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Bihar minister Santosh Kumar Suman resigned on Tuesday alleging "pressure" from Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JD(U) to merge the Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) founded by his father and ex-CM Jitan Ram Manjhi.

Cabinet notification about acceptance of the resignation came shortly afterwards, in a clear indication that it was c

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, whom Suman had handed over his resignation, told reporters, "The letter of resignation speaks of the inability to stay together because of personal reasons."

The Shiv Sena (UBT) on Wednesday dubbed the rival Sena headed by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde as a "slave of Delhi” after the party founder late Bal Thackeray's picture did not feature in an advertisement about the popularity of the ruling alliance.

The editorial in the Sena (UBT) mouthpiece `Saamana' claimed that Bal Thackeray's picture was missing due to the "fear" of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home minister Amit Shah.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Tuesday reiterated the promise of hiking pensions with biannual dearness reliefs (DRs) to all eligible retired employees under the new Guaranteed Pension Scheme (GPS).

He reiterated this commitment to the leaders of various government employees' unions who called on him at his camp office on Tuesday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un issued an order to local authorities to ban suicides after data showed numbers skyrocketing, according to government officials who spoke to Radio Free Asia.

The exact number of suicides in North Korea is difficult to ascertain as the regime rarely offers insight into the country's shortcomings. However, the South Korean National Intelligence Service estimated in May that suicides had increased by about 40 per cent from the previous year.

The Thane cops who assisted the Ghaziabad police in tracking down the alleged religious conversion accused Shahnawaz Khan alias Baddo (23) say that based on their probe and interrogation of the accused, they have found no cases of religious conversion in Mumbra.

Nipun Agarwal, DCP from Ghaziabad police station earlier said that they had received information about mass conversion in Mumbra of around 400 people carried out by the case, which is yet to be verified by them. The Thane police began investigating the matter based on the statement by Agarwal.