Anindita Sanyal

"The BJP's stance is very clear. All the parties in the alliance should decide their own candidate," said the party's Maharashtra unit chief Ashish Shelar.

The festive season in Delhi appears to be headed for a contentious closure with a clash between the ruling Aam Aadmi Party and the opposition BJP over the ghats for bathing during the coming Chhath puja.

Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan has taken on his party's ally and state Home Minister Anitha, accusing her of incompetence. He warned that unless there is improvement, he would be forced to "take over the home department as well".

The Allahabad High Court had declared the 2004 Uttar Pradesh madrassa law as "unconstitutional" and violative of secularism. Thousands of madrassa students across Uttar Pradesh may get to know today which way their education will go as the Supreme Court decides if the madrassa law, scrapped by the Allahabad High Court, should stay or not.

Sources close to Chief Justice Khanna revealed that whenever he visits Amritsar, he visits Katra Sher Singh.

The white building close to the Patna airport was registered as the office of the Lok Janshakti Party by Mr Paras's brother and Chirag Paswan's father, late Ramvilas Paswan, as the party office. Unofficially it was also the home of Mr Paras, who lived there with his family.

Jharkhand Assembly Election: For this phase In Jharkhand, the ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha has fielded 23 candidates, its allies Congress 17 and Lalu Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal five. Forty-three of Jharkhand's 81 assembly seats will go to polls in the first phase of election today. A handful of by-elections are also scheduled, the most prominent of which is Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's test in Kerala's Wayanad.

Mohammad Asif had demanded a bribe of ₹ 1 lakh from Aarish from the Madrasa Manjuriya Akhtarul Uloom. The victim is a resident of Thana Bahedi of Bareilly.

Chaos overtook the mayoral election in Delhi today as the Congress said it would boycott the poll, demanding that the new Mayor serve a full term.

No matter which side wins, ruling alliance Mahayuthi or the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi, that decision is unlikely to be simple or straightforward - so much so that many are expecting a political reconfiguration post-result