Heavy pre-monsoonal rains lashed many parts of Uttar Pradesh on Friday bringing relief from scorching heat but also leaving 30 persons dead in storm and lightning-related accidents, officials said on Friday.
Former Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy said that the news being telecast in the media that BJP leaders have contacted him is far from truth.
Demanded a fair investigation into the Bhima-Koregaon riots, the Congress on Friday slammed BJP's double speak after NDA ally and Union Minister Ramdas Athawale had remarked that it was not right to arrest Dalit rights activists branding them as Maoists.
Portfolios of the ministers in the JD-S-Congress coalition government in Karnataka were allocated on Friday, two days after the ministry was expanded.
Three persons including a child got injured after the rifle of a Railway Protection Force (RPF) constable went off during change of duty at the Dumdum Metro railway station premises here on Friday afternoon, police said.
MLC Basavaraj Horatti said that he missed the ministerial berth in the coalition government as some bluff swamijis spread the rumour against him that he is dividing the Lingayat religion.
“Though the dissident activity is not our problem, I have met MB Patil and discussed as it is the coalition government”, said Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy.
A number of electronic voting machines (EVMs) malfunctioned in two places in the recent bypolls due to "excessive exposure to illumination", the Election Commission (EC) said on Friday.
Desperate over the family problems, a gram panchayat member hanged himself after sending a WhatsApp message to his friends at Lakshmi Nagar in Malpe on Thursday night.
Congress President Rahul Gandhi will address a national convention of the party's Other Backward Classes department here on Monday.
