India's Strategic Forces Command Saturday successfully test-fired its indigenously developed nuclear capable Prithvi-II missile during night time as part of a user trial by the Army from a test range in Odisha, defence sources said.

A senior official of National Insurance Company at nearby Eluru was arrested by CBI while accepting Rs 19,000 as bribe from a man to settle a long pending insurance claim, the agency said here Saturday.

The Opposition parties in Maharashtra Saturday sought the support of the Congress to defeat the BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha and state Assembly polls.

Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Saturday said Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana has grown substantially in Odisha with LPG penetration rising from 20 lakh households in 2014 to 73 lakh.

KPCC President Dinesh Gundu Rao said that though there was no need to conduct by-election to three Lok Sabha constituencies like Shivamogga, Ballary and Mandya as they have very short term, the Election Commission has declared elections to those constituencies.

Scores of farmers of Modinagar area led by RLD vice-president Jayant Chaudhary carried out Saturday a protest rally against the BJP government.

Villagers boycotted five families for encouraging the love marriage at Naguvanahalli in Srirangapatna taluk.

Bypolls to three Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka will be held on November 3, Election Commission said Saturday.