South Africa defeated Afghanistan after two Super Overs in a thrilling Group D match of the T20 World Cup here on Wednesday.
Revenue Minister Krishna Byre Gowda on Tuesday said that the state government will distribute title deeds to one lakh beneficiaries at a convention to be held in Haveri on February 14, marking 1,000 days of the Congress government in office.
BJP corporator Ritu Tawde was elected mayor of Mumbai on Wednesday, while Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Ghadi became the deputy mayor.
A 16-year-old boy reportedly committed suicide by hanging in his hostel room in Narayanapura village, Basavakalyana taluk, late Tuesday night, leaving behind a death note. The reason for his suicide is not known yet.
A special court in Goa on Wednesday acquitted BJP MLA and minister Atanasio Monserrate in a rape case registered against him nearly a decade ago.
Legislative Assembly Speaker U.T. Khader has been appointed as a member of a four-member Committee of Presiding Officers formed to examine matters related to the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution, which deals with anti-defection provisions, Deccan Herald reported on Wednesday.
The Congress' decision to go solo in the West Bengal assembly polls has narrowed the opposition space, reinforced the state’s entrenched TMC-BJP binary and shifted the focus from alliance arithmetic to vote consolidation in an increasingly two-cornered battle.
NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar, admitted to a private hospital here following a chest infection, is stable and likely to be discharged in the next two days, doctors treating him said on Wednesday.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Wednesday said that the alliance between the DMK and the Congress is intact, dismissing reports of fissures between the two parties.
"Flaws" have been found in the notice submitted by opposition MPs to remove the Lok Sabha speaker from office, with Om Birla directing the secretariat to amend the "defective" notice to prevent it from being rejected, Lok Sabha sources said on Wednesday.
