
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday directed banks to provide adequate loans to farmers for the Rabi season, and also asked banks not to recover till March 2016 the loans taken by farmers for the Kharif crop....

As the opposition Left Democratic Front maintained an impressive lead in local body elections in Kerala, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Saturday said it "in no way reflects a wave in favour of the Left...

Former external affairs minister Salman Khurshid on Saturday attacked the 'March for India' led by veteran Bollywood actor Anupam Kher, saying "...they should have marched to Dadri instead of the Rashtrapati Bhavan"....

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday accused the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) of destroying liberal and secular India. ...
Elaborate security arrangements have been made for Sunday at 39 centres across Bihar for counting of votes polled in the five-phased assembly elections, officials said on Saturday....
Former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Saturday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his silence over the ongoing controversy on intolerance and said it shows his "clear" support in these matters. ...
India appears to be "at war with itself", a leading Pakistani daily observed on Saturday, adding that the politics of fear and hate appears to be on the march on both sides of the border....
The body of Bismarque Dias - who had been protesting against a string of controversial, land intensive projects across Goa - was fished out from Mandovi river near St. Estevam island on Saturday, making opposition and civil society activists demand a probe into the mysterious death....
The exit polls on the Bihar election may be sharply divided over the question of the next party to take charge in the state, the BJP-led NDA or the Nitish Kumar-led Grand Alliance, but the former has already started preparing for its victory celebrations at its 11 Ashoka Road headquarters here....
The Bihar poll outcome and heightened chances of a US rate hike are expected to flare up volatility in rupee value in the week starting November 8, experts said on Saturday....