The UN General Assembly will appoint Antonio Guterres as next Secretary-General on Thursday to replace the retiring Ban Ki-moon on January 1 next year. ...
A Bharatiya Janata Party worker was hacked to death on Wednesday in Kerala's Kannur district, the state police said....

Ending suspense and speculations over Tamil Nadu's governance, the portfolios held by Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa, who is currently in hospital, have been allocated to state Finance Minister O.Panneerselvam, a Raj Bhavan statement said on Tuesday....
Baloch writer Naela Qadri Baloch, a long-time campaigner for Balochistan's independence from Pakistan, arrived here on Tuesday with a view to set up a Baloch government-in-exile. ...
Police on Tuesday arrested two men for spreading rumours about Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa's health on social media....

The portfolios held by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa, who is currently in hospital, have been allocated to state Finance Minister O.Panneerselvam, a Raj Bhavan statement on Tuesday....
The Congress on Tuesday demanded a Vigilance probe into the role of Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan after a number of kin of senior CPI-M leaders got jobs in public sector organisations and as government leaders, triggering allegations of nepotism....
On Dussehra day, Maharashtra Minister Pankaja Munde and her Lok Sabha member-sister Pritam Munde on Tuesday put up a massive show of strength, virtually cementing their claim to the socio-political legacy of their father, the late Union Minister Gopinath Munde and leader of the marginal Vanzari community....
The largest crowd gathered at the Thunachan Paramabu near Thrissur, considered the home of the Malayalam litterateur Thunchathu Ezhuthachan. Jnanpith award winner M.T. Vasudevan Nair was the teacher here, initiating children to their first letters....

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Tuesday backed cow vigilantes and asked the government not to equate them with anti-social elements, contradicting Prime Minister Narendra Modi's stand on the Hindu bovine activists....