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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi's intervention to stop the reported move to disinvest the state owned Bharat Petroleum Corproation LTD (BPCL).

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader GVL Narasimha Rao said today that if N Chandrababu Naidu is ready to merge his Telugu Desam Party (TDP) with the BJP, he is ready to talk to the party leadership.

A woman in Kerala sat in protest outside her home for five days after she said her husband gave her a "triple talaq" instant divorce in the third such case filed in the state since practice was outlawed in July this year, according to the Kerala Women's Commission.

A court on Saturday rejected the bail application of serial killer Jolly Thomas and her two accomplices, and remanded them to judicial custody till November 2.

In the biggest protest since the employees of the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) called for a strike against the KCR government on October 5, a statewide shutdown was observed by the TSRTC staff today, disrupting transportation across Hyderabad and 32 other districts. More than 50,000 cabs across the state are also off the road as Ola and Uber cab drivers joined the transport strike, demanding regularisation of the ride-hailing market.

Amid the probe into the growing scandal involving proxies taking the medical entrance exams in Tamil Nadu, the Madras High Court on Thursday said that the thumb impressions of 4,250 students who were admitted to various medical courses this year in the state should be handed over to investigators. Experts, however, say the system has many other inbuilt loopholes that kill transparency and facilitate corrupt practices.

Calling Vinayak Damodar Savarkar a "murderer", former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah slammed the BJP on Friday for its plan to bestow Bharat Ratna to him posthumously.

Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai said on Friday some terrorist sleeper cells were active in Bengaluru and Mysuru and their activities have intensified in coastal Karnataka as well as the Bay of Bengal.

In semi-rural Nagamangala taluk in Karnataka, only 120 kilometres from Bengaluru, a new detention centre for foreign nationals found to be living in the country illegally is almost ready to receive its first residents

Searches in multiple premises in firms and trusts founded by spiritual guru ''Kalki'' Bhagwan has led to detection of undisclosed income of more than Rs 500 crore, the Income Tax department said on Friday.

The Kalasa Banduri project on the Mahadayi river in Karnataka has been a tricky subject for years now between the states of Karnataka, Maharashtra and Goa.

The residents of Bengaluru's Mahadevapura today gathered at one of the worst traffic zones in the city to protest against the crumbling infrastructure and poor civic amenities, demanding that their elected representatives either improve the situation or resign.

Telangana's Excise Department has collected Rs 968 crore as application fee for running the liquor shops across the state. The department received 48,000 application for 2,216 liquor licenses this year. Each applicant had to make a non-refundable deposit of Rs 2 lakh, which was double the fee in 2017.

With the impasse between the protesting employees of the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) and the state government showing no signs of ending, Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Thursday stepped in and sought a report on the steps taken by the government to avoid inconvenience to common people.

Ahead of the Assembly bypolls in Karnataka, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has asked the state unit to work under collective leadership and take dominant communities of the state into confidence, senior party leader SR Patil said on Thursday.