A litmus test awaits the Gandhis in their bastion Amethi, which votes on Monday in the fifth of the seven-phased Uttar Pradesh assembly election....
Five Maoists were arrested from a shopping complex here, police said on Saturday....
Tripura has initiated organic farming in the state and would take lessons from...

Spicer on Friday afternoon, decided to hold an off-camera "gaggle" with reporters inside his office instead of the traditional on-camera briefing in the Press Briefing Room, The Hill magazine reported. ...
White House chief of staff Reince Priebus asked a top FBI official to push back against news stories about contacts between US President Donald Trump's aides and Russians during the presidential campaign, media reports said on Friday....

Officials of the Indian Consulate General in Houston are in touch with the wife of Srinivas Kuchibhotla, an Indian engineer who was killed in a shooting incident in US' Kansas state, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Friday....
A day after a hung House was thrown up following the BMC polls here, the Shiv Sena, which bagged (84+3) of the 227 seats, on Friday approached the Congress party for a post-poll alliance, but the latter evinced no interest....
The 69th birth anniversary of late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa on Friday was a quiet day for her long-time confidante and AIADMK General Secretary V.K. Sasikala, housed in the Central Jail on the city's outskirts....
Deepa Jayakumar, the niece of late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa on Friday announced the formation of her forum MGR Amma Deepa Peravai and her decision to contest from the R.K.Nagar constituency here ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday termed last November's train accident in Kanpur a conspiracy hatched from across the border and urged people not to vote for those "who help conspirators". ...