Operations at branches of public sector banks across the country were impacted Wednesday due to a strike by unions against the proposed merger of Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank with Bank of Baroda (BoB).

With months to go for the 2019 general elections, yoga teacher Ramdev, once a staunch supporter of the ruling BJP, has delivered what appears to be a huge rebuff to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It would be difficult to say who will be the next prime minister, he told news agency ANI on Tuesday.

A 24-year-old pregnant woman from this district contracted HIV after receiving blood donated by an infected man, prompting the Tamil Nadu government to review the stocks in all blood banks of the state to ensure they were free of the deadly virus.