New Delhi: The Congress has lost the highest number of its electoral candidates as well as MPs and MLAs to other parties in the past seven years with the BJP emerging the biggest gainer since it came to power at the Centre in 2014, according to a report released on Thursday.

Pune: Activist Anna Hazare on Thursday said he would launch an agitation if the Maharashtra government did not enact a Lokayukta Act and appoint an independent anti-corruption ombudsman.

Chennai: To trace Tamil cultural roots, the state archaeological department would undertake excavations in countries including Indonesia and in states such as Andhra Pradesh after obtaining due permission, Chief Minister M K Stalin announced in the Assembly on Thursday while unveiling finding of a study that pointed to a 3,200 year-old civilisation in Tamil Nadu.

Mumbai: A woman constable and two others have been arrested for the alleged murder of a 54-year-old policeman who died in a hit-and-run incident at Panvel in neighbouring Navi Mumbai last month, an official said on Thursday.

Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij on Thursday said the government is ready for a probe into last month's clash between farmers and police but warned that farm leaders too could face action if they're found to be at fault.

A local Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader was shot at by miscreants near the railway running room under Bagbera police station near here on Thursday, police said.

Trinamool Congress leader and MP Mahua Moitra expressed her anger on Twitter over the internet and SMS services being suspended in Karnal, Haryana. 

 Noted women's rights activist Sonal Shukla died after cardiac arrest in Mumbai on Thursday, a colleague said.