Taking a swipe at Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi, the Congress on Sunday said he will get himself sworn-in this evening as "the leader of the Narendra Destructive Alliance (NDA)" even though he lacks all legitimacy.

Amaravati: Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi is expected to attend the swearing-in ceremony of N Chandrababu Naidu as the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh on June 12, an official said on Saturday.

New Delhi: Janata Dal (United) MP Sanjay Jha, a confidant of party president and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, on Saturday junked his party spokesperson K C Tyagi's claim that the opposition INDIA bloc had proposed to make Kumar its prime ministerial choice after the Lok Sabha poll result.

Kolkata: Actor-turned-Trinamool Congress MLA Soham Chakraborty created a controversy by assaulting a restaurant owner who allegedly abused party MP Abhishek Banerjee during the shooting of a film there.

New Delhi: Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi is set to take oath on Sunday for a third straight term as the head of a coalition government after two full tenures in which the BJP enjoyed a majority on its own.

Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala government on Saturday ordered a probe into a ragging complaint filed by a student of a state-run school in Wayanad district.

New Delhi: Congress leaders are yet to receive invitations for Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony on June 9, the party said on Saturday and also claimed that Modi had lost political and moral authority as he "did not get" the people's mandate in the Lok Sabha polls.

Bhubaneswar: In his first comments on his aide V K Pandian after the shocking defeat in the elections, BJD supremo and former Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday said criticism of Pandian for the party's debacle was "unfortunate" and asserted that he did an "excellent job".