Lieutenant General (retd) Nirbhay Sharma, one of the most decorated field commanders of Indian Army, has been appointed Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, an official statement from Rashtrapati Bhavan said on Thursday.

Amid sporadic violence, nearly 70 percent of 1.1 crore rural voters on Sunday exercised their franchise for Panchayat Samiti and Zila Parishad elections in Punjab.

Scores of BJP women activists were detained on Sunday when they staged a protest outside Congress President Sonia Gandhi's residence against the rape of afive-year-old girl.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's three-hour visit to Assam to file his nomination paper for his fifth Rajya Sabha term was marred by widespread protests by different organizations.

Opposition Congress on Tuesday staged a walkout from the Madhya Pradesh Assembly in Bhopal after they charged the state government of being "insensitive" towards agitating contractual teachers, who are demanding wages at par with the permanent staff.

BJP vice-president and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Uma Bharti turned 52 on Friday.

The bar association of the district court called a day-long strike paralyzing legal work after a Madhya Pradesh High Court (Indore bench) lawyer was arrested on Thursday for allegedly teasing a woman sub-inspector in Vijaynangar area on Wednesday night, the police said.

Congressmen in Madhya Pradesh will sink all their differences before upcoming Assembly polls in the state to prevent the BJP from coming to power again, Union Minister of State Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Sunday.

The team of controversial Punjabi film 'Sadda Haq', which reportedly glorifies terrorists in Punjab, on Tuesday staged a candle light protest march here against the banning of the movie.

Pakistani prisoners in high security Kot Bhalwal jail in Jammu have gone on 'fast' protesting the death of Sanaullah Ranjay at a hospital in Chandigarh on Thursday.