While addressing a gathering, the Governor said that the idea of Bharat as a mother had been neglected after Independence.

Besieged by sanctions and an increasingly belligerent US, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei is in a secure location, but is not hiding in a bunker, the country’s consul general to India has said.

A debate over “VIP culture” has flared up once again in Karnataka after Congress MLA SN Subbareddy moved a motion seeking action against staff at state toll plazas for allegedly misbehaving with the public and with MLAs, MLCs and former legislators.