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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee lashed out at the BJP government at the Centre on Monday for planning to introduce the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB), 2019 in Parliament and said the proposed legislation is a "trap" like the National Register of Citizen (NRC) to exclude Bengalis and Hindus as legal citizens of the country.

Avalanche hits Army positions in Siachen, some soldiers trapped in snow: news agency ANI

An amount of nearly Rs 3 crore has allegedly been released by some officials of the Ranchi unit of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) to unidentified people, prompting the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to lodge a case and probe four persons and a Chennai-based firm.

Expressing anguish over West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee not informing him on the losses incurred by the state due to cyclone ''Bulbul'', Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday said he expects the CM to brief him about it within a few days.

Union Minister Ramdas Athawale today suggested a power-sharing deal between the BJP and Shiv Sena to end the political uncertainty in Maharashtra, currently under President's Rule. Both parties will get a chance to occupy the chief minister's post under the proposed agreement that has already been discussed with Sena leader Sanjay Raut, he said.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Sharad Pawar, after a 45-minute meeting with Congress president Sonia Gandhi at her home in Delhi today, said more discussions would be held before a final word on getting together with the Shiv Sena to form government in Maharashtra. "We have to sort out some more issues," Sharad Pawar told reporters.

CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Monday condemned the police action on protesting students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, saying it was not the right way to deal with democratic protests.

The Rajya Sabha should be given "greater respect by the executive", and should be consulted before "drastic measures" are taken, like "converting a state into Union Territories and redrawing its boundaries", former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday, referring to the government's move to end special status to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 and split it into two union territories.

At times when Congress and NCP are working on an alliance with Shiv Sena over government formation in Maharashtra, JD (S) leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy said that it would be much easier for the Congress to enter into an alliance with BJP rather than going with Shiv-Sena as the former has "soft-Hindutva" face while Shiv Sena is known for its "Hard-Hindutva" stance.

The leaders of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union have gone for a meeting with the Human Resource Development secretary after a day-long protest over fee hike. The protesters are returning to campus now, sources said.

The Delhi High Court declined on Monday to entertain a plea by two lawyers seeking to replace the police with some other security force in the courts in view of the clash between the two sides earlier this month.

BSP president Mayawati on Monday asked the Uttar Pradesh government to resolve the demand of the protesting farmers in Unnao district for adequate compensation for their land acquired for an upcoming township and desist from using force against them.

The Odisha government has directed junior officers to maintain official decorum at the workplace and refrain from addressing their superiors as 'bhai'.

Newly-appointed Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sharad Arvind Bobde on Monday sat on the dais in a courtroom with Chief Justice of Jamaica Bryan Sykes and senior-most Judge of Bhutan's Supreme Court, Justice Kuenlay Tshering.

Two maoists were arrested by security forces in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district and a tiffin bomb planted by them was also recovered, police said today.