The Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance is likely to gain majority with 187 to 197 seats and around 35 per cent vote share in the forthcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, according to a recent survey. ....

It was great lucky escape for the two petroleum products carriers that collided against each other owing to grave human error and lack of communication on the part of their crews, said an inquiry officer. ....

The Delhi Police arrested nine persons for gambling in a snooker parlour here on Monday. ....

Two multi-storey residential complexes in this Himachal Pradesh town collapsed on Monday because of digging activity in the vicinity, officials said. ....

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejaswi Yadav on Monday invited director Sanjay Leela Bhansali to Bihar to shoot his film "Padmavati" without any fear. ....

Filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali's production team has assured Shree Rajput Karni Sena that no intimate and/or romantic scene between Alauddin Khilji and Padmavati would be shown in his movie "Padmavati", the Karni Sena claimed here on Monday. ....

Infosys software engineer K. Rasila Raju paid with her life for objecting to a security guard staring at her while she worked in office on Sunday evening, police said in Pune on Monday. ....

Differently abled swimmer E.D. Baburaj on Monday swam 25 km non-stop at the Punnamada lake here, the venue of the popular Nehru snake boat race. ....

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Monday said a state annual plan of Rs 5,700 crore has been proposed for the next fiscal with an increase of Rs 500 crore over the present fiscal. ....

Acting on the Election Commission's directive, authorities here have filed an FIR against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for asking voters to take money from other parties but vote for his AAP, an official said on Monday. ....