New Delhi: Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi is set to take oath on Sunday for a third straight term as the head of a coalition government after two full tenures in which the BJP enjoyed a majority on its own.

New York: Pacer Ottneil Baartman registered his best bowling figures of 4 for 11 as South Africa produced a fine bowling effort to restrict Netherlands to 103 for nine in a T20 World Cup match here on Saturday.

Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala government on Saturday ordered a probe into a ragging complaint filed by a student of a state-run school in Wayanad district.

New Delhi: Congress leaders are yet to receive invitations for Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony on June 9, the party said on Saturday and also claimed that Modi had lost political and moral authority as he "did not get" the people's mandate in the Lok Sabha polls.

Bhubaneswar: In his first comments on his aide V K Pandian after the shocking defeat in the elections, BJD supremo and former Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday said criticism of Pandian for the party's debacle was "unfortunate" and asserted that he did an "excellent job".

Bengaluru: Ahead of the BJP led-NDA government's formation on Sunday, Karnataka's Minister for Commerce and Industries and Infrastructure, MB Patil called the upcoming government weaker stating, "Now Narendra Modi is becoming the Prime Minister for the third time. BJP is weaker this time than the last two times. Therefore, it is not possible to say how long his government will last this time. Especially, we know how difficult it is to run a government with a person like Nitish Kumar."

Shirva: Indian Army Soldier, Muhammad Salim (35), a resident of Belle Kuntalanagar, passed away on June 7 at the Military Hospital in Bengaluru due to a kidney illness.

New Delhi: Haryana is not releasing to Delhi its share of 1,050 cusecs of water through the Munank canal, the city government's Water Minister Atishi alleged on Saturday.