While the ruling BJP is thinking of not giving tickets to 70-80 of its sitting MLAs for the forthcoming Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, the opposition Congress is almost ready to renominate 42 out of its 57 legislators.

At least eight persons were killed in two separate road mishaps in West Bengal's Hooghly district, police said Saturday.

At least three persons were injured, two of them seriously, when the fuel tank of an auto-rickshaw exploded while CNG was being filled in it at suburban Malad on Saturday, an official said.

A massive protest by devotees of Lord Ayyappa broke out near the Sabarimala Sannidhanam Saturday following rumours that a woman from Tamil Nadu below 50 years of age climbed the hills to offer prayers to the presiding deity.

Bhumata Brigade leader Trupti Desai said PM talks about triple-talaq but keeps mum on the discrimination faced by Hindu women. Desai was detained ahead of Modi's visit to Shirdi.

The BJP won the urban local body elections in four districts of militancy-infested south Kashmir Saturday, winning 53 of the 132 wards, where polls were held over four phases earlier this month, election officials said.

A bunch of monkeys stoned a 72-year-old to death in Tikri village of Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh when he went to collect wood for havan. According to police, Dharampal Singh was collecting pieces of dry wood when the monkeys rained bricks, which they got from a nearby dilapidated building, at him from the treetop.

Punjab minister and local MLA Navjot Singh Sidhu said the mowing down of 61 Dussehra revellers by a train here was an accident and that nobody had done it intentionally.