Telangana: The other reasons for his refusal to take oath in the presence of an AIMIM pro-tem Speaker are that the party never sings Vande Mataram and refuses to chant Bharat Mata ki Jai.

Pudukottai (TN): Ten Sabarimala pilgrims from Telangana died in a road accident near Thirumayam town in Pudukottai district of central Tamil Nadu Sunday after their vehicle collided head-on with a lorry, police said.

New Delhi: The BJP Sunday appointed senior leaders Rajnath Singh and Arun Jaitley as the head of 20-member 'sankalp patra' (manifesto) committee and publicity wing respectively for the Lok Sabha polls as its president Amit Shah formed 17 groups in preparation for the elections.

Hyderabad: The Congress Sunday suspended former Union minister Sarve Satyanarayana from the party for allegedly making objectionable remarks against Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee chief Uttam Kumar Reddy and its state in charge R C Khuntia.

Preparations began at the Ramlila Maidan on Sunday for cooking 5,000 kg of "samrasta khichdi" for the "Bhim Mahasangam", a gathering of people from the backward classes organised by the Delhi BJP.

 In a U-turn, West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh Sunday said his remark on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's prime ministerial prospects was made in jest, even as the opposition claimed that the statement reflected a "tacit understanding" between the TMC and the saffron party.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday alleged that Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman "lied" in Parliament that government orders worth Rs one lakh crore were provided to HAL, while demanding that she should either place the documents in support of her statement in the House or resign.

A Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested the personal secretaries of state ministers Archana Tripathi, Sandeep Singh and Om Prakash Rajbhar on charges of corruption and bribery.