Rain stopped play in the Indian Premier League match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium here on Saturday.

In what can only be described as a landslide victory, Mr Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy and his mother Ms Vijayamma have posted the highest winning margins in the prestigious by-elections in Kadapa Lok Sabha and Pulivendula Assembly constituencies respectively.

A day after his landslide victory in Kadapa by-elections in Andhra Pradesh, YSR Congress Party chief Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy on Saturday challenged the Congress to call for a snap poll and contest with photos of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.

Royal Challengers Bangalore stand-in captain Virat Kohli won the toss and elected to field against Kolkata Knight Riders in their Indian Premier League match at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium here on Saturday.

Following its massive victory in the Tamil Nadu Assembly election, the AIADMK is likely to call a meeting of all its newly elected 148 legislators here on Sunday, said party leaders.

Whether the ruling LDF wins or loses, the Chief Minister, Mr V.S. Achuthanandan, will go down in Kerala’s electoral history as a wily politician who set the agenda for campaign 2011.

AIADMK has no intention of sharing power with allies and would go after the DMK's first family on the issue of corruption, a senior party leader said on Friday.

Gautam Gambhir has been named captain of the Indian Twenty20 and ODI team that will be touring the West Indies in June while Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Sachin Tendulkar and Zaheer Khan have been rested.

Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi on Friday resigned from the post after his DMK-led alliance was routed in the assembly polls.

Karnataka's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday bagged all the three Assembly bypolls held April 9, wresting two from the Congress and one from the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S).