The Delhi High Court has directed a man to plant 50 trees as community service while agreeing to close criminal proceedings against him in a power theft case.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will conduct an aerial survey of flood affected areas of Karnataka on Sunday, officials said. The home minister will assess the flood situation in Belagavi district.

New Delhi: Despite the names of veteran leader Mallikarjun Kharge and Mukul Wasnik being thrown up as possible successor to the Congress President's post, when the state party leaders finally sat down to confabulate and propose the names for the post Former president of the Indian National Congress Sonia Gandhi.

Amaravati: At least 98 cows and calves died in a suspected case of food poisoning in a gaushala on the outskirts of Vijayawada city in Andhra Pradesh.

Mumbai: Opposition parties on Saturday accused the BJP-led Maharashtra government of "shamelessly advertising" itself eyeing upcoming assembly polls, after it emerged that grain bags for flood victims in parts of Sangli district carried stickers with images of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and a BJP MLA.

Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa will visit flood-hit areas in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi District on Monday August 12. The CM will take stock of situation by road as the weather conditions in the region does not permit aerial survey for the CM.

The Congress Working Committee (CWC) will meet on Saturday evening, the second time in the day, during which it is likely to take a final call on a new party president, after Rahul Gandhi rejected its unanimous appeal to reconsider his May 25 resignation.

Aviation regulator DGCA on Saturday suspended two SpiceJet pilots for a year as their B737 aircraft made a late touchdown at the Mumbai airport overshooting the runway on July 2, sources said.