Author: PTI

A group of transgenders, who were on their way to offer prayers at Sabarimala temple, were stopped here, around 60 km from the shrine, and sent back by police Sunday.

Makkal Needhi Maiam chief Kamal Haasan said Sunday his party has started preparing for the general election but declined to speak on possibilities of forming an alliance with other parties.

Australia had scored 326 runs in their first innings, and India replied with 283 runs, thanks to Kohli’s 25th Test 100, thus conceding a lead of 43 runs. India lead the four-match series 1-0 after winning the first Test in Adelaide by 31 runs. 

At least four people were killed and three injured on Sunday in an explosion at a distillery belonging to former BJP minister Murugesh Nirani in Karnataka’s Bagalkot district, police said.

The death toll in the food-poisoning incident at a temple in Karnataka’s Chamarajanagar district rose to 13 with two more deaths on Sunday, officials said.

BJP general secretary Ram Madhav Sunday said that the judiciary was passing through a tumultuous phase and flayed “teflon-coated” liberals who he alleged pose a challenge to the country.

“A woman director of three companies has been arrested and remanded to judicial custody for alleged receipt and issuance of fake GST invoices without any actual transaction and availing Rs 43 crore Input Tax Credit,” a senior official said today.

In a dramatic assertion, DMK president M K Stalin Sunday vowed to make Congress chief Rahul Gandhi the country’s next prime minister and lauded him for having the ability to defeat the Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre.

Andrew Symonds says India spinner Harbhajan Singh broke down crying while making peace after the infamous ‘monkeygate’ episode had sent the former Australian all-rounder into a downward spiral.