Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, and Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday paid floral tributes to Sree Narayana Guru on his Mahasamadhi Day in this hill district on Sunday.

Draped in a traditional Assamese 'gamosa', Zubeen Garg's mortal remains arrived in a glass casket at the Sarusajai stadium in Guwahati on Sunday afternoon.

The Election Commission has asked its state election officers to be ready for the SIR by September 30, in an indication that the poll authority could launch the voter list cleanup exercise as early as October-November.

The BJP on Sunday alleged that abuses were again hurled at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's late mother, this time by some RJD workers during Leader of Opposition Tejashwi Yadav's 'Bihar Adhikar Yatra'.

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has attacked the BJP government commenting that an emergency has struck India's foreign policy under it and that it has failed to protect the country from arbitrary tariffs and visa fees.

A fire broke out on an 'Army special' goods train at Ujjain station in Madhya Pradesh on Sunday morning, though there was no major damage to property nor was anyone hurt, an official said.

It is that time of a year again, when this palace city gets decked up for annual Dasara celebrations, playing host to a plethora of religious and cultural events, to keep up the tradition of Navaratri festival that began in 1610.

In a significant legal development, a court in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, has reportedly directed that a complaint case be filed against Smita Prakash, the editor of the news agency ANI, for allegedly publishing false reports that were incorrectly attributed to the Election Commission (EC).