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The Supreme Court today took note of the July 20 lynching incident in Alwar district in Rajasthan, after it had issued a slew of directions on dealing with cow vigilantism and asked the state government to file its response about the action taken in the case.

Hundreds have died and several lakhs have been rendered homeless in flood-hit Kerala. Relief teams have been working tirelessly to rescue people and ensuringfood, water and medicines reach each and every person in the state. Help has been pouring from all over the world, but the state "doesn't need food and clothes", according to Union minister KJ Alphons. What the state desperately needs is technical assistance to rebuild and recreate, he said.

A day after actor Farhan Akhtar pointed out an error in a textbook depicting him as legendary athlete Milkha Singh, Trinamool Congress MP Derek O'Brien today said the book was neither a part of government school curriculum not was it published by the state.

The two men, detained for allegedly attacking JNU student leader Umar Khalid, claimed today that they were cow vigilantes who had come to disrupt the event that was underway at Constitution Club in Delhi to draw attention towards protection of cows, police said.

Kerala floods: A day after a test-landing by a medium-size plane on a wet runway, the first commercial flight hit the tarmac at the naval base in flood-hit Kochi this morning. The Alliance Air twin-turboprop ATR aircraft, which came from Bengaluru, took off again with a full load of passengers.

Naval rescue chopper pilot Commodore Vijay Varma and his men got a unique thank you note, days after Sajitha Jabil, was rescued from the rooftop of her house, in Chengamanad near Aluva in Kerala. A huge 'Thanks' was painted on the roof of the house, from where Commodore Varma had rescued Sajitha on August 17. The 25-year-old pregnant woman's water bag broke, when she was stranded on the rooftop and the flood waters had reached the first floor.

Fugitive billionaire Nirav Modi is in the UK, officials there have confirmed to India for the first time. The CBI has moved a request to London to extradite the celebrity jeweler, who is wanted for loan fraud.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi paid tribute to former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, the father of the Congress president, on his 74th birth anniversary on Monday.

Sewa International, an Indian non-profit organisation in America, has raised over $10,000 for the flood relief operations in the deluge-hit Kerala. Nearly 200 people have lost their lives in Kerala since August 8 due to floods caused by rains and landslides, while over 3.14 lakh people have been moved to relief camps.

The Maharashtra Anti-Terror Squad has made one more arrest in connection with the arms haul at Nallasopara in Palghar district on the outskirts of Mumbai.

Kerala floods: India stepped up relief operations for the worst flood in Kerala, deploying additional rescue teams, helicopters and motorboats, as the number of dead mounted

The Kerala diaspora in the Middle East is extending help and support to those hit by the devastating floods in the state.

A fisherman in Kerala is literally doing a backbreaking job to rescue elderly women in the flood-ravaged state. 32-year-old Jaiswal KP, went down on all four, into nearly waist deep water and offered his back so that elderly women could use him as a step and climb into the inflatable rescue boats.

A Pakistani fishing boat with nine crew members on board has been apprehended by the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) from the Arabian Sea off the Gujarat coast, a release said on Monday.

The head of Amazon.com Inc.'s India business has a radical idea for his troops: Log off, get a life. In an memo to his team this month, Amit Agarwal counseled colleagues to stop responding to emails or work calls between 6 p.m. and 8 a.m. in the interest of "work-life harmony."