Uttarakhand Minister Sacked Amid BJP Infighting Ahead Of Polls, Other Top Stories
Just weeks ahead of the Uttarakhand assembly elections, the BJP on Sunday expelled Harak Singh Rawat, a minister in the state government, from the party following more than a month of internal wrangling. A month after switching over to the Trinamool Congress from the Congress and just weeks ahead of the assembly elections, former Goa MLA Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco on Sunday quit the Mamata Banerjee-led party. Kathak legend Pandit Birju Maharaj died at his home in Delhi late Sunday after suffering a heart attack. He was 83.
