Bengaluru: Vijayanagar Congress MLA who submitted his resignation from the assembly on Monday clarified that he did not resign as he was not included in the cabinet. He added that he resigned in the best of interest of the farmers and youth.

The CBI Tuesday launched a "special drive" against alleged bank fraudsters across the country registering 14 separate cases involving Rs 640 crore of siphoned funds and carrying out coordinated searches at 50 locations in 18 cities across the country, officials said.

Kasargod: A 26-year old youngster from Kasargod, on-board train travelling to Kasargod from Mumbai died after falling off the train in Kasargod on Tuesday here in Goa.

The Singapore High Court has ordered freezing of bank deposits worth Rs 44.41 crore, kept in that country by PNB fraud accused Nirav Modi's sister and brother-in-law, as part of a money laundering probe in India, the ED said Tuesday.

Tension prevailed Monday in old Delhi's Chawri Bazaar area after a fight over parking a scooter took a communal turn and a temple was vandalised in the locality, police said.

The Centre Tuesday said the BJP- led Uttar Pradesh government's move to include 17 communities belonging to OBCs in the Scheduled Castes (SC) list was not in accordance with the Constitution as only Parliament has the right to do so.

On Monday, 97 years after seven freedom fighters were hanged by the British, Malegaon’s “Shahidon ki Yaadgaar” (martyrs’ memorial) monument witnessed an equally important historic event, according to the organisers, with at least 1 lakh people from the Muslim community congregating at the historical site in response to a call for a law against mob lynching.

Noted Kannada writer Sarah Aboobacker has won a legal battle against the makers of the 2011 national award-winning film 'Byari,' which she claimed was based on her much-acclaimed novel 'Chandragiriya Teeradalli.'