Nearly 10 workers from India died everyday on an average during the last six years in Gulf countries, which contribute over half of total foreign remittances to the country, a voluntary group has said on the basis of RTI replies.

Minister for Minority Welfare, Hajj and Wakf BZ Zameer Ahmed Khan alleged that the BJP has been making the ‘Mysore Tiger’ Tipu Sultan jayanti just for vote bank politics.

A 30-year-old woman has reached the base camp of Sabarimala temple here and sought police protection to offer prayers at the hill shrine after it opened for a two-day special puja Monday evening, an official said.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the crop insurance scheme, alleging that farmers are being "looted" and the 'chowkidaar' has made his intentions clear that "he will steal from others to fill the coffers of his friends".

BJP State president and former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa said that the state government should drop the idea of celebrating Tipu Jayanthi without making it as a prestigious issue, considering the feelings of the people.

Seventy-nine school students were kidnapped on Monday in an English-speaking region of Cameroon where separatists are fighting an armed campaign for independence, a government source said.

Nasir Ahmed, who was elected to the Legislative Council from the Assembly and Prakash Rathod and UB Venkatesh who were nominated to the Council, took oath as new Council Members at the Vidhana Soudha here on Monday.

 The "black box" data recorder from a crashed Lion Air jet shows its airspeed indicator malfunctioned on its last four flights, investigators said Monday, just hours after distraught relatives of victims confronted the airline's co-founder at a meeting organised by officials.