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BJP President Jagat Prakash Nadda on Saturday expressed confidence about NDA getting a two-thirds majority in Bihar assembly polls and said even if the BJP gets more seats, "Nitish Kumar will still be our leader".

In a peculiar remark, Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Saturday said that even if God himself became the Chief Minister he would not be able to provide government jobs to everyone.

The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has handed over the Mangaluru airport to the Adani group on lease for a period of 50 years, according to an official statement.

The Delhi government has directed all wholesale liquor vends in the city to ensure mandatory use of Aarogya Setu app by their staff, touch-free sanitiser dispenser and other protective measures against the novel coronavirus.

Even as the controversy over an Assam Congress MLA's proposal for a museum for people in Char-Charporis (island) areas in the state refuses to ebb, Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma today said that once voted back to power, the MLA Sherman Ali Ahmed, who gave the proposal, will be put behind bars.

Senior Rajasthan Congress leader Sachin Pilot on Saturday said Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan played tricks to get back to power after dislodging the Kamal Nath dispensation in March.

Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Saturday said cabinet expansion would take place soon after the November 3 assembly bypoll and that the BJP candidate in RR Nagar, Munirathna, would be made a minister "soon after he wins".

Online functioning of courts, necessitated due to the coronavirus pandemic, created an unintended inequality as some people did not have access to digital technology, Chief Justice of India SA Bobde said on Saturday.

Bihar JD(U) working President Ashok Choudhary said a section of voters might have a sense of fatigue following the nearly 15-year rule of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, but people will still opt for his experience and "unblemished" track-record over the opposition alliance's chief ministerial candidate Tejashwi Yadav.

Over 19 lakh voters will decide the fate of 1,287 candidates in the second phase of the municipal corporation elections in Rajasthan's three cities on Sunday.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya today said the party will fight the coming assembly polls in West Bengal with Dilip Ghosh as its president and refuted media reports of his removal.

A high speed journey on the Bengaluru-Mysuru rail route was so smooth after intensive track maintenance work that it passed a test where not a drop of water spilled out of a glass kept on the table of a coach, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said.

UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today cited an Allahabad High Court order - that said religious conversion for the purpose of marriage is "not acceptable" - to declare that his government would "curb love jihad" and warned against "playing with our sisters' respect"

BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya Saturday said the party will fight the coming assembly polls in West Bengal with Dilip Ghosh as its president and refuted media reports of his removal.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has urged the Centre to increase to 1,500 metric tonnes the onion stock holding limit for wholesale traders in the state, who purchase the key kitchen staple directly from farmers.