Shillong: As the Meghalaya polls threw a hung verdict, the BJP today said it is ready to provide all support to form a non-Congress government in the hill state but the initiative has to be taken by the regional outfit National People's Party (NPP), which bagged the second-highest 19 seats.

Assam minister

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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today has taken Karti Chidambaram, the son of senior Congress leader and former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram, in Mumbai for further questioning in the INX Media case.

Karti was remanded to five days of CBI custody by a Delhi court on Thursday, af

New Delhi: Dismissing allegations of corruption in the contract for 36 Rafale jets, defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman today asserted there can be no comparison between the scam-hit Bofors gun deal and the procurement of the fighter aircraft.

"Do not even compare it (Rafale deal) with Bofors.There is no scam

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso:  A jihadist group allied to al-Qaeda on Saturday claimed responsibility for a deadly co-ordinated assault on the French embassy in Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadoudou, and the country's military HQ, condemned by the prime minister as a "cowardly" terrorist attack.

Washington: A man shot himself to death as he stood near the fence along the north side of the White House, the Secret Service said.

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were in Florida at the time.

The man was identified by the Secret Service and the city's Metropolitan Police Departm

Shillong: Senior Congress leaders Ahmed Patel and Kamal Nath on Saturday met Governor Ganga Prasad requesting him to invite the Congress to form the new government in Meghalaya.

"We have already met the governor and handed him a letter to request him to invite the Congress being the single largest party,"

Moscow: The Kremlin insisted US sanctions against Russia were "illegal" Saturday, a day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to extend measures put in place during the Ukraine crisis.

"We have never been the initiator of these sanctions, we consider them illegal and harmful not jus