Mangaluru: IAS officer Akash Shankar has started the probe into the recent controversy at the St. Gerosa Higher Primary School in the city, on Monday.

Chennai: A Chennai court has handed down a one-month prison sentence and imposed a fine of Rs 15,000 on senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former MLA S Ve Shekher. The case pertains to an offensive social media post targeting women journalists that Shekher had shared in April 2018.

Kolkata: Accusing the West Bengal government of stifling the voices of numerous women in Sandeshkhali during protests against alleged TMC-led atrocities, National Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Rekha Sharma on Monday demanded imposition of President's Rule in the state.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday directed that Election Commission's order of February 7 granting name of 'Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar' for the group led by Sharad Pawar will continue till further orders.

Bengaluru: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Monday claimed he has information' that JD (S) leader H D Kumaraswamy was making offers to Congress MLAs to buy their votes for the February 27 Rajya Sabha elections in the state.

A landslide triggered by heavy rain and snowfall buried more than two dozen houses in a remote village in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least five people and leaving more than 20 others missing, a provincial official said Monday.

The Kerala High Court on Monday upheld the conviction of the accused in the T P Chandrasekharan murder case of 2012.

The Supreme Court has suggested declaring the results of the Chandigarh mayoral polls by counting the existing ballot papers, disregarding the marks made by the Returning Officer, instead of opting for a fresh election.