Riyadh: Total 12 persons died and more than 170 injured in a flash flood due to heavy rains in the North-West part of the country in the last one week, official sources said.
Bengaluru: Hundreds of women walked over 200 kms to reach the state capital Wednesday demanding a blanket ban on the sale and consumption of liquor in Karnataka.
Bengaluru: Union minister Ananth Kumar Hegde, whose comments have often triggered controversies, on Wednesday called Congress president Rahul Gandhi a "hybrid breed", saying how can son of a "Muslim" father and Christian mother be a Brahmin.
Udupi: In a filmy style incident, miscreants who were allegedly kidnapping a girl in a car, pushed her out of the car on the road and fled the scene leaving the car, on national highway 66 at Balaipade near Kinnimulki in the taluk on Wednesday afternoon.
Kochi: Noted Malayalam actor Sreenivasan has been admitted to a hospital here with acute breathlessness, following physical exertion, hospital sources said Wednesday.
Lucknow/Kanpur: Mocking opposition parties for not naming a joint prime ministerial candidate, BJP president Amit Shah Wednesday said there will be a different PM every day of the week if their grand alliance comes to power.
Bengaluru: Amid strains in Congress-JDS ties, Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy Wednesday again threatened to quit if Congress leaders continued to take potshots at him.
New Delhi: The next meeting of the selection committee, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to pick the new CBI director will take place on Friday, Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge, who is also a member of the panel, said on Wednesday.
Bengaluru: Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy said that it was not possible to take a sudden decision on banning liquor in the state.
New Delhi: The Congress will issue a three-line whip to its members of Rajya Sabha to vote against the citizenship bill, party general secretary in-charge for Assam Harish Rawat said Wednesday.
