Jailed YSR Congress president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy and his mother, YSR Congress Legislature Party leader Y.S. Vijayalakshmi, have resigned from their memberships of the Lok Sabha and the Assembly respectively to protest against the Congress’ unilateral decision to go ahead with the creation of Telangana state without addressing the concerns of other regions of the state.

Union agriculture minister and NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday kicked up a controversy, saying that Ishrat Jahan had been falsely implicated, and if someone connected or not connected to her family decided to take revenge, then that person could not be faulted.

Declaring the ongoing indefinite bandh in the hills “illegal and unconstitutional,” West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday served a 72-hour deadline to the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha to withdraw it or face the music.

Gorkha Janmukti Morcha chief Bimal Gurung on Saturday rejected chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s withdrawal-of-bandh demand and asked her to withdraw her ultimatum instead. In a clear attempt to put more pressure on the government, Mr Gurung threatened to impose what he described as “people’s curfew” in the hills if she did not withdraw her 72-hour deadline.

In a giant technological leap that will eventually lead to India having a full-fledged nuclear triad capability, the nuclear reactor on board the INS Arihant indigenous nuclear-powered submarine was activated and “attained criticality” early on Saturday morning, the ministry of defence (MoD) confirmed.

At least nine persons were on Saturday feared killed and few others trapped when a pile of coal collapsed at Basundhara open cast mine of Central public sector unit Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL) at Kulda in Orissa’s Sundergarh district.

The ministry of environment’s committee, headed by Dr Saroj, to look into sand mining in Gautam Budh Nagar has confirmed that “rampant, unscientific and illegal mining” is being carried out along the Yamuna river.

Two days after a prisoner committed suicide in Kannauj and triggered violence in the prison, another jail inmate died in Badaun jail under mysterious circumstances on Saturday.

In an embarrassing development, the so-called “ambitious” Mumbai Trans-Harbour Link (MTHL) project did not receive a single bid, which has once again highlighted the sorry state of mega-infrastructure

Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar announced that an award for adivasi literature would be instituted on the lines of the Annabhau Sathe award for Dalit literature.