Nadim Asrar With Agency Inputs

• Sheila Dikshit likely to be appointed Governor of Kerala

  Former three-time Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit was appointed the Governor of Kerala within three months of her defeat in the recent Assembly polls, news agency PTI said.

• PM meets President Pranab Mukherjee, Arvind Kejriwal's protest features in talks

  As Delhi remains grid-locked by a stand-off between Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and the Delhi Police, the Prime Minister met President Pranab Mukherjee this evening and briefed him on Mr Kejriwal's sit-in protest, now in its second day.

• Baba Ramdev joins 'Narendra Modi for PM' chorus

  The BJP's top leadership, including its prime ministerial hopeful Narendra Modi, shared stage with Baba Ramdev in the national capital today.

• Assembly election results: down to the wire in Chhattisgarh

  The "exit poll of polls," an average of the exit polls conducted by different agencies, showed the BJP getting 52 and the Congress 35 in the 90-seat Assembly.

• Cyclone Helen makes landfall in coastal Andhra Pradesh, at least two dead

  Cyclone Helen has hit the north-eastern coast of Andhra Pradesh, where local authorities have evacuated nearly 11,000 people.

• Arvind Kejriwal forgives heckler who threw black ink at him

  Activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal says he has forgiven the heckler who disrupted his press conference and threw ink at him and his associates in Delhi today.

• Rahul Gandhi should apologise for ISI remark on Muzaffarnagar riots: Jairam Ramesh

  "What will Rahul Gandhi say or do, I can't say. If you're saying he should clarify his statement and apologise, then I agree with you," he said.

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  Russia delivers super aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya to India

  After almost a decade of negotiations and reconstruction, the super aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya formally joined the Indian Navy today at a ceremony attended by Defence Minister AK Antony and the Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin at the Arctic port of Severodvinsk. By early next year, the warship will be out patrolling the Indian Oc...

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  5 killed, over 70 injured in blasts ahead of Narendra Modi's rally in Patna

  Five people were killed and nearly 20 injured in seven crude bomb explosions in Patna before Narendra Modi arrived at the city's Gandhi Maidan to address thousands of supporters and launch his party's campaign for the national election, due by May.

• Rain fury: 32 die in Andhra Pradesh, 10 in Odisha; thousands evacuated

  The flood situation in India's east coast turned grim on Saturday with at least 42 people having lost their lives and thousands evacuated in the last four days in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha. After Cyclone Phailin, now a cyclonic storm that turned into a deep depression over the Bay of Bengal has caused incessant rains, inundated hundreds of villages...

• Narendra Modi to address rally in poll-bound Rajasthan today

  Through his Janjaati Morcha Sammelan, the Bharatiya Janata Party prime ministerial candidate is hoping to woo the tribals who constitute a significant part of the voters in the region.

• Telangana: Ministerial panel meets in Delhi, says has received 2000 emails on bifurcation

  The Centre's high-profile Group of Ministers (GoM) set up to look into the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh discussed various issues concerning the sharing of river water, power, distribution of assets and boundaries at its second meeting in New Delhi today.

• Cyclone Phailin impact: railway services on east coast come to a halt

  The tropical cyclone Phailin, that pounded coastal Odisha and Andhra Pradesh last night, destroyed railway signals and high-tension electricity wires and uprooted tracks and railway platforms at various stations, bringing the rail services in the region to a halt.

• Narendra Modi to address rally in Haryana today, his first as BJP's PM candidate

  Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will address his first rally after becoming the BJP's prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 general elections in Haryana's Rewari town today.

• Congress president Sonia Gandhi leaves for medical check-up in US

  Congress president Sonia Gandhi today left for the United States to undergo medical check-up, party sources said.