Mumbai: The Shiv Sena (UBT) on Sunday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's statement on short-term politics not helping the country and questioned the manner in which the Bharatiya Janata Party formed a government with the faction led by Eknath Shinde in Maharashtra.

Kolkata: The euphoria surrounding this year's FIFA World Cup has been "unprecedented" in football-mad Kolkata, with nearly 9,000 fans having already travelled to Qatar to witness the showpiece event and many more slated to arrive in the next few days, officials said.

Bengaluru: City Police on Sunday suspended two of its officers from the department for extorting money from a couple after harassing them late at night on December 8.

Bengaluru: As assembly elections in Karnataka are due in the next few months, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has called a meeting of the party's senior leaders from the state on Monday in New Delhi, to discuss the preparations and the strategy for the polls.

Lakhimpur Kheri (UP): The brother of the witness in the last year's Lakhimpur violence was allegedly attacked by a youth, police said on Sunday.

Ahmedabad: As many as 40 newly-elected MLAs in the 182-member Gujarat Assembly have criminal cases pending against them as per their election affidavits, according to the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and the Gujarat Election Watch.

Seoni (MP): A tiger mauled a man to death and injured two others on Sunday, triggering a violent protest in which a veterinarian was injured and six government vehicles damaged at a village in Madhya Pradesh Seoni district, an official said.

More than 200 children have been rescued from Madgaon railway station in South Goa by the authorities so far this year, an official said on Sunday.