CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury Monday said the "faulty" policies of the BJP-led central government had pushed the Indian economy to its "worst ever crisis" and were also behind the recent spate of agrarian movements across the country.

Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy said that the resignation letter given by BSP MLA N. Mahesh to his ministerial post was forwarded to the Governor for further action.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi said Monday that a one-slab Goods and Services Tax (GST) would be implemented if his party is elected to power at the Centre.

Indian Association of People's Lawyers (IAPL) to which activist Arun Ferreira belonged had no connection with the Naxals, his lawyer told the court here Monday.

Police and RTO officials on Monday seized more than 34 city service private buses on charges of violating the norms in the city.

Four persons including a mother and her daughter died when lightning struck them during a rain coupled with gusty wind and lightning, in the district on Monday.

Most of the Rohingya refugees who had taken shelter in West Bengal have left allegedly out of fear of deportation and the only existing camp in South 24 Parganas district has six of its 29 inmates left, a spokesman of the organisation which had arranged their stay said on Monday.

SP Divya Gopinath said that the police have arrested total nine accused including main accused Sujay Bhargav in the former mayor Ravikumar alias Gadda Ravi murder case in the city.