Hyderabad: Congress leader and senior lawyer Abhishek Manu Singhvi was on Tuesday elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Telangana in a bypoll.

Pithoragarh: Snow disappeared completely for the first time ever from Uttarkahand's Om Parvat last week, leaving visitors wondering what was wrong.

New Delhi: Dushyant Chautala's Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) and Chandra Shekhar Azad-led Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) on Tuesday announced their alliance for the upcoming Haryana assembly polls.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to accept the unconditional apology published by Indian Medical Association (IMA) chief R V Asokan in a newspaper over his "damaging" comments about the apex court in an interview to news agency PTI, saying the excerpt of the apology filed before it was "illegible" as the font was "minuscule".

Thrissur/Thiruvananthapuram: Union Minister Suresh Gopi's remarks on Tuesday accusing the media of misleading public perception about the film industry regarding the recent allegations of sexual harassment against actors and directors snowballed into a controversy with the state BJP leadership disagreeing with his stand.

Meerut: A 55-year-old woman died, reportedly of a panic attack, on Monday after a police team raided her home in Bijnor district, Uttar Pradesh, acting on a tip-off that beef was being stored at her residence. However, no objectionable material was found during the operation. The raid was conducted under suspicion of violating Uttar Pradesh's anti-cow slaughter laws, which prohibit cow slaughter and the sale or transport of beef.

In a case that has surfaced just days after the rape and murder at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, at a time when calls for increased protection for physicians are intensifying, a male patient attacked a junior female physician. The entire episode was recorded by the hospital's CCTV cameras, and it was reported from the Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences in Tirupati.

Guwahati: Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said that he would take sides, and won't let 'Miya' Muslims "take over" the Assam.