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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday presented a large portrait of the Taj Mahal to United States President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, as the couple departed from Agra for New Delhi for the final and main leg of their two-day visit.

Two more Indian crew members onboard a cruise ship stranded near a Japan coast have tested positive for coronavirus, taking the total number of infected Indians on the vessel to 14, the Indian embassy said on Monday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said US President Donald Trump's name 22 times during the "Namaste Trump" event, organised in the honour of the visiting American President, on Monday.

Maujpur in northeast Delhi witnessed large scale violence on Monday when anti and pro-citizenship law protesters got into a scuffle that escalated into stone throwing and vehicles being set on fire. Within a few hours, reports of violence emerged from the nearby areas of Bhajanpura and Chand Bagh too.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi has appealed to the people of Delhi to maintain communal harmony and defeat the powers that are trying to divide the nation on the basis of religion, the Congress said in a statement.

Rangers have suspended safari rides in a popular nature reserve in eastern India after five one-horned female rhinoceroses died from a suspected infectious disease, officials said Monday.

Impressed by the beauty of Taj Mahal, White House Advisor Ivanka Trump on Monday said that the grandeur of the 17th century was "awe-inspiring".

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and his minister-son Aaditya Thackeray today sent a 'chadar' to be offered at the Ajmer Sharif dargah on behalf of their party Shiv Sena.

India is likely to send a military transport aircraft to the coronavirus-hit Wuhan on February 26 to deliver relief material and bring back more Indians following a clearance from China, Union Health ministry officials said on Monday.

To mark former chief minister J Jayalalithaa's birth anniversary, Tamil Nadu government gifted gold rings to newborn babies today.

The Congress on Monday questioned the ''silence'' of Home Minister Amit Shah over the clashes in Delhi and demanded his resignation, as party leader Rahul Gandhi urged people to show restraint, compassion and understanding irrespective of the provocation.

In the early hours of Monday morning, Ravi Pujari, fugitive for decades, accused of murder and extortion, returned to Bengaluru in the custody of Karnataka police. The team and the man who had been on the run for decades landed at the city's international airport. Pujari was picked up in Senegal by a five member team of police from Bengaluru headed by senior police officer Amar Kumar Pandey.

Chaos ensued inside the Maharashtra Assembly on the first day of budget session after the Shiv Sena-Congress-NCP government released the first list of beneficiaries of its farm loan waiver scheme. The BJP accused the government of playing with farmers' emotions.

The Allahabad High Court has ordered UP Police to identify and act against cops who vandalised two-wheelers parked outside the Aligarh Muslim University during a violent face-off with students in December last year

Super expensive morel mushrooms, a "regal" leg of lamb and Rashtrapati Bhavan's iconic Dal Raisina will be on the menu when President Ram Nath Kovind hosts a dinner banquet for US President Donald Trump on Tuesday at the end of the American leader's first official visit to India.