Maoists holding ruling Biju Janata Dal lawmaker Jhina Hikaka for the past 10 days in Odisha on Tuesday gave an April 5 deadline to the state government to fulfill their demands.

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Seeking to send a strong signal, Congress on Saturday decided to seek disqualification of 16 party MLAs in Andhra Pradesh who sided with Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy and voted against the party government in the assembly, defying the whip.

BSP MLA Shekhar Tiwari and nine others were on Friday sentenced to life imprisonment by a sessions court here for murdering PWD engineer Manoj Kumar Gupta after he refused to pay donations for chief minister Mayawati's birthday celebrations in 2008.

Ruling BJP MLA Rajkishore Keshri was on Tuesday stabbed to death allegedly by a woman visitor at his residence here on Tuesday.

Mr Keshri was meeting visitors at his residence when the woman identified as Rupam Pathak stabbed him, severely damaging his spleen which led to his death, director general of police Neelmani said.

A Samajwadi Party MLA's son and his aides allegedly fired indiscriminately at an automobile showroom here after a dispute with the staff, leaving one person dead and two others injured.

Bangalore: The Opposition Congress suffered another setback today when one of its legislator resigned from his Karnataka Assembly membership, making him the second from the party to do so in two days.

Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) MLA, Mr Vijay Kumar Singh alias Dabloo Singh was on Thursday booked for allegedly violating the model code of conduct for elections in Bihar.

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Patna, Jul 28: The Patna High Court today acquitted suspended JD(U) MLA Narendra Kumar Pandey alias Sunil Pandey in connection with the kidnapping of renowned Neuro Surgeon Dr Ramesh Chandra.

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All 12 Lok Janashakti Party MLAs on Thursday resigned from Bihar Assembly in protest against their suspension by Speaker, Mr Udaya Narain Chowdhary, for the rest of the session.

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Kolhapur (Maha), July 17: The Shiv Sena activists led by a local MLA stormed the studio of a news channel and assaulted a Kannada Rakshana Vedike leader for his alleged remarks against party supremo,