The BJP on Tuesday won four seats and the Congress two as the ruling NDA bettered the opposition in by-elections for 12 seats held across eight states three days ago. Uttar Pradesh's ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) was the worst sufferer.
Parkash Singh Badal described the result of the Khadoor Sahib by-election as a "massive victory of positive agenda of peace, communal harmony
Devendra, who says his heroes are Hitler and Shah Rukh Khan, lured some of his friends into the kidnap drama, saying the woman's father was a rich man and would cough up huge sums of ransom money.
The BJP and the Congress on Monday attacked each other on the Jawaharlal Nehru University incidents even as a few journalists were beaten up by certain lawyers in Patiala House court complex here.
Mysuru in Karnataka has topped the list of the cleanest cities in India for the second year in a row.
The foray of a resident of a village in Arunachal Pradesh into tea plantation inspired scores of people in the area to follow her example with many of them giving up growing opium.