Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader and former Union Minister Y.S. Chowdary on Tuesday accused its former ally BJP of "violating the principles of friendship and political morality" and trying to expand in Andhra Pradesh at the expense of his party.

The Mangaluru West Zone IGP Arun Chakravarthy, who arrived at Udupi today, visited the Shiroor Mutt and began the investigation into the mysterious death of Shiroor Swamiji.

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday said that Congress President Rahul Gandhi is not the only leader from the opposition in the race for the Prime Minister's post.

 Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday dismissed as "baseless" the allegations of a 50 per cent jump in deposits by Indians in Swiss banks and said the Congress was trying to tarnish India's image on the international stage by "spreading lies".

Ganesh Miskin of Hubballi, who has been arrested by SIT in connection with the assassination of Journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh, is reportedly the head of RSS band.

After a five-storey building collapsed here on Sunday killing two people, the Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) has sealed 84 illegally constructed buildings, an official said on Tuesday.

A 25-year-old Muslim man was allegedly beaten up by a group of people at a Ghaziabad court where he had gone to marry a Hindu woman, police said on Tuesday.

Syntel co-founders, Bharat Desai and his wife Neerja Sethi, have seen their rankings dive on the Forbes Richie Rich lists in the past few years. Desai, who was ranked the richest Indian-American in the World Billionaires list in 2014, came in at No. 1999 in the 2018 rankings. Similarly, Sethi ranked 21st on the magazine's list of America's 60 self-made richest women, down from rank 14 in 2015.