Kolkata: Senior BJP leader and party MP Saumitra Khan on Tuesday sent a divorce notice to his wife Sujata Mondal Khan, a day after she joined the Trinamool Congress.

New Delhi: Kanta Prasad, the owner of the small eatery 'Baba ka Dhaba' that was recently in the limelight on social media, on Monday opened a new restaurant in south Delhi's Malviya Nagar area.

Srinagar/Jammu: The seven-party Gupkar alliance led by Farooq Abdullah was ahead in the seat tally in the maiden District Development Council polls in Jammu and Kashmir by winning or leading in 112 seats out of 280 on Tuesday, followed by the BJP which had won 52 seats, including three in the Kashmir valley for the first time, and was frontrunner in 18.

Srinagar: The BJP on Tuesday won an election for the first time from any seat in Kashmir while facing regional heavyweights like the National Conference and the PDP.

Srinagar: PDP youth president Waheed Para, who is in custody of the National Investigation Agency for alleged links with militants, on Tuesday won the District Development Council (DDC) elections from Pulwama district in Jammu and Kashmir.

Mumbai: Possession of a dead animal's skin will not amount to an offence under the Maharashtra Animal Preservation Act, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has observed while quashing a FIR against a man for possession of skins of dead cows.

In a shocking revelation, an RTI reply has sensationally revealed that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal spent a whopping Rs 6 crore to organise his Laxmi Puja event in November this year. This effectively means that the AAP leader splashed Rs 20 lakh of taxpayers money for every single minute during the 30-minute event. The RTI reply by the Delhi Tourism and Transporation Corporation Limited also said that the Laxmi Puja was the official event of the Delhi government.

Sanjiv Bhatt, the former IPS officer of the Gujarat cadre, has been in prison for the past two years, three months and 17 days for an alleged custodial death in the mid-nineties. He is the only IPS officer to have been convicted so far for custodial death.