Hyderabad: AIMIM will skip the ceremony for the opening of the new Parliament building on May 28 if it is launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Lok Sabha MP from Hyderabad and party chief Asaduddin Owaisi said here on Wednesday.

The Maharashtra Congress has expelled former MLA Ashish Deshmukh from the party for six years over his public statements against the party leadership.

Kannauj (UP): In a suspected case of food poisoning, around 70 people, including several children, were hospitalised after eating at a wedding feast in a village here, a senior official said on Wednesday.

Senior leader of the JD(S) and former Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy has been unanimously elected as the leader of the JD(S) Legislature Party. Kumaraswamy was elected on Wednesday, at a party meeting held at the Vidhana Soudha.

All political parties are invited to the inauguration of the new Parliament building on May 28 and they will take a "call as per their wisdom", Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Wednesday amidst a boycott call against the event by as many as 19 opposition parties.

In a relief to Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan, an MP-MLA sessions court here on Wednesday overturned the three-year sentence awarded to him by a lower court in a 2019 hate speech case.

Seven persons were killed and more than 15 others injured in two separate road accidents in Dewas and Umaria districts of Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday, officials said.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said neither getting President Droupadi Murmu to inaugurate the new Parliament building nor inviting her to the ceremony is an "insult" to the country's highest constitutional post.