Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sanjay Joshi, considered to be close to party president Nitin Gadkari, has resigned ahead of the party's National Executive meeting beginning in Mumbai today.

More than 80 experts will participate in a three-day workshop on Acute Encephalitis at the Sanjay Gandhi Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences in Lucknow, which begins today.

 People across the country, who are often at the receiving end of fluctuating governmental policies, expressed their anguish over the sudden announcement of the petrol price hike by Rs. 7.50.

Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Sitaram Yechury has questioned government's move to hike the price of petrol, and alleged that one of the direct beneficiaries of this steep increase would be the government itself.

The union cabinet during its meeting Thursday is likely to take the final call on the National Telecom Policy (NTP) which proposes to abolish roaming charges within the country.

In the wake of frequent deaths of infants in government-run hospitals in the state, the West Bengal health department has directed all sub-divisional, district hospitals and medical colleges to conduct in-house probes if more than three babies die in a day.

The CBI Thursday arrested Andhra Pradesh Excise Minister Mopidevi Venkataramna in connection with a corruption case related to YSR Congress chief Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy.

The Left parties Thursday condemned the petrol price hike as "a savage attack" on people and announced an India-wide protest day May 31.

 The Uttar Pradesh government is seriously contemplating banning gutka and paan masala. The state's legal department has been asked to work on the proposal.

Work in most government offices across Jammu and Kashmir was crippled by the employees' three-day strike that started here Thursday, an official said.