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NCP chief Sharad Pawar met Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday evening to discuss better co-ordination on critical issues, sources told NDTV

The number of COVID-19 cases in Mumbai spiked by 1,201 on Monday, taking the total count to 85,326, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.

A group of around 12 men stand on the edge of a bridge washed away by the heavy rains in Gujarat's Junagadh on Monday, a video, shared multiple times on social media, shows. The nearly 30-year-old masonry bridge in Bamnasa village over the Sabli river served as a lifeline for the locals who used it for their daily commute to and from their village.

Bengaluru has seen a 15.7 per cent increase in new coronavirus cases over the past three days, data showed on Monday, compared to 2.6 per cent in Delhi and 1 per cent in Mumbai

The number of coronavirus in Delhi crossed the 1 lakh mark on Monday evening.

A 24-year-old man allegedly faked his own abduction here to extort Rs five lakh from his uncle to apparently fund his sister's wedding, police said on Monday.

Various Central and state government offices were shut, shops and business establishments closed and public transport, including buses,were off the roads in Thiruvananthapuram Corporation limits as triple lockdown measures came into force on Monday in thebackdrop of the rise in COVID-19 cases.

As Bengaluru sees a sharp spike in coronavirus cases, one of the fallouts that has emerged is of people in need of ambulances having to wait for hours for one to arrive. We spoke to a woman, in her 50s, who was called by the authorities and was told that she was COVID-19 positive. She had been tested at a private hospital where she had gone for treatment as she had been feeling unwell.

Mumbai today received a retrofitted autorickshaw which will bring oxygen treatment to the doorstep of severely unwell COVID-19 patients in its populous slums, where density has hindered the fight against the coronavirus disease.

Mumbai's suburbs and neighbouring Thane district received over 100 mm rainfall in the last 24 hours, the IMD said on Monday and predicted more heavy showers in those areas and other parts of Konkan Maharashtra.

Four Maoists, whose identity is unconfirmed, were killed on Sunday in an exchange of fire with the security forces in Odisha's Kandhamal district. Combing operations are on in the dense jungle areas to search for the group of 35-40 Maoists, armed with sophisticated weapons and heavy explosives, the police said.

The Delhi government on Sunday instructed all health care facilities to carry out compulsory rapid antigen detection testing of patients with ILI symptoms, patients admitted with SARI and other high-risk individuals who visit their facilities.

The Gautam Buddh Nagar Police has attached illegal properties, including land and luxury cars, worth Rs 11.35 crore of dreaded gangsters Sundar Bhati and Anil Dujana and their associates in a crackdown on regional mafia, officials said on Sunday.

A man was feared drowned while two others managed to save themselves on Sunday when their pick-up van was swept away due to strong river current on the outskirts of Rajkot in Gujarat, officials said.

The Kerala government on Sunday decided to impose triple lockdown in Thiruvananthapuram corporation limits following a spike in coronavirus cases.