Amaravati: At least 98 cows and calves died in a suspected case of food poisoning in a gaushala on the outskirts of Vijayawada city in Andhra Pradesh.

Mumbai: Opposition parties on Saturday accused the BJP-led Maharashtra government of "shamelessly advertising" itself eyeing upcoming assembly polls, after it emerged that grain bags for flood victims in parts of Sangli district carried stickers with images of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and a BJP MLA.

Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa will visit flood-hit areas in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi District on Monday August 12. The CM will take stock of situation by road as the weather conditions in the region does not permit aerial survey for the CM.

The Congress Working Committee (CWC) will meet on Saturday evening, the second time in the day, during which it is likely to take a final call on a new party president, after Rahul Gandhi rejected its unanimous appeal to reconsider his May 25 resignation.

Aviation regulator DGCA on Saturday suspended two SpiceJet pilots for a year as their B737 aircraft made a late touchdown at the Mumbai airport overshooting the runway on July 2, sources said.

A contractor engaged by Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation was assaulted by a mob in Greater Noida over rumours that he was carrying slaughtered bovine, officials said on Saturday.

Fifty-seven people died Saturday when a fuel tanker exploded after an accident at Morogoro, 200 kilometres (120 miles) west of the Tanzanian capital Dar es Salaam, police said.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has courted a controversy by saying that people from Haryana "could now get brides from Kashmir", apparently in reference to the scrapping of the special status for Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 of the Constitution.