A married woman and her lover were arrested on Friday for allegedly being involved in the kidnap and murder of a youth in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district, police said.
One of the accused in journalist Gauri Lankesh murder, KT Naveen Kumar of Sangh Parivar, who was arrested in the case, had stayed in a Mangaluru Ashrama along with his wife, on the day Gauri was killed, sources in the SIT said.
After getting a windfall in the form of a Rajya Sabha seat, Kerala Congress-Mani on Friday night named party supremo K.M. Mani's son Jose K. Mani, the sitting Kottayam Lok Sabha member, as its candidate.
Slamming the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for forging an alliance with the PDP in Jammu and Kashmir, the Congress on Friday said it has never compromised with secularism for the sake of power and would never do so in future as well.
A teenaged girl was found dead in mysterious circumstances in a prominent five star hotel here, hours after she checked in there with her boyfriend, police said on Friday.
Slamming the Uttar Pradesh government for "protecting the corrupt", the Congress on Friday referred to Governor Ram Naik's letter to the Chief Minister regarding a bribery demand accusation against a senior officer in the CMO.
In the JDS-Congress coalition government, Mangaluru MLA UT Khader got Urban Development and Housing portfolios, which were allotted today.
Heavy pre-monsoonal rains lashed many parts of Uttar Pradesh on Friday bringing relief from scorching heat but also leaving 30 persons dead in storm and lightning-related accidents, officials said on Friday.
Former Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy said that the news being telecast in the media that BJP leaders have contacted him is far from truth.
Demanded a fair investigation into the Bhima-Koregaon riots, the Congress on Friday slammed BJP's double speak after NDA ally and Union Minister Ramdas Athawale had remarked that it was not right to arrest Dalit rights activists branding them as Maoists.
