Patna, Around two dozen RJD supporters had a providential escape on Tuesday morning as they rallied on the rail tracks in Nalanda district of Bihar even as party workers disrupted train services in quite a few other districts as well.

A video clip that went viral on social media showed the RJD supporters holding p

Lucknow, Leaders of farmers organisations, the Samajwadi Party and the Congress were either taken into custody or put under house arrest across Uttar Pradesh to prevent them from holding demonstrations during the Bharat Bandh on Tuesday.

Former minister Arvind Singh Gope of the Samajwadi Party was put under house

New Delhi, Amid the Bharat Bandh, NCP supremo Sharad Pawar on Tuesday attacked the BJP for diverting the attention, and said during his tenure as the Union Cabinet Minister, he had only talked about bringing reforms in the APMC and not about the kind of new laws enacted by the Centre.

Responding to the BJP allegat

New Delhi, The Delhi police on Tuesday said that the situation in Delhi is peaceful and normal life has not been affected by the Bharat Bandh. Senior police officers are patrolling the streets and a constant vigil is being kept at all major points in the capital.

"All the markets are open in Delhi and normal

Hyderabad, Dec 8 (IANS) Movement of vehicles on national and state highways in Telangana came to a standstill on Tuesday as ruling TRS Ministers, lawmakers and leaders of opposition parties held protests on roads during the 'Bharat Bandh' called by farmers.

Apart from TRS Ministers and MPs, the party&

New Delhi, Hundreds of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders and workers rallied at the busy ITO here on Tuesday in the wake of reports that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was detained at his residence, a charge denied by the police.

As AAP activists, including a number of party MLAs, held a dharna at one of Delhi&#

Thiruvananthapuram, Hours after polling began in five southern districts of Kerala for the local bodies, state BJP chief K. Surendran on Tuesday said Speaker of the state assembly and few ministers were involved with the 'smugglers' now arrested in the gold smuggling case.

Surendran said that if in the pas

New Delhi, As the opposition parties in 11 states took to the streets in support of the protesting farmers' call for 'Bharat Bandh', Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Tuesday urged farmers to avoid the "propaganda" being spread. He assured them that "the MSP and mandis will also contin