AICC president Rahul Gandhi said that as Prime Minister Narendra Modi has helped mining czars to come out of the jails and competing for sending them to Assembly, people should not allow them to enter the Assembly again.

Strongly reacting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement in Twitter that only Congress leaders and their relatives are happy in the states where Congress is in power, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah asked Modi to verify the properties of Jay Shah, son of BJP national president Amith Shah.

A day after police arrested the kingpin of a carcass meat selling racket in the city, another linkman of the racket was arrested from the Kolkata airport area, police said on Friday.

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said that first BJP leaders should appeal Prime Minister Narendra Modi to fulfill the assurance of crediting Rs 15 lakh to the bank accounts of each citizen.

BJP candidate for Udupi assembly segment and former MLA K Raghupathi Bhat on Friday sought votes on the premises of Jamia Masjid here after the prayer.

President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday said India is going through an epidemiological transition and faces three challenges in disease control.

 In a horrific incident, a 16-year-old girl was gang raped and subsequently burnt to death in front of her family members in Jharkhand's Chatra district on Friday.

Hitting out at the BJP's Karnataka manifesto, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that it had nothing unique to offer voters.