Agartala: The Election Commission (EC) on Friday suspended a sub-divisional police officer (SDPO) and removed two officers in-charge (OCs) for "not taking appropriate action" during attack on a Congress bike rally in West Tripura, officials said.

Bengaluru: The budget session of the Karnataka legislature would start on February 10 and Chief Minister Basvaraj Bommai would table the budget on February 17, State Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister J C Madhuswamy said on Friday.

Kolkata: Ten years after a criminal case was instituted against a university professor for forwarding a cartoon allegedly aimed at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the Alipur Court here on Friday discharged him of the charges.

Bengaluru: Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation on Friday said the employees who were sacked two years ago for participating in wage revision agitation are being re-instated in a phased manner.

Chandigarh: Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was on Friday again granted a 40-day parole, officials said.

Shahjahanpur (UP): An irate man allegedly fed a poisonous substance to neighbour's pigeons, killing 30 of them, after suspecting that he stole his cat, police said on Friday.

Chennai: Tamil Nadu BJP President K Annamalai has defended party colleague Tejasvi Surya, facing flak over the Indigo Airline emergency exit issue, saying the incident involving the Bengaluru South MP was "accidental" and "by mistake."

New York: Google will lay off 12,000 jobs across the globe, its CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Friday, becoming the latest tech giant to retrench staff en mass amid the global economic downturn.