Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday said that the Congress party does not trust its own MLAs and candidates hence is trying to negotiate with the MLAs of other parties ahead of the counting day of the Karnataka Assembly Election.

The California Senate has overwhelmingly passed a legislation seeking to explicitly ban caste discrimination, in a historic move that would make America's most populous State also the country's first to outlaw caste-based bias.

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and other BJP leaders held a meeting with BJP veteran leader and former Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Friday, at Yediyurappa’s house ‘Kaveri’, apparently to discuss the BJP strategy in relation to the Assembly elections.

A special bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday granted bail to former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan for two weeks in a corruption case.

The Supreme Court on Friday sought replies of the West Bengal and Tamil Nadu governments on a plea of the producers of "The Kerala Story" challenging the ban in the two states.

With the Karnataka assembly election results looming, exit polls have predicted a close three-cornered contest with the possibility of a hung verdict. The Janata Dal (Secular) JD(S) has emerged as a potential kingmaker, and senior party leader H D Kumaraswamy has announced that the party is willing to form an alliance with any political party that accepts their conditions.

Thirty-six students of PGIMER's National Institute of Nursing Education (NINE) here were barred from leaving hostel for a week for not attending a programme where the 100th episode of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Mann Ki Baat' was broadcast.

West Bengal government has taken precautionary measures to combat possible devastation by Cyclone Mocha and has shifted residents of low lying and coastal areas of the state to safe shelters, an official said on Friday.