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A middle-aged BJP worker was found hanging outside a village in West Bengal's Paschim Medinipur district on Monday evening, around 24 hours after he went missing, police said.

The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena''s Hindutva has got "adulterated" in the company of its new allies NCP and the Congress, and the party now needs a "certificate" on the ideology from the BJP-RSS, senior BJP leader Ashish Shelar said on Monday.

Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday targeted RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav over the promise of "new Bihar" and photographs of his parents Lalu Prasad and Rabri Devi "missing" from the election posters and asked why he was "so ashamed" of the photos of the party leaders who are both former chief ministers of the state.

An unidentified terrorist was killed, while another surrendered during an encounter with security forces in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, a defence spokesperson said.

The Election Commission on Monday let off former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath with a warning for his "item" jibe against a woman BJP candidate and advised the Congress leader not to use such language in public during the period of the Model Code of Conduct.

The NCP on Monday defended Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray over his criticism of the BJP during the Shiv Senas Dussehra rally, saying he "mirrored reality" to the NDA lead constituent through his speech.

In a veiled attack at Mahagathbandhan's chief ministerial candidate Tejashwi Yadav, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said that some people are interested in their promotion and not in work.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, had a meeting on Monday wherein they agreed that US-India Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership is "critical to the security and prosperity" of both the countries, the Indo-Pacific region and the world.

Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri and MP Neeraj Shekhar are among eight candidates nominated by the BJP for the November 9 Rajya Sabha polls from Uttar Pradesh.

The draft of the Chhattisgarh Agriculture Produce Market (Amendment) Bill, 2020 to be tabled in a special session of the state Assembly on Tuesday was approved by the Bhupesh Baghel cabinet, officials said.

The national capital recorded 54 COVID-19 deaths on Monday, the highest in over three months, while 2,832 fresh cases pushed the infection tally to 3.59 lakh, according to Delhi government data.

Maharashtra has reduced the price for testing coronavirus infection using the RT-PCR method by up to 18 per cent. In an order on Monday, the Maharashtra government said it reduced the price to encourage more testing for the highly infectious virus.

A 21-year-old woman was shot dead outside her college in Ballabgarh in Haryana's Faridabad district on Monday, with police launching a manhunt to arrest two persons in connection with the crime.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive in Gujarat on October 30 on a two-day visit during which he is scheduled to launch a host of projects, including the famed seaplane service between Kevadiya and Ahmedabad, said an official on Monday.

The Enforcement Directorate has opposed a clean chit given by Mumbai Police to Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and others in connection with an alleged scam involving the Maharashtra State Cooperative (MSC) Bank