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Yogi Adityanath's plan to include 17 OBCs or Other Backward Class in the list of Scheduled Castes so they can derive quota benefits was put on hold by the Allahabad High Court on Monday, in a setback to the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister ahead of bypolls in the state.

Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi borrowed the words of British singer Elton John to describe Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "Howdy, Modi!" mega diaspora event in the United States, where President Donald Trump would join him.

Pakistan on Monday announced that the much-awaited Kartarpur corridor will be opened for Indian Sikh pilgrims on November 9.

Former Andhra Pradesh assembly Speaker Kodela Siva Prasad Rao -- who was found hanging at his Hyderabad home today -- was murdered, his nephew has said. The police, who after initial investigation said it appeared to be suicide, have now filed a case of "death in suspicious circumstance" -- meaning they are not ruling out foul play.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar's recent statement on his experience with Pakistani people has hotted up the hustings in poll-bound Maharashtra with Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday linking it with vote bank politics.

Wanted robber Babli Kol, who was carrying a reward of Rs 7 lakh on his head, was killed along with his partner Lavlesh in a gunfight with the Madhya Pradesh Police, officials have said.

Air India has ordered a "full inquiry" into the incident wherein President Ram Nath Kovind's flight was delayed at Zurich after a technical snag, sources said on Monday.

In a first, the Maharashtra government has joined hands with private drone operator Zilpline to deliver blood products and emergency medicines to people in remote areas in collaboration with Serum Institute of India (SII), an official said on Monday.

A team of Home Ministry officials on Monday inspected the ongoing construction work for Kartarpur corridor on the Indian side at Dera Baba Nanak in Gurdaspur.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will start his 69th birthday on Tuesday by visiting his mother Heeraben Modi, 98, who lives in Raisin village near Ahmedabad in his home state of Gujarat. The Prime Minister will then visit the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada River

The Nationalist Congress Party and the Congress will contest on 125 seats each in the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly election, NCP chief Sharad Pawar tweeted on Monday.

The National Conference (NC) on Monday said the party would take legal course to challenge the detention of its president Farooq Abdullah under the Public Safety Act (PSA) in Jammu and Kashmir.

E-commerce giants Amazon and Flipkart are all set to hold their annual festive season sales ahead of Diwali and Durga Puja due next month. Amazon's Great Indian Festival sale will kick off from midnight on September 29 and will end at midnight on October 4.

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah was on Monday charged under the Public Safety Act (PSA) - a stringent law that enables detention without trial for two years. The politician, 83, has been charged with "disturbing public order", which carries a three-month detention term. He has so far been under "unofficial" house arrest in Srinagar, which will now be his "jail". This is the first time PSA has been used on a mainstream politician, particularly one who is a three-time former Chief Minister. It has usually been used to arrest terrorists or separatists. Questioned over the timing of the move, sources said there worries Mr Abdullah might talk to the press about Kashmir, which could be awkward for the centre ahead of a UN meet later this month.

VS Gaitonde's untitled 1982 work, painted during the peak of his career, has fetched a whopping Rs 26.9 crores at Saffronart's recent live evening sale on Modern Indian Art, making it one of the top five highest value works ever sold by an Indian artist.