Ruling BJP on Sunday suffered a humiliating defeat in Bellary, the stronghold of Reddy brothers, when their protege and former minister B. Sreeramulu won the by-election in the Rural Assembly constituency by a huge margin of 46,000 votes.

Shock and disbelief gripped the Hindi film world as the news spread about the death of Dev Anand with Bollywood stars saying an era has come to an end with the passing away of the "eveready battery".

Bollywood romantic hero and fashion icon Dev Anand has died aged 88, prompting a flood of tributes Sunday from across India's Hindi-language cinema industry.

Three former Karnataka chief ministers, including present external affairs minister S.M. Krishna, are now caught in the illegal mining row rocking the state as a court on Saturday ordered a probe into their role during their rule.

After arresting many DMK leaders and former ministers on charges of illegally appropriating prime property, Tamil Nadu police are now zeroing in on party president M. Karunanidhi's son M.K. Stalin and grandson Udayanidhi Stalin.

Intelligence inputs with the police have revealed that Chennai has now come on the “terror-radar” and the Sunday crackdown by the Central and state intelligence units against a cell of the Indian Muja

Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy will leave for Delhi on Thursday to discuss the Mullaperiyar dam issue with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

DMK chief M. Karunanidhi’s daughter and Rajya Sabha member Kanimozhi, who has been granted bail in the 2G spectrum case, will not reach Chennai till December 3 as she has to attend a court hearing in New Delhi over the multi-crore scam, the party said on Tuesday.

Recently, a bunch of Americans from a top software firm visited the Technopark campus here.

Setting aside rivalries, ruling Congress-led UDF and opposition LDF in Kerala stepped up the demand for a new dam at Mullaperiyar as water flow into the reservoir here almost touched the maximum permi