BJP's West Bengal unit Vice President Jayprakash Majumdar was on Saturday arrested for allegedly taking money from School Service Commission candidates on the pretext of getting them jobs, police said. ....

Former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Saturday failed to turn up for a crucial political affairs committee (PAC) meeting of the Congress party here, and senior Congress leaders were hard put to explain his absence. ....

Four children of a family were burnt to death and their parents injured when a house caught fire here on Saturday morning, police said. ....

The army on Friday said it has busted a terror hideout in Rajouri district of Jammu region and recovered arms and ammunition. ....

Two Trinamool Congress workers were killed and three others injured when unknown assailants opened fire inside the West Bengal ruling party's office in West Midnapore district on Wednesday, police said. ....

Nearly 10 crore voters will exercise their franchise in a two-phased election to 10 municipal corporations, 26 Zilla Parishads and 283 Panchayat Samitis across the state, Maharashtra State Election CommissIoner (SEC) Jageshwar S. Saharia announced here on Wednesday. ....

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat was briefly admitted to a government hospital here on Tuesday after he complained of uneasiness and neck pain, officials said. ....

A fire broke out in a four-star hotel here on Tuesday morning. No casualties were reported, police said. ....

After long opposition to the Centre's debt restructuring scheme for discoms, Tamil Nadu on Monday joined the Ujwal Discom Assurance Yojna (Uday) scheme under which it stands to benefit by Rs 11,000 crore through savings in interest cost and on power distribution and transmission losses, an official statement here said. ....

After days of snow and rain in Himachal Pradesh, it was a sunny Monday with the minimum temperature recorded at minus 0.8 degrees Celsius in Shimla. ....