Chhatarpur (MP): Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Saturday demanded the resignation of Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw in view of the Odisha train accident and cited the example of former Railway Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri.

Amritsar: A 20-year-old youth was held on Saturday for making a hoax call saying four bombs were planted around the Golden Temple here.

Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot threw a microphone on the floor, apparently enraged after the public address system malfunctioned during a public event in Barmer. A purported video of the incident surfaced on social media.

New Delhi: In a speech delivered at India Today's Conclave South 2023, senior Congress leader and General Secretary in-charge, KC Venugopal, shed light on the new direction of the Congress party following the Bharat Jodo Yatra. Venugopal emphasized that the party's leadership today operates in a consultative manner, with inputs provided by Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, while the final decision-making authority rests with Mallikarjun Kharge.

Kolkata: The death toll in Friday's triple train accident at Bahanaga Bazar in Odisha's Balasor rose to 288 even as work to remove mangled coaches and repair tracks at the site started in full swing, a railway official said.

New Delhi, Jun 3: The Delhi High Court on Saturday sought a report from the LNJP hospital on the health condition of AAP leader Manish Sisodia's ailing wife as it reserved its order on his interim bail plea for six weeks in a money laundering case arising from the alleged excise policy scam.

Balasore: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday promised stringent action against any found guilty for the triple train accident which occurred here last night.

Meerut (UP): Justice (retired) Sudhir Agarwal, who was part of an Allahabad High Court bench which delivered a key judgment in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit in 2010, said he was under "pressure" not to give the ruling and added that had they not done so, there would not have been any verdict in the matter for the next 200 years.