Amid the ongoing West Asia conflict, India has supplied 22,000 metric tonnes of high-speed diesel to Bangladesh in March and has received a request from Seychelles and the Maldives to meet their energy requirements, the MEA said on Friday.

Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar claimed on Friday that Congress MLA Vinay Kulkarni, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in a murder case, has become a victim of a BJP conspiracy because he was growing politically in the north Karnataka region.

On the defeat of the Constitution Amendment Bill in the Lok Sabha, Chief Minister M K Stalin on Friday said, "Tamil Nadu defeats Delhi; TN fought, TN won".

The Gujarat Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has registered a case against a police inspector and arrested his aide for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 2 lakh from a man by threatening to implicate him in a “love jihad” case under the provisions of the Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act.

Tehran: The Iranian government on Friday declared that the Strait of Hormuz is completely open for commercial ships for the remaining period of the ceasefire, ⁠in line with that in Lebanon.

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Friday said he has no personal involvement in action taken against certain Congress leaders from the minority community following allegations of an internal conspiracy during the recently held Davanagere South bypolls.

The death toll in the April 14 blast at Vedanta's power plant in Chhattisgarh's Sakti district has gone up to 21 after a worker succumbed to injuries, officials said on Friday.

Companies are being arm-twisted to divert their investments from Karnataka despite the state having the best talent ecosystem, state's IT, biotech and rural development minister Priyank Kharge said on Friday.