House was adjourned for the day without electing 6 standing committee members following the overnight ruckus between AAP-BJP members.

In the recent nationwide raids of the National Investigation Agency at 76 locations across eight states, six people have been arrested including close associates of gangsters Lawrence Bishnoi, Jaggu Bhagwanpuria and Goldy Brar.

Air Intelligence Unit of Hyderabad Customs in coordination with Airport Customs, recovered about 15 Kgs of gold after 23 Sudan nationals who arrived at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport and were intercepted yesterday, reported ANI quoting Customs.

Police have imposed Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) to prohibit unlawful assembly of eunuchs at public places in Maharashtra's Nagpur city for two months following extortion complaints against them, officials said. There have been complaints that eunuchs visit public places, traffic signals, houses of people, wedding functions and other programmes without being invited, indulge in obscene acts, and threaten citizens to extort money from them, a release from the Nagpur police said, reported PTI. 

US President Joe Biden on Wednesday offered fresh criticism of Russia's suspension of a key nuclear treaty, but stressed there was no indication Moscow was moving closer to actually using an atomic weapon.

"It's a big mistake to do that, not very responsible," Biden told ABC News in Poland on the sidelines of a meeting with NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg and eastern European leaders in Warsaw. (AFP)

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Tajikistan on Thursday, the US Geological Survey said.

The quake struck around 5:37 am local time (0037 GMT) at a depth of about 20.5 kilometres (12.7 miles).

USGS estimated that "little or no population" will be exposed to landslides from the quake, reported AFP.