Kolkata/Guwahati: A Mumbai man managed to reach Guwahati on time to marry his lady love on Sunday, thanks to the help from railways that detained a connecting train in Howrah station and shifted the wedding guests to another train on battery-operated vehicles.

Imphal: The National People's Party (NPP), led by Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma, has withdrawn its support from the BJP-led government in Manipur. The decision comes amidst ongoing unrest in the state, with the NPP attributing its move to dissatisfaction with the leadership of Chief Minister N Biren Singh.

Imphal: Irate mobs set fire to the residences of three more BJP legislators, one of whom is a senior minister, and a Congress MLA in various districts of Imphal Valley even as security forces foiled the attempt of agitators to storm the ancestral residence of Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh, officials said.

Swami Govinddev Giri, the treasurer of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, said on Sunday that it was wrong to describe a political fight as “vote jihad”, asserting that the Hindu society must counter it.

Over 26,000 young aspirants participated in a recruitment rally conducted by the army after a gap of five years in Jammu and Kashmir’s border district of Poonch, officials said on Sunday.

Seven people, including three police personnel were injured following a dispute between two Hindu groups here -- the Himalayan Brahmo Samaj and the Ramakrishna Mission Ashram -- in the heart of the state capital, police said on Sunday.

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday criticised the ruling BJP for its policies and claimed Maharashtra has been deprived of jobs due to the shifting of some big projects to Gujarat.

The BJP's Purvanchali leader and two-time former MLA from Kirari Anil Jha joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the presence of party supremo Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday.