Udupi Pejawar Math seer, Vishwaprasanna Theertha Swamiji, on Monday said that Ram Mandir is just a step towards uniting the Hindus and also warned that Hindu community should always remain united as there are 'many efforts' going on to hurt the Hindu religious sentiments. ....

In view of the surge in coronavirus cases, Karnataka decided to screen people travelling from Covid-hit Kerala, Maharashtra and Punjab to the state to contain the pandemic, an official said on Monday. ....

Contuing their probes into the SUV case and the death of Thane businessman Mansukh Hiran, the Maharashtra ATS on Monday raided arrested cop Sachin Vaze's home and other places, while the NIA recorded the statement of his widow and others. ....

Congress star campaigner in Kerala Rahul Gandhi, who arrived in the state on Monday, did not lose much time in hitting the campaign trail and hitting out at the Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left government's "misrule". ....

Maharashtra Covid-19 cases tally crossed the 25 lakh mark while Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) surpassed the 8 lakh figure on Monday, though the day's infections and deaths came down markedly as the state grapples with the "second wave", health officials said. ....

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra claimed on Monday that the BJP governments in Assam and at the Centre have been selling endangered animals and strategic assets to their close friends for which the saffron party must be voted out of power in the coming Assembly elections in the northeastern state. ....

Kamal Haasan, the actor-turned-politician and Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) President, said he is not afraid of raids and that the Central agencies are threatening him. ....

India has decided to extend the interval between doses of Covishield vaccines from four to eight to four to eight weeks, the Health Ministry said on Monday. ....

The Lulu group owned by multi-billionaire Keralite businessman M.A. Yusuf Ali has, heeding the call of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to support the Kashmiri apple farmers, imported around 400 tons of Kashmiri apples to the middle east. ....

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Assam government will retain its power in the state as the people have realised that the Congress-AIUDF alliance will not be able to curb infiltrations and corruption. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday virtually launched the 'catch the rain' campaign programme and also congratulated the Chief Ministers of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh for signing an MoU on the Ken-Betwa link project. ....

Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh has moved the Supreme Court stating that Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh has been interfering in various investigations and sought the CBI to immediately conduct an unbiased, uninfluenced, impartial and fair investigation in the various corrupt malpractices carried out by Anil Deshmukh. ....

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar has given a clean chit to Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh and said the allegations against Anil Deshmukh, made in former Mumbai Police chief Param Bir Singh's letter, are "vague". ....

Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma, who also holds the higher education portfolio, has announced the setting up of a Shri Ram University in Ayodhya. ....

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday claimed to have swept the elections to the six municipal councils and one municipal corporation poll. ....

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday carried out searches at six locations in Mumbai of the premises linked to three SEBI officials in connection with the Saradha chit fund scam. ....

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat has tested positive for coronavirus and has isolated himself. ....

Six states cumulatively contributed to 84.49 per cent of the cases of Covid-19 registered in the last 24 hours from across the country, according to the Union ministry of health and family welfare on Monday. Maharashtra, Punjab, Kerala, Karnataka, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh are among the states which have added most to the country’s daily tally of Covid-19 cases. ....

Two days after former Mumbai Commissioner of Police Param Bir Singh's 'letter-bomb', the Nationalist Congress Party on Monday accused the IPS officer of 'lying' and issuing a video statement said there were serious doubts on the sequence of events mentioned in the letter to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. ....

Former Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Monday attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party, saying that it has shown its real face in the West Bengal manifesto. ....