Srinagar: Former IAS officer Shah Faesal Sunday launched his political outfit Jammu and Kashmir Peoples' Movement (JKPM) here, promising a youth-oriented politics and to become a voice to help bridge the gap between the state and the Centre and India and Pakistan.

 The Congress on Sunday said it won't contest seven seats in Uttar Pradesh in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections and leave them for the Mayawati-Akhilesh Yadav alliance. These include Mainpuri, from where Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav is contesting, Kannauj, where his daughter-in-law Dimple Yadav is expected to run, and seats on which Rashtriya Lok Dal's Ajit Singh and Jayant Chaudhary will fight and any seat that that Mayawati chooses to contest, Congress leader Raj Babbar announced.

Senior Congress leader Digambar Kamat left for New Delhi on Sunday, amid speculation that he may join the ruling BJP, though the former chief minister denied any such move.

A carnage in far away New Zealand has left three families grieving in Gujarat as four of their relatives are among those killed in the shootings at two mosques in Christchurch that shook the world.

The name of former Supreme Court judge Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose is said to be in active consideration for appointment as the chief of country's first Lokpal, the anti-corruption ombudsman, officials said Sunday.

A mild 4.0 magnitude earthquake was felt in some parts of Rajasthan in the early hours of Sunday.

Amid Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar's deteriorating health, the BJP on Sunday said it is "already thinking on Goa political transit phase" even as the party asserted that the state government was "stable" and warned people against rumours.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday changed his twitter’s profile name and added ‘Chowkidar’ as prefix to make it ‘Chowkidar Narendra Modi’ meaning ‘Watchman Narendra Modi’.