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The police have arrested a man who allegedly duped people by luring them into his fraudulent schemes after promising them high returns, officials said on Monday.

Monsoon 2020 news: Several houses were washed away and roads damaged due to cloudburst at Rudraprayag in Uttarakhand. The state saw heavy rain and thunderstorms on Monday. There have been reports of power cuts after trees fell on electrical wires at several locations in the hill state.

Alleging that political leaders from the south were deprived of opportunities by "Hindi politics and discrimination", JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy on Monday said it has prevented many South Indians from being the prime minister.

More than 500 people and 100 elephants die every year due to conflict with each other, officials of the environment ministry said today.

The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned for next week hearing on a petition seeking timely payment of salaries to the doctors and healthcare workers who are engaged in COVID-19 duty across the country.

Messages of sympathy received following the tragic plane crash in Kerala's Kozhikode are deeply appreciated, and they are a source of strength at this difficult time, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Monday.

In a bid to stem the spread of COVID-19, the Gujarat government on Monday increased the fine for not wearing mask in public places to Rs 1,000 from the present Rs 500.

Rajasthan Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) legislature party meeting will be held at 4 pm on Tuesday, said Ramlal Sharma, BJP MLA from Chomu on Monday.

Jammu and Kashmir's bureaucrat-turned-politician Shah Faesal quit politics today, resigning from the Jammu and Kashmir People's Movement, the party he founded last year after quitting the civil services. In a statement today, the party said, "Dr Shah Faesal had informed State Executive Members that he is not in a position to continue with political activities and wants to be freed from the responsibilities of the organization".

Maharashtra Cabinet Minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik on Monday alleged that some people are spreading "baseless" rumours about 12 MLAs of his party joining BJP.

The Gujarat government on Monday launched a new scheme under which farmers facing crop losses due to drought, excess rain or unseasonal rain will get compensation without collection of any premium from them.

Mumbai monsoon news: On a day when Mumbai was battling with torrential rain, the highest in four decades, 50-year-old Kanta Murti Kalan, stood for hours near an open manhole, on a waterlogged road, in Matunga. She was alerting people so that no one falls into the manhole. She was there for seven hours before civic workers arrived.

Actor Rhea Chakraborty filed a second petition with the Supreme Court on Monday, complaining against media reports that have "blown out of proportion" the ongoing investigations into Sushant Singh Rajput's death

Congress veteran Salman Khurshid and BJP's Amit Malviya offer insights into the history and politics of the citizenship law debate as they together attempt to present the two sides of the contentious issue in a new book.

A petition filed by a BJP MLA requesting a freeze on the merger of six former Bahujan Samaj Party MLAs with the Congress -- crucial for the Ashok Gehlot Government in Rajasthan -- will be taken up by the Supreme Court tomorrow. The MLA had approached the top court, urging that the matter, currently before a single judge of the Rajasthan High Court, be heard urgently in view of the beginning of the assembly session this week.