On being ignored by the BJP, the 78-year-old said justice was denied to seniors like him. 'I won’t die suffocating at home. I will take to the battlefield and die like a martyr,' he said.

A newborn with scores of ants crawling on the body was recovered from a bush in Pakur district on Thursday morning, police said.

Three persons were arrested for allegedly stabbing a Dalit youth to death and dumping his body in a field in Nawla village here on Thursday, police said.

One person was killed and at least 41 others were injured Thursday when the bus they were travelling in fell into a deep gorge at Polian Beet under Haroli police station in Una district of Himachal Pradesh, the police said.

As many as 37 Air India flights, including some international ones, were affected Thursday after a section of employees of the national carrier's ground handling subsidiary, AIATSL, went on a flash strike against non-payment of Diwali bonus and other issues, an official said.

CBI Director Alok Verma Thursday met Central Vigilance Commissioner K V Chowdary and is understood to have refuted corruption charges levelled against him by his deputy and special director in the probe agency Rakesh Asthana, officials said.

Eleven cows died of electrocution at a 'goshala' (cow shelter) here when they came in contact with a live electric wire, police said Thursday.

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Thursday said state-wise alliances would benefit the party and was the best way to defeat the BJP.