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The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) Monday filed a plea in the Supreme Court challenging the law which criminalises instant "triple talaq".

Asserting that India and China share "cordial relations", Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday said that "perceptional differences" between both countries on boundary issue have been handled with "great maturity and responsibly".

BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur, known for making controversial remarks, has kicked up another row by addressing Mahatma Gandhi as "son of the nation" instead of "Father".

Cautioning that nothing could be more dangerous than people going after each other for religious reasons, former US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice on Monday said governments should stay above religious preferences in a democracy.

Congress MP H Vasanthakumar was arrested for alleged corrupt practices and staying in Nanguneri assembly constituency in the district in ''violation'' of election rules during a bypoll held there on Monday, the police said.

Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) units deployed in Jammu and Kashmir and Naxals area have planned to equip its dogs with cameras.

Heavy rainfall battered many parts of the country on Monday, throwing normal life out of gear and disrupting electoral activities being taken up as part of the assembly polls in Maharashtra and Haryana - besides by-elections in 17 states and one Union Territory. The bypolls in Kerala were particularly affected by the turn of the weather, forcing many to brave flooded streets and submerged polling booths to cast their votes. Parts of Maharashtra, which voted for its assembly elections, were also hit by heavy rain.

RSS general secretary Bhaiyyaji Joshi said on Monday that he did not think that Hindu leaders were unsafe in the country, but added that their safety should be ensured.

Two days since the attack on a Hindi-speaking migrant community of cattle rearers in Assam's Dibrugarh district in which one person died and four others were injured, tensions in the area remain high. Local police has started an investigation into the incident and are yet to track down those involved.

Veteran actor Javed Akhtar and his wife Shabana Azmi were among those who stepped out to participate in the 'celebration of democracy' by casting their votes in Mumbai on Monday.

The police on Monday found dismembered body parts of a missing CPI(M) leader, which were buried at two places in Birbhum district.

A Delhi court pulled up the CBI on Monday for providing an incomplete set of evidence on-record and asked it to submit the complete call data records of the Unnao rape survivor's uncle in the case of alleged murder of her father in judicial custody.

The turbulence in global software vendor Infosys over complaints of alleged unethical practices only looks set to get rougher, with unnamed employees accusing a top company official of mocking two independent directors with a derogatory reference to their place of origin, news agency IANS has reported.

Nirmala Banerjee, mother of Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee, on Monday said everyone was entitled to freedom of speech and critics of her son should respect the opinions of others.

India plans to build a string of renewable energy projects along its western border, the officials said today, as the country continues an ambitious programme to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels.