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Andhra Pradesh Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development Botsa Satyanarayana on Thursday hinted at the abolition of Legislative Council after its chairman MA Sharif referred the three-capital Bill to the Select Committee on Discretionary Powers.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has written to Foreign Minister S Jaishankar after reports emerged of Indian nurses in Saudi Arabia suspected to be affected by a deadly strain of the Coronavirus.

Barring a few incidents, polling for 120 municipalities and nine corporations in Telangana went off peacefully on Wednesday with 70.26 per cent voter turnout, officials said.

The Kerala High Court on Wednesday stayed the airing of a TV show based on serial murders that took place in Kozhikode between 2002 and 2016.

Rs 4.5 crore cash, largely deposits in savings bank accounts, have been withdrawn in panic from the Kayalpattinam branch of the Central Bank of India in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin district since Saturday.

Man must give way to elephants, the Supreme Court said today while hearing cases relating to resorts built illegally inside wildlife corridors in Tamil Nadu's Nilgiri Hills

Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation is a subsidiary of the Indian Railways that handles the catering, tourism and online ticketing operations.

The Cochin International Airport (CIAL) from Wednesday started screening all incoming passengers from China and Hong Kong, following the outbreak of a Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), said a CIAL official.

Stoking a fresh controversy, Karnataka's ruling BJP legislator MP Renukacharya on Tuesday accused Muslims of storing lethal weapons, including swords, knives and soda bottles, in mosques across the state.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday said his government will take all steps to ensure that the mortal remains of eight tourists from the state who died at a resort in Nepal are brought back at the earliest.

After a peaceful Mandalam-Makaravilakku pilgrimage season of over two-months, the portals of the Lord Ayyappa Temple were closed after performing customary rituals and pujas on Tuesday.

Superstar Rajinikanth today said he would not apologise for his comments on social reformer EV Ramasamy "Periyar", over which a police complaint has been filed by a political group. Accused of "defaming" Periyar in the complaint, Rajinikanth said his comments were based on news reports he had read.

Telugu Desam Party leader Jayadev Galla, detained by police in Andhra Pradesh's Amaravati on Monday, during a rally to oppose the government's three-capital proposal, was today charged with non-bailable cases and jailed till January 31

The Andhra Pradesh assembly passed a controversial legislation aimed at establishing three capitals in the state amid protests by opposition leaders and farmers on Monday night. Proposed amendments to the bill by the opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) were rejected by the house on a day that saw as many as 17 of its members getting suspended for "unruly behaviour".

An alert was sounded at the Mangaluru International Airport on Monday morning, after security personnel found a live explosive on its premises. Central Industrial Security Force officials said they have zeroed in on a suspect, who was seen leaving the airport in an auto rickshaw.