Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Kerala vice-president B Gopalakrishnan has stirred controversy with remarks suggesting that the party will relocate people from other states, including Jammu and Kashmir, to constituencies it seeks to win.

Veteran Communist Party of India (CPI) leader Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy died at a private hospital here on Friday, party sources said. He was 83.

Serious allegations of sexual misconduct and exploitation have been levelled against Kerala-based spiritual healer “Yogi Guruji” (real name Basil) following a meditation retreat held earlier this month in Wayanad.

The National Human Rights Commission on Friday said it has issued notices to the Maharashtra government and the state's police chief over reports that a 21-year-old man died after being allegedly beaten up in public by a group of people in a village in Jalgaon district.

The CBI has filed a case against Reliance Communications and its promoter director Anil Ambani, for an alleged bank fraud that caused a loss of over Rs 2,000 crore to State Bank of India, officials said on Saturday.

 A 26-year Muslim man from Madhya Pradesh has offered to donate one of his kidneys to Hindu seer Premanand Maharaj, calling him a symbol of Hindu-Muslim unity.

Nationalist Congress Party (SP) president Sharad Pawar on Friday said Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had called him up to seek support for NDA’s vice-presidential candidate CP Radhakrishnan, but he expressed his inability to accept the request.

An impromptu inspection of the Dakshina Kannada district's Sports Boys and Girls Hostel in Mannagudda by the Karnataka Lokayukta has exposed alarming lapses in food quality, accommodation, and fund utilisation.