Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Sunday said the Bharat Jodo Yatra has ensured that the Congress is now setting the political narrative in the country and the BJP has been made to play on a pitch prepared by his party.

Remarks by Maharashtra Governor B S Koshyari on Shivaji Maharaj and the simmering border row with Karnataka are expected to dominate the winter session of state legislature beginning in Nagpur from Monday.

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has slammed Rahul Gandhi over his 'China preparing for war and Indian government sleeping' remark, saying the Congress leader's "love for China" has gone "far beyond limits".

Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Sunday said that on the one hand Prime Minister Narendra Modi mediates in the Russia-Ukraine war, while on the other he turns a blind eye to the simmering Maharashtra-Karnataka border dispute, which is "not a sign of a good politician".

Over 75 per cent of the government colleges in Himachal Pradesh are functioning without a regular principal, according to the general secretary of the state college teachers' association.

Villagers, who have been sitting on a dharna in front of a distillery and ethanol plant in Ferozepur's Mansurwal for nearly five months demanding its closure, refused to relent despite minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal reaching out to them on Saturday.

The Nitish Kumar government in Bihar has drawn flak, from adversaries as well as allies, over its refusal to pay compensation to family members of those who have died in the Saran hooch tragedy.

An Indian-American entrepreneur and her dog perished in a fire which broke out at her Dix Hills cottage home in Long Island, New York on December 14, officials said.