New Delhi: Congress on Thursday asked all of its MLAs from Himachal Pradesh to report to Chandigarh in a bid to avoid possibility of poaching.

A man, claiming to be a BJP worker, attempted to set himself on fire in front of Rajiv Gandhi statue here on Thursday as the Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra passed by.

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has set aside and declared void the 2018 election of Bharatiya Janata Party leader Rahul Singh Lodhi as Member of Legislative Assembly from Khargapur constituency after finding him at fault for furnishing wrong information in his nomination papers.

The additional district and sessions court here has sentenced a 49-year old man to 15 years of rigorous imprisonment under the POCSO Act for sexually assaulting a minor girl for one year in 2016.

Heavy rainfall is predicted over several parts of Tamil Nadu as cyclone 'Mandous' over the Bay of Bengal is expected to cross the coast between Puducherry and Sriharikota in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh on the midnight of December 9, the India Meteorological Department said on Thursday.

A native of Bantwal, who had been working overseas as a car driver, died in a road accident in Qatar on Thursday.

Ahmedabad: Minutes after the BJP crossed the 150-seat mark in the projection and trends, the Congress party almost conceded the election to the BJP. The party reportedly shut down the vote counter clocks outside the party’s head office in the state.

The Kerala High Court on Thursday dismissed two pleas seeking a declaration that CPI(M) legislator and former state Minister Saji Cheriyan is not entitled to hold the office of MLA in view of his speech allegedly insulting the Indian Constitution.