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After 16 years of the crime, former Punjab Deputy Inspector General Kultar Singh along with five other police personnel were held guilty by a local court in a mass suicide case.

Ahead of US President Donald Trump's visit to India next week, preparations are underway in Agra where the administration is beautifying the entire route from Kheria Airport to Taj Mahal.

Four Congress leaders from Madhya Pradesh on Monday urged the party leadership to field Priyanka Gandhi Vadra from the state in the Rajya Sabha election.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee held a one-on-one meeting with Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday, in what is being seen as a sign of thaw in their frosty relationship.

In a significant development, the Maharashtra government will conduct a parallel investigation into the Elgar Parishad - Koregaon-Bhima case, a senior state minister said on Monday.

Arvind Kejriwal today took charge as the Chief Minister for the third time today, and named a cabinet with minimum changes, that involved portfolio reshuffle. No new minister was named despite speculation about the inclusion of a younger face and a woman -- Raghav Chadha and Atishi.

A batch of about 200 people, who were among over 400 quarantined at an Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) facility in Delhi after being evacuated earlier this month from coronavirus-hit Wuhan in China, were discharged on Monday, a senior official said.

The Indian embassy in Tokyo on Monday said the four Indians infected with the novel coronavirus on board the quarantined cruise ship moored off the Japanese coast were responding well to treatment even as 99 new cases of COVID-19 were reported, taking the number of those infected to 454 on the vessel.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday flagged off the Kashi Mahakal Express, the third corporate passenger train, via video conferencing.

Congress leader Milind Deora was admonished by his party and advised to "introspect" on his own role after his effusive praise for Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), followed by a wrangle on social media with colleague Ajay Maken. Without naming Milind Deora, the Congress drove home its sharp disapproval of his Twitter posts.

The government is exploring options to evacuate them, sources in the Indian Embassy in Japan have said.

A college in Bhuj town of Gujarat's Kutch district has suspended its principal, hostel rector and peon after police registered an FIR against them for allegedly forcing over 60 girls to remove their undergarments to check if they were menstruating.

Taking a cue from Mamata Banerjee's ''Didi ke bolo'' outreach programme, the West Bengal BJP is planning to launch ''BJP ke bolo'' initiative ahead of municipal elections in the state.

India, the world's second-most populous nation, is facing the ripple effects of shutdowns in China with production of medicines to mobile phones being hit as supply chain disruptions prolong.

A Magsaysay Award-winning social activist was arrested by the Lucknow police on Monday, while he was about to take out a protest march against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens in the Uttar Pradesh capital.The activist, Sandeep Pandey, was released on bailafter being produced in the District Magistrate's court.