PANAJI: The BJP-Congress face off over Narendra Modi's PM candidacy on Wednesday spilled over to the 44th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) being held in Goa.

NEW DELHI: The raging political controversy over Gujarat Police's 'snooping' on a woman allegedly at the instance of chief minister Narendra Modi's trusted aide figured in the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

MUMBAI: High profile Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and more than half a Union Cabinet members were in the city on Tuesday for the launching of the first ever women's bank in the memory of late PM Indira Gandhi, but the crisis-ridden Congress miserably failed to en-cash the land mark event.

NEW DELHI: The CBI has not found any criminality in the allocation of some coal blocks and might recommend closure of inquiry in such cases in the next hearing in the Supreme Court on November 26.

MUMBAI: In the old days, gurukul students donning saffron robes would go around town asking for dakshina for their school. In a complete reversal of roles, a group of 1,200 teachers across the state have been knocking on many doors for alms to help out special students who lack the means to make it to a classroom.

NEW DELHI/ HYDERABAD: In the first-ever meeting of the newly-constituted Congress coordination committee, AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh advised all the state leaders to fall in line and ensure that the state bifurcation process reaches its logical conclusion .

JAIPUR: The BJP's list of 176 candidates for the upcoming assembly polls has only three Muslims. This measly representation — merely one-and-half per cent of the 200 seats — turns on its head the saffron party's strong urgings to the 60-lakh strong community to shun their reservations about the BJP, showing up the party's own dichotomy.

An American news satire website's play of words and comment on the security of women in India, and particularly in Assam, has evoked sharp criticism from netizens. Social media is abuzz with reactions - many believing the satire to be "true news" - after the website published a report headlined, 'The Assam Rape Festival In India Begins This Week' on November 3.

BALASORE (Odisha): India on Friday successfully test-fired its indigenously developed nuclear-capable Agni-I ballistic missile with a strike range of 700km from a test range off Odisha coast as part of a user trial by the Army.

MANALI: The Manali-Rohtang-Leh highway has been blocked for vehicular traffic following heavy snowfall in Kullu and Lahaul-Spiti districts of Himachal Pradesh on Thursday.