Indore: Alleging that recent communal riots in different states on Ram Navami were "fully sponsored", Congress MP Digvijaya Singh on Wednesday claimed that some Muslim outfits are playing political games by hobnobbing with BJP.
Chennai: Tamil Nadu BJP leaders claimed that there is no compulsion to learn Hindi to prove one is an Indian and said the ancient Tamil language could qualify to become the national link language.
Ranchi: All the seven foxes at Ranchi's Birsa zoo died in the last one month of the highly-contagious canine distemper virus (CDV), officials said on Wednesday.
Gandhinagar: The expenditure on the armed forces is an investment on which one gets full returns and it should not be seen as a burden on the economy, Chief of Army Staff General M M Naravane said on Wednesday.
Hyderabad: A court here on Wednesday acquitted AIMIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi in the "hate speech" cases filed against him in 2013, citing insufficient evidence.
Gorakhpur (UP): Three people, including two teenaged girls, drowned after a boat carrying them capsized in the Gandak river in Kushinagar district of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday morning, police said.
Bengaluru: Karnataka on Wednesday recorded 55 fresh COVID-19 cases and zero fatality, taking the total infections to 39,46,176 till date, the State Health Department said.
Latur: Slamming MNS chief Raj Thackeray for accusing Sharad Pawar of playing caste politics in Maharashtra, Union minister and Dalit leader Ramdas Athawale on Wednesday said the NCP chief never played caste-based politics but always took all sections of society along.
Budaun (UP): Police here on Wednesday booked a man for allegedly making indecent remarks against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
Jaipur: BJP Yuva Morcha National President and Bengaluru MP Tejasvi Surya was on Wednesday detained by Rajasthan Police while he was on his way to visit violence-hit Karauli.
