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Charanjit Singh Channi, a dalit MLA, has been named as the Congress Legislative Party leader in Punjab - in an indication of a generation shift in the party’s state unit as well as its attempt at social engineering.

Jalandhar police have rescued a West Bengal-based potato trader from kidnappers who were demanding a ransom of Rs 400,000 for his release, and had sent a video showing him being assaulted, to his wife

Indian-origin politician Pravin Gordhan has been appointed as South Africa's new finance minister by President Jacob Zuma, who fired two of his predecessors within a week, amid a raging economic turmoil in Africa's second-largest economy

As the state was sunk in four rounds of recent floods that resulted in catastrophic destruction, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to declare the event as a national calamity

YSR Congress Party president Jaganmohan Reddy has called for total prohibition of alcohol in Andhra Pradesh, a day after five people died after drinking spurious liquor

After videos and images of former union minister V Narayanasamy holding Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's slippers went viral on the internet, he explained that he held them out of courtesy to help Gandhi wade through a flooded street in Puducherry

Eight organisers of the controversial 'beef festival' on Osmania University campus have been detained while BJP MLA T Raja Singh who was opposing the event, was arrested.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has said that he would welcome former cricketer and BJP member Navjot Singh Sidhu if he wanted join the Aam Aadmi Party.

A cyclist from Patiala has bagged the first position in the 500m individual time trial event on the first day of the Punjab State Cycling Championship