The disputes over seat adjustments between the Left Front and the Congress persisted on Saturday, with the latter announcing that it will contest in all the 32 assembly seats where it had lawmakers now....
The Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) supported industrialist Vijay Mallya in becoming a Rajya Sabha lawmaker twice since he is from Karnataka, former prime minister and party supremo H.D. Deve Gowda said on Saturday. ...
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday continued grilling the now defunct Kingfisher Airlines' former CFO A. Raghunathan in the ongoing probe into a money-laundering case and defaulting loans of around Rs.900 crore from the state-run IDBI bank...
The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh on Saturday slammed Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad for drawing a parallel between the RSS and terror outfit Islamic State (IS), saying it showed the "ideological bankruptcy of Congress". ...

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj lauded Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Saturday for conveying the message of "Indian spirituality and heritage" to the world. ...

The Pakistan cricket team finally set foot on Indian soil on Saturday evening amidst tight security to take part in the World Twenty20. ...

Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Saturday sought to compare the RSS with the Islamic State (IS) while saying he equally opposes both organisations but drew an angry protest from the BJP which demanded an apology. ...

On the day Finance Minister Arun Jaitley claimed the BJP had won the ideological war in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) battle because student leader, Kanhaiya Kumar, had waved the national flag and said "Jai Hind", a group of saffron activists vandalised a church in Raipur in Chhattisgarh....
Showing that the time of artificial intelligence (AI) is right here, Google-run AI programme "AlphaGo" on Saturday defeated 18-time world champion Lee Se-dol for the third consecutive time in Go -- a complex Chinese board game that is considered the "quintessential unsolved problem" for machine intelligence. ...

Two of India's financial sector watchdogs on Saturday took a grim view of the stress in the banking sector on account of loan defaults, with the one dealing with equity markets announcing on Saturday a ban on wilful perpetrators from raising public money....