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The Congress on Monday welcomed a top US lawmaker's reference to Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru in his speech at the 'Howdy, Modi!' event organised for Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Houston, Texas. It would have been better had PM Modi shed his aversion to India's first Prime Minister and joined in endorsing what the American leader said, the Congress added.

The Congress on Monday announced candidates for by-elections to four assembly seats in Punjab, with former state youth Congress chief Raminder Amla to contest from Jalalabad, the constituency earlier represented by Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal.

Releasing an accused from jail on "oral instruction" from a magistrate despite the top court order cancelling the bail gave tough time to a jail superintendent of Uttar Pradesh on Monday before the Supreme Court which said the person responsible for this would "pay the price".

Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy said the central government is focused on the development of Jammu and Kashmir and elections will be held there once the situation returns back to normalcy.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the United Nation's Climate Change Summit today, besides participating in a Leaders' Dialogue on Strategic Responses to Terrorist and Violent Extremist Narratives.

The Madhya Pradesh government will compensate all flood victims by October 15 and the financial assistance will reach their doorstep, said Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Monday.

The Congress has announced a massive "padyatra" (foot march) across the country on October 2 with the party's interim President Sonia Gandhi leading the charge in Delhi while former Congress President Rahul Gandhi will do the same in Maharashtra's Wardha.

The collapse of Thomas Cook, one of the oldest tourist travel companies in the world, will be a "big, big blow" to the tourism industry in Goa, president of the Travel and Tourism Association of Goa Savio Messias said on Monday.

Former Union minister Chinmayanand, arrested in connection with a sexual assault case filed by a postgraduate student, was admitted to a hospital in Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow on Monday for treatment.

President Ram Nath Kovind today said that the gap between the government and the people must go as a group of 169 IAS officers of the 2017 batch called on him at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi, an official said.

Minister Anurag Thakur has called United States President Donald Trump's expressions "priceless" in a photograph in which he is seen smiling as Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivers his speech at the grand "Howdy, Modi!" event in Houston.

Three terrorists affiliated to the Hizbul Mujahideen, involved in four our terror cases, including the killings of a BJP leader and an RSS functionary in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district, have been arrested, the police said today.

Delhi knows Arvind Kejriwal as its Chief Minister, the leader of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and a consummate politician. On Sunday evening though, Mr Kejriwal's musical side made a comeback

Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Brinda Karat on Monday said that there is no law and order in Jharkhand and it is now known as ''Lynchistan''.

Appointment and transfer of judges form "the root of the administration of justice" and interference in that "does not augur well" for the institution, the Supreme Court said on Monday.