Following the resumed agitation by Jats, the Haryana government on Tuesday set up a five-member committee headed by Chief Secretary D.S. Dhesi "to consider the demands and resolve the problems of those agitating for reservation" in the state. ....

Ten Maoists are believed to have been killed in a heavy exchange of fire when they attacked a police camp in Narayanpur district of Chhattisgarh. ....

Delhi Lt Governor Anil Baijal cleared the AAP government's proposal to build 300 Mohalla Clinics in the premises of government schools, officials said on Tuesday. ....

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday held a joint rally at the Nauchandi grounds here and appealed to the people to bring the alliance to power "to check communal forces". ....

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Tuesday said the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) will ensure that reservation in jobs for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes is scrapped if the BJP is voted to power in Uttar Pradesh. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday condoled the death of Subhas Chandra Bose's close associate and INA veteran 'Colonel' Nizamuddin, who died at the age of 116. ....

The nomination process for the sixth phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls began on Tuesday, an election official said. ....

Two banks in Jharkhand were looted on Tuesday of Rs 51 lakh, police said. ....

Samajwadi Party mentor Mulayam Singh Yadav's younger daughter-in-law Aparna Yadav has courted controversy by reportedly saying she is opposed to caste-based reservation, with the opposition BJP jumping at the opportunity to corner the ruling party. ....

Former Tamil Nadu assembly Speaker P.H. Pandian and his son and former MP Manoj Pandian on Tuesday sought a probe into the circumstances leading to the hospitalization of the late J. Jayalalithaa. ....