Rajasthan's ruling BJP on Thursday captured 13 seats out of 27 in local body by-elections held recently in 17 districts of the state.
A domestic help at Romanian couple's house here was found hanging in her quarter, police said on Thursday.
The Congress on Thursday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of protecting Nirav Modi in the Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud case and sought a reply from Ministry of External Affairs on the absconding diamantaire's travel spree using a revoked passport.
Mangaluru-based rationalist and Rationalists Association national president Prof Narendra Nayak lodged a complaint against hatching out a plot for the third time to kill him after the murder of rationalist Prof MM Kalburgi and journalist Gauri Lankesh.
Though Congress President Rahul Gandhi's Iftar party was not attended by many heavyweight opposition leaders, the party said the "opposition unity was gaining strength" and many leaders could not come as they were in their state capitals.
When the SIT officials interrogated the main accused in the journalist Gauri Lankesh murder case, Parashuram Waghmore, they found that the accused have formed four teams to carry out the crime.
In a record-breaking sale at an online auction on Thursday, Tyeb Mehta's iconic painting "Kali" (1989) was sold at a whooping Rs 26.4 crore, setting a new record for the artist.
A status posted by a BJP youth leader in social media supporting Parashuram Waghmore, the main accused in the journalist Gauri Lankesh murder case, has gone viral and created a controversy.
A man, who suspected his wife's character, strangled her to death here on Thursday, police said.
Excluding coastal region, all other parts of the state would celebrate the Eid-ul-Fitr on Saturday, according to state moon sighting committee convener Maulana Sageer Ahmed Khan.
