Forest Minister R. Shankar said that he would officially join the Congress at an auspicious time.
A Congress councillor, believed to be close to Punjab cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, was Friday "manhandled and slapped" publicly by some unidentified people, police said.
Congress President Rahul Gandhi Friday said he will become prime minister if allies want him but the first step is for all parties to get together and defeat the ruling BJP.
Ganesh Miskin (27), one of two suspects arrested for Kalburgi’s murder, has said that the 77-year-old scholar’s statement, made during a discussion on an anti-superstition Bill, was perceived as “anti-Hindu", and triggered the attack on him.
"Avaravara Bhavakke," a literary work by progressive thinker Prakash Rai will be released in Mysuru on October 7.
A 4.5-magnitude earthquake hit the Indo-Nepal border in Uttar Pradesh Friday afternoon, the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) said.
India reduced West Indies to 94 for 6 after posting 649 for 9 declared in their first innings at stumps on the second day of the opening cricket Test against the West Indies here Friday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday held the India-Russia annual summit after which eight pacts, including on cooperation on India's ambitious human space mission project Gaganyaan, were signed.
Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy Friday asked farmers to submit requisite details to avail of Rs 45,000 crore farm-loan waiver announced by the government and said there is no need to panic as no deadline has been fixed to submit the forms.
The Indian rupee Friday crashed below the 74-level against the US dollar for the first time ever. after the Reserve Bank kept its key policy rate unchanged. The domestic currency was quoted 55 paise lower at 74.13 against the dollar soon after the RBI announced its monetary policy.
