Eight people were taken into preventive custody from the temple complex Tuesday night based on intelligence report that they were at the hill shrine to create trouble, the police said.

A turnout of 71.93 per cent was recorded till 6 PM in the second phase of assembly elections in Chhattisgarh on Tuesday and polling remained incident-free, the Election Commission said.

Housing and Urban Development Minister UT Khader said that for the first time in the country, the state government is bringing in new telecom policy to set up telecom tower in Karnataka.

"Writing is very clear on the wall", the Supreme Court warned the embattled real estate firm Amrapali Group on Tuesday over its repeated non-compliance and "hood-winking" of the court's order.

Sindhu B Roopesh, 2011 batch IAS officer, took over the charge as the Udupi Zilla Panchayat CEO here on Tuesday.

For the first time in the state, both the hands of a brain-dead 22-year-old youth were donated to a 31-year-old person who lost his both the hands in a crusher tragedy at a factory in Puducherry.

Yashpal Singh's sentence makes it the first death punishment in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots

Urban Development and District Minister UT Khader said that Revenue Minister RV Deshpande would officially inaugurate Kadaba and Moodabidri taluks on November 25.