A video has gone viral showing a top level Trinamool Congress district leader sitting in her office with a gun in her hand in West Bengal's Malda district. The incident has triggered a political controversy in the state. ....

Karnataka Congress President D.K. Shivakumar said on Monday that he was sent to Tihar jail for not joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). ....

Former Shia Waqf Board chief Wasim Rizvi has converted to Hinduism after renouncing Islam. ....

India and Russia inked four agreements on Monday, including a contract for procurement of over six lakh AK-203 assault rifles. ....

The Supreme Court on Monday restrained the Maharashtra Police from filing charge sheet in all the FIRs registered against former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh, but allowed the investigation to proceed. The top court observed that prima facie it is of the view that the probe against Singh should be done by another agency and not by the state police. ....

Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Channi on Monday blamed his predecessor Amarinder Singh, Shiromani Akali Dal President Sukhbir Badal and the BJP for clandestinely harming the state's interests, with their sole focus on the forthcoming Assembly polls. ....

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday said that the situation in Nagaland is critical but it is under control and the government of India expressed deep regrets about the incident that happened in Mon district, Nagaland, and offered condolences to the families of the deceased. ....

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Monday met the protesting doctors at Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) hospital in the national capital. The resident doctors of five hospitals in Delhi are protesting for the past 10 days against the delay in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET)-PG 2021. ....

After JD(U) MLA Gopal Mandal accused his own party MP Ajay Mandal of involvement in the liquor trade and opium farming, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav slammed the Nitish Kumar government for failing to successfully implement the liquor ban in Bihar. ....

The 'Tukde gang' is trying to break India into pieces by saying 'Inshallah, Inshallah', BJP National General Secretary C.T. Ravi said on Monday. ....

Top officials from India and Russia discussed key bilateral, regional and international issues, including the situation in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover, during their meetings here on Monday. ....

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday informed the Lower House that Home Minister Amit Shah will make a statement over the Nagaland incident. It is learnt that the Home Minister is also likely to make a statement in the Rajya Sabha over the incident. ....

Two persons were killed after a speeding car ran over them in Hyderabad in the early hours of Monday, the police said. ....

In the past 24 hours, India registered 8,306 new coronavirus cases and 211 deaths, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said in its latest update on Monday. ....

After cases of Covid among people who recently travelled to Africa in Bihar's Gopalganj, two persons who returned from Dubai 10 days ago tested positive for Covid in Patna on Sunday. ....

India saw a single-day rise of 2,796 fatalities in the last 24 hours after Bihar carried out a reconciliation exercise of its Covid data. With this, the death toll in the country reached 4,73,326 even as the country reported 8,895 fresh Covid cases, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Sunday. ....

From Kiran Bedi, the first female IPS officer of India, to noted economist Raghuram Rajan to Sachin and Binny Bansal, the founders of Flipkart, the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi (IIT-D) has produced some famous personalities who have played a great role in the economic progress of the country. ....

The pioneering and anti-establishment television journalist, and a walking encyclopaedia on India's culinary secrets, Vinod Dua, passed away on Saturday, months after he lost his wife, the well-known radiologist Padmavati 'Chinna' Dua, during the peak of the pandemic earlier this year. ....

Confirming the state's worst fears, the first case of the Covid-19 variant Omicron has been detected in Maharashtra after a 33-year-old man -- who flew down from South Africa to Mumbai via Dubai and New Delhi -- tested positive, an official said here on Saturday. ....

Two Tripura State Rifles (TSR) jawans were gunned down in a fratricidal incident in western Tripura on Saturday, police said. ....