Drivers of service buses opposed the toll gate set up for the Hejamadi old MBC road and resorted to lightning protest for two hours obstructing the vehicular movement on the road here on Sunday.

Three soldiers were killed and 14 persons injured after a suicide bomber attacked a government office here on Sunday, police said.

In recent days, a hill near Jojatte on the border of Kenjaru gram panchayat and Thokuru 62 is collapsing. As a result, four-five houses nearby the hill are facing the threat. Meanwhile, the KPTCL has erected a high tension power line tower on the same hill and the collapse of the tower cannot be ruled out if the hill tumbled down. Because of this fear, the residents have been staying in their relatives houses during nights. But neither the district administration nor the elected representatives took it seriously, people alleged.

Five people died of asphyxiation inside a septic tank in Odisha's Rayagada district on Sunday, police said. The incident occurred at Paika Sahi of Durgi village, said police.

Miscreants tied up the security personnel of a bank and barged into a mobile shop and jewelry shop and looted mobile phones and jewelry here on Saturday late night.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday made a veiled attack on the Opposition, saying the one who calls for discipline was being branded an "autocrat" as he praised Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu for bringing "discipline" to the House.

Retired IAS officer and former Karnataka Chief Secretary K Ratna Prabha has categorically denied joining the BJP in light of multiple reports suggesting she has joined the Opposition party in the state.

A crucial meeting of the Telangana cabinet was underway on Sunday amid talks that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao was planning to dissolve the state Assembly to go for early polls.