The Supreme Court on Friday said that the proposed live- streaming of its proceedings will include, besides important matters before constitution bench, socially important issues requiring interpretation of legal provisions.

There is a feeling among the opposition parties that the primary task is to defeat the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and that the issue of prime ministership will be decided after the results based on the performance of each party, top Congress sources said here, asserting that a "strategic understanding" had been reached with the SP and BSP and the Congress on fighting the polls together in Uttar Pradesh.

Congress, TMC cobble together group of parties that will ask for paper ballots for 2019 polls.

Mamata Banerjee has on Wednesday urged Opposition leaders to send a joint delegation to the Election Commission over reports of electronic voting machines being tampered with.

Kamal Haasan is in a spot yet again, years after his Vishwaroopam-1 gave him a tough time. The sequel Vishwaroopam-2 is due to release on August 10, but Haasan faces trouble from a productuon company: it has taken Haasan to court over unpaid dues of Rs 7.75 crore.

Native Goans would be banned from entering casinos from 2019, after the state government appoints a gaming commissioner to regulate the industry, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Friday.

President Ram Nath Kovind will on Sunday visit Chennai, where DMK chief M. Karunanidhi has been hospitalised to enquire about his health.

Maoist guerrillas set on fire a truck in Jharkhand's Khuti district on Friday, burning to death its driver, police said.

The Centre on Friday told the Supreme Court that it has abandoned its plan to set up a Social Media Communication Hub (SMCH) to track and monitor these platforms to identify "buzz creators".