PTI

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has claimed that he has helped 1398 farmers from Uttar Pradesh by paying off their loans. In a late night blog post on Monday,

Opposition Congress and NCP Tuesday refused to hold any discussion in the Maharashtra Legislative Council over the prevailing drought conditions in the state, but asked the government to immediately provide compensation to the affected farmers.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday asked people to vote “intelligently” in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls, ensuring that “not even a single Congress candidate” is elected.

Prime Minister Imran Khan Tuesday left for Kuala Lumpur on a two-day official visit to Malaysia where he is likely to seek monetary assistance to minimise the cash-strapped Pakistan’s dependence on an IMF bailout package.

Sri Lankan police did a U-turn on Tuesday and reversed its decision to transfer a top detective investigating alleged crimes by the family and associates of disputed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa following pressure from civil society groups.

The BJP on Tuesday released its manifesto for the Mizoram Assembly election, promising to include Mizo, the official language of the state, in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution.

Senior leaders and activists of the Opposition Congress-led UDF, who planned to visit the Sabarimala shrine and staged protests at base camp Pamba and Nilackal Tuesday, have been booked for defying prohibitory orders.

Bengal batsmen cut a sorry figure on home turf to be bowled out for 147, giving Kerala an upper hand in their Ranji Trophy Elite Group B match. Young Basil Thampi returned with career-best first-class figures of 4 for 57

Maharashtra Education Minister Vinod Tawde said in the Legislative Council said the government is mulling making Marathi compulsory from Class I to X in all schools. He said states like West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Gujarat had made their local languages compulsory in schools.

A sessions court framed charges against Patidar leader Hardik Patel and his two aides in a sedition case filed against them in connection with the violence that had broken out during the community’s quota agitation in August 2015