New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad who quit the party Friday said he would form his own party in Jammu and Kashmir "soon".

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday said the state government will decide on implementing the court order regarding allowing religious and cultural activities at the Chamrajpet Idgah playground for a limited period from August 31 in "letter and spirit", after holding discussions with the Advocate General.

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has quashed an FIR registered against a government school teacher here for carrying a live cartridge to the airport while asking him to take extra classes for weak students in his school for a month.

New Delhi: In a hard-hitting attack, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Friday called the BJP a "serial killer of state governments" and said he wanted to face a trust vote on August 29 to prove that no MLA of his Aam Aadmi Party defected and the saffron party's "Operation Lotus" turned out "operation kichad", or mud-slinging, in Delhi.

Bengaluru: Amid speculation on him joining the BJP following his meeting with Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and Health Minister K Sudhakar, Congress Working Committee member K H Muniyappa on Friday said there is no question of him leaving the party.

Former Jamaat-e-Islami Hind Amir and reputed Muslim scholar Maulana Jalaluddin Umri passed away on Friday August 26. He was 87.

Kochi: The Kerala High Court on Friday directed the State government to issue necessary orders to close down if any religious place or prayer hall is functioning without necessary permission, observing that the people of the southern State were "exhausted with religious places and prayer halls."

Bengaluru: A Division Bench of the High Court of Karnataka on Friday modified an interim order of a Single Judge Bench on the Chamrajpet Idgha playground dispute, saying religious and cultural activities can be allowed by the government there, but for a limited period from August 31.