03:34 pm: How can we have upper hand? BJP has 2, upper hand will be NPP 19, followed by next upper hand UDP, they are 6. We are in discussion with PDF also. That is why at 5 pm we are going to meet governor with 29 members, that number will definitely go up: Himanta Biswa Sarma, Meghalaya (ANI)
03:32 pm: South Korea to send high-level officials to North for talks (AP)
03:31 pm: Members of Germany's Social Democratic Party vote to form a coalition government with Chancellor Angela Merkel's bloc (AP)
03:29 pm: Boney Kapoor said to me, "Can you believe it, that there was not a drop of water on the floor near the tub." He said that the investigation in Dubai went on for long. He shared the details with me as friend: Komal Nahata, Film critic on his blog (ANI)
03:24 pm: Boney ji wanted to surprise Sridevi, so he returned to Dubai. Sridevi went to get ready for dinner, but after sometime when he kept calling her name and she didn't respond, he pushed opened the bathroom door to find her drowned in the bathtub: Komal Nahata, Film critic on his blog (ANI)
03:18 pm: SP govt believed in discrimination, we don't. Development for all is our supreme concern. The misdeeds of the SP govt are enormous & as a result it took us 9-10 months to work on them: UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in Allahabad's Nawabganj (ANI)
03:08 pm: Mukul Sangma submitted his resignation as Meghalaya Chief Minister to Governor Ganga Prasad in Shillong (ANI)
02:54 pm: Jammu and Kashmir: A beacon official, a JCB operator and two locals who were washed away in an avalanche at Pharkian Top have been rescued from Keran sector in Kupwara district (ANI)
02:47 pm: But Jinnah wasn't impressed by the suggestion possibly because he felt it wasn't easy for him to gain acceptability as India PM. Nehru was also in hurry to take over as PM .Lot of opportunistic adjustments were done by patriarch of National Conference Sheikh Abdullah: Jitendra Singh (ANI)
02:46 pm: He should read history. We have references which indicate that Mahatma Gandhi himself had suggested to Jinnah that if he agrees to withdraw demand of Pakistan's creation, Gandhi would persuade Cong to accept Jinnah as PM of undivided India: Jitendra Singh on Farooq Abdullah (ANI)
02:30 pm: Respect mandate of the people. I met Governor and I have indicated that I will come back with letters of support from like-minded people. BJP has only 2 MLAs how would they like to form the govt? They want to fire from the shoulder of other political parties: Mukul Sangma in Shillong (ANI)
02:20 pm: Manik Sarkar submits his resignation as Tripura CM to Governor Tathagata Roy. Sarkar will continue as the CM until the new govt is sworn in (ANI)
02:12 pm: Members of Germany's Social Democratic Party vote to form a coalition government with Chancellor Angela Merkel's bloc (The Associated Press)
02:06 pm:
01:49 pm: 2 killed, 5 injured in a collision between two vehicles in Ludhiana's Dugri, Punjab. The vehicles also hit three passers-by following the collision. One of the vehicle was carrying a bride for bridal makeup who was also injured in the incident (ANI)
01:18 pm:
01:14 pm: 'Newly elected MLA AL Hek declared the Leader of BJP Legislature Party in Meghalaya Legislative Assembly,' tweets MoS Home Kiren Rijiju #MeghalayaElections2018 (ANI)
12:28 pm:
12:18 pm: BJP President Amit Shah arrives at Maharashtra's Nagpur airport, will visit RSS Headquarters later today (ANI)
12:17 pm: Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar arrives at Governor House in Agartala (ANI)
