New Delhi: Senior BJP leader and former Union Minister J P Nadda was appointed as party's working president during a parliamentary board meeting on Monday.

Chikkamagaluru: A 9-year-old girl, who was playing in saree swing, was choked to death after the saree got knotted around her neck in Hukkunda village here on Sunday evening. The incident came to the light lately.

Bengaluru: Against the backdrop of the alleged financial fraud involving IMA jewels here, Revenue minister R V Deshpande Monday said Congress MLA R Roshan Baig had introduced the firm's owner Mohammed Mansoor Khan to him about two months ago but denied doing any undue favour.

Mumbai: Diamantaire Mehul Choksi, a key accused in the multi-crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam, on Monday told the Bombay High Court that he left India for medical check-up and not to avoid prosecution in the case.

Kolkata: The protesting doctors in West Bengal on Monday agreed to withdraw their week-long stir after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced steps to scale up security at hospitals.

Srinagar: Militants on Monday attacked an army convoy with an improvised explosive device (IED) in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, barely four months after a suicide attack on a CRPF convoy killed 40 troopers in the same district.

Dubai: A 25-year-old Indian man has drowned off a popular beach in the UAE as he went for a "regular swim" with his friends, a media report said Monday.

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Monday urged the protesting doctors to call off their strike and report to work in the best of interest of the patients who have been impacted due to the strike and suspension of medical services.