One of the PIL petitioners has moved the Supreme Court opposing SEBI's plea seeking a six-month extension to complete the probe into allegations of stock price manipulation by the Adani group and lapses in regulatory disclosure, saying the market regulator has already got sufficient time to inspect, examine, collect and seize relevant documents.

In a frontal attack on the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the entire politics of the party was based on "divide and rule" policy, and charged it with going across the world defaming the country, when India's democracy and development was being "appreciated and respected globally".

Well-known Tamil actor-director Manobala died here on Wednesday following illness, film industry sources said.

Congress leader Siddaramaiah has declared that he would adopt Badami constituency if the Congress won the Assembly elections this month and regained power in the state.

The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) Chief, Asaduddin Owaisi, criticized the Congress party on Tuesday, stating that the party only makes promises during elections but fails to fulfill them later. He cited the example of the Babri Masjid demolition, where the Congress had promised to rebuild the mosque but failed to do so.

A special court here which acquitted all the 67 accused in the Naroda Gam post-Godhra riots case has criticised the probe conducted into it by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed by the Supreme Court and said the evidence of the prosecution's witnesses was full of contradictions and could not be relied upon.

The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday conducted searches at multiple premises linked to non-banking finance company Manappuram Finance in Kerala as part of a money laundering investigation against it, official sources said.

Decrying the promise in the Congress election manifesto that Bajrang Dal will be banned if they are voted to power, Karnataka Energy Minister V Sunil Kumar said the move is to appease the Muslims.