Bengaluru: Former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda said on Monday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah were not behind Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa's decision to order a CBI probe into the alleged phone-tapping scandal during the previous Congress-JD(S) government headed by his son H D Kumaraswamy.

Bengaluru: Former Karnataka Chief Minister and Senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Monday slammed CM Yediyurappa for claiming that working on his advise he had ordered CBI investigation into the phone tapping allegations.

Most educational institutions in five sensitive border districts of Jammu reopened after a fortnight on Monday with "full attendance" as authorities lifted curbs in large parts of the region, officials said.

Former prime minister Manmohan Singh was elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan on Monday.  He was declared elected unopposed as the deadline for the withdrawal of nominations for the bypoll ended. 

An earthquake of magnitude 4.2 jolted parts of Kutch district in Gujarat on Monday afternoon, officials said. No loss of life or damage to property was reported, a district administration official said.

 Navneeth Murali, an Indian-American teenager from New Jersey, has won the 2019 South Asian Spelling Bee contest by correctly spelling "flipe" to earn the annual title and USD 3,000 grand prize.

Mangaluru: Rubbishing the reports that final post-mortem report of Café Coffee Day founder and Businessman BG Siddharta has come out, Mangaluru Police Commissioner Dr. PS Harsha said that those are rumors and the final post-mortem report is yet to come out.

 The ED has summoned former finance minister P Chidambaram in connection with its money-laundering probe in an alleged aviation scam during the UPA dispensation, officials said on Monday.