Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh on Sunday said that he did not believe the exit polls' prediction that his party would win less than 40 seats in the Uttar Pradesh assembly election.

At least 20 mediapersons and police personnel were injured when they were attacked by unruly lawyers in the city civil court complex premises here on Friday, after which the government ordered a judicial probe into it.

In a remarkable, yet inevitable decision, Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker Nadendla Manohar, late on Friday night, disqualified 16 Congress MLAs from their membership of the House and accepted the resignation of Sobha Nagireddy, the Praja Rajyam rebel MLA.

It looks as if the controversies surrounding Israeli writer Susan Nathan are not going to die out. The Kerala government on Friday submitted before the Kerala high court that she has close connections with some extremists in the state and should be deported.

The Indian merchant vessel MV Prabhu Daya, en route from Goa to Singapore, has emerged the prime suspect in the collision that wrecked a fishing boat 30 km off Arthunkal on the Alappuzha coast early on Thursday.

Just weeks after Italian Navymen gunned down two Indian fishermen, an unidentified ship rammed into a boat, 26.9 km off the Arthungal coast of Alappuzha district at 1am Thursday, killing two fishermen and injuring two more.
Three other fishermen have gone missing since the incident.

Director-general of police Jacob Punnoos has said the special investigation team that probes the sea firing case will not seek extension of police custody of the two arrested marines. This means that the Italians will be taken to prison on Thursday.

Evidently troubled by the dwindling number of camp-followers ahead of the crucial core committee meeting on Saturday, beleaguered former Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa plans to give a torrid time to his successor D.V. Sadananda Gowda by posing many a hurdle in the day-to-day administration.

While the Election Commission is bent on ensuring that the Assembly polls in Goa are not influenced by alcohol, the strict deadline of 11 pm for serving booze at pubs and shacks are driving tourists away.

The four-member expert committee appointed by the Tamil Nadu government to look into the safety aspects of the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant submitted its report to chief minister J. Jayalalithaa on Tuesday.