New Delhi: As the polling has ended in Haryana’s 90 Assembly constituencies today, the Matrize Exit Poll has projected a challenging outcome for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), predicting it to win between 18-24 seats. The Congress is expected to make a comeback with 55-62 seats, while the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) is likely to be limited to 3-6 seats. The Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) is likely to secure around 3 seats, and other parties are expected to win between 2-5 seats.

Chennai: A Madurai-bound Air India flight which departed from here on Saturday returned to the city due to a technical issue, authorities said.

A Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) district functionary, Vetri Vendhan (43), was arrested by the Tiruvallur town police for allegedly poisoning and killing 16 stray dogs after they attacked his pigeons and hens.

Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati, the mahant of Dasna Devi Temple and a controversial Hindu seer, has been detained by the police in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, following a First Information Report (FIR) filed against him for allegedly delivering a blasphemous speech against Prophet Muhammad. The FIR was registered on Thursday, based on a complaint by a police officer from the Sihani Gate police station.

A special court in Pune has summoned Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to appear before it on October 23 in a criminal defamation case filed by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar’s grandnephew, Satyaki Savarkar.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday alleged that the Congress is being run by a "gang of urban Naxals", and asked people to unite to defeat the "dangerous agenda" of that party.

AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday submitted a representation to Hyderabad police commissioner C V Anand demanding that a criminal case be registered against Uttar Pradesh Hindutva leader Yati Narsinghanand for his alleged derogatory remarks against Prophet Muhammed.

Rahul Gandhi, Congress MP and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha slammed the BJP and stated that people of "anti-Constitution ideology" had not invited President Droupadi Murmu for the inauguration of the new Parliament in New Delhi and the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.