Slamming the BJP for mooting Bharat Ratna award for V D Savarkar, Communist Party of India general secretary D Raja on Tuesday said the ruling party may even propose the honour for Mahatma Gandhi's killer Nathuram Godse.
West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday said he felt insulted at the Durga Puja carnival in the city, while also asserting that nothing would deter him from performing his constitutional duties.
As he pitched for wrestler Babita Phogat, the BJP candidate from this constituency, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that Chinese premier Xi Jinping has seen the movie based on her and her father.
A Delhi court on Tuesday extended till October 25 the judicial custody of Congress leader D K Shivakumar, arrested in a money laundering case by the Enforcement Directorate.
Bantwal: A 30-year-old woman committed suicide by jumping off the Netravati River at Barimaru in Bantwal Taluk.
Maharashtra BJP unit on Tuesday said it will ask the party-led NDA government at the Centre to confer Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, popularly known as Veer Savarkar.
Kalburgi: Former JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar's programme which was shifted from Gulbarga University on Tuesday has been as Governor Vajubhai Vala did not give the permission.
A large number of women protesters, including the daughter and the sister of former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah, were detained in Srinagar during protests against ending the state's special status.
Four members of a family died after a fire broke out in their shop-cum-residence here, police said on Tuesday. DIG (Jhansi range) Subhash Singh Baghel said four members of grocer Jagdish Udainiya's family died in the fire which erupted at around 2.30 am.
SMS services were withdrawn as a "precautionary measure" hours after the government restored post-paid mobile connections in Kashmir, officials said on Tuesday.
