Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's camp on Tuesday told the poll panel to allocate it the election symbol 'cycle', a day after party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav made the same claim....
President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday greeted the people and the government of Myanmar on the eve of the country's Independence Day. ...

Patients coming to the government health facilities here in Punjab no longer require to pay a registration fee, the Health Department said on Tuesday....
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's camp on Tuesday met Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi to stake claim on the Samajwadi Party's election symbol 'cycle'. ...
BSP chief Mayawati on Tuesday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi again over demonetisation, saying it continued to cause misery even after the end of the 50-day period. ...

A CPI-Maoist group guerrilla was killed and his wife arrested in a gunfire with the security forces in Jharkhand's East Singhbhum district on Tuesday, police said....
Twenty-five Chinese cities are on red alert due to severe air pollution, officials said on Tuesday....
Light drizzle greeted the residents here on Tuesday morning as the weather office forecast rain and snow in Jammu and Kashmir from evening onwards. ...
Terming the demonetiasation drive as anti-people, Congress' Delhi unit on Monday said that it will stage protest against it across the city on January 7, as part of its party's pan-India programme....
Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker and AIADMK leader M.Thambi Durai on Monday urged newly-appointed party General Secretary V.K. Sasikala to charge of the state government as Chief Minister....