Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that over 3,500 Maoists have surrendered in 2014-17 due to government policies, asserting there has been a drop of over 20 per cent in violence in Naxal-hit areas.

As dissent has erupted in BJP against the party’s Bengaluru in-charge R. Ashok following the party’s failure to get BBMP’s control, the pressure is mounting to replace him, and a few leaders in BJP have decided to complain party high command.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Guajrat on Sunday where he would inaugurate a number of projects including Amuls modern chocolate plant at Anand, Mundra LNG terminal at Anjar and Mahatma Gandhi Museum at Rajkot.

Hours after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday described the proposed amendment to the Electricity Act 2003 as "anti-people" and "anti-federal", the BJP hit back, saying it reflects the city government is hand in glove with private companies to loot people with extra-ordinarily high power tariff.

A car was completely mangled in a series of accident that took place near Pandit House in Kuthar in the outskirts of the city on Saturday night.

Though rarely clubbed together, the disparate figures of Deen Dayal Upadhyay, Ram Manohar Lohia and Babasaheb Ambedkar were made allies in a speech by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, when he invoked the three modern India philosophers to conclude that they held "same views" on education and placed "character-building" higher than its other features.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Rafale fighter jet deal, falling rupee and hike in fuel prices.

"If we do not act now, we will have to deal with conflagration later," India's External Affairs Minister warned Saturday as she renewed India's calls for international action against terrorism with a scathing attack on Pakistan's support for terror.