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A key ally of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Goa has said that the government in the state should continue "with or without" the ailing Manohar Parrikar as the chief minister.

A 38-year-old man committed suicide in Maharashtra's Parbhani district as he was allegedly fed up with a woman's persistent demand for sex, police said Monday.

Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan today said Indian scientists along with their counterparts from the US and Finland have developed a mechanism that will soon be able to forewarn depletion in air quality. The Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in Pune, the India Meteorological Department and the meteorology centre in Noida will work together on the air quality issue, Harsh Vardhan said. These three institutions will help to calculate, take measures and give a three-day warning about depleting air quality.

Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar is in better health now and he would complete his tenure, Goa BJP Chief Vijay Tendulkar said.

Several women rights activists today said they were not surprised by Union Minister MJ Akbar's decision to go to court against a journalist who has accused him of sex harassment. One of the activists, Vani Subramanian, said Mr Akbar was "not the first man to not accept his mistakes" and won't be the last.

Foreign tourists can now visit Andaman and Nicobar Islands without any restrictions.

US President Donald Trump said Monday he'd received a strong denial from Saudi Arabia's king of any involvement in the disappearance of a critical journalist and that "rogue killers" might be to blame.

Ahead of the nine-phased panchayat elections in Jammu and Kashmir from November 17, residents of Hanga-Noori panchayat in Doda district have launched 'no road, no vote' campaign, as part of which they will not exercise their franchise, if their road complaints are not addressed.

India and China launched a programme on Monday to train Afghan diplomats and China's ambassador has said it would likely be followed by joint programmes in other fields to help war-torn Afghanistan.

Thirty-one people from Bangladesh who came to India illegally have been detained at Guwahati railway station, the police said today. The group was detained when they were preparing to board Kanchanjunga Express to go to Agartala this morning, Railway Police Deputy Superintendent Iftekar Ali said.

A case was lodged on Monday against former JNU Students Union leader Kanhaiya Kumar and his dozens of supporters over their alleged misbehaviour with a doctor, nurses and a security guard of AIIMS-Patna, police said.

Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Monday ordered an internal probe into the unexplained disappearance of prominent journalist Jamal Khashoggi as a joint Turkish-Saudi team was set to search the Saudi consulate in Istanbul where he was last seen on October2.

A student of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Indore was killed and two of his classmates were injured in a road accident in Amravati district of Maharashtra, police said today.

With the government today saying it will not relax the Reserve Bank of India's October 15 deadline for data localisation, the road ahead has become tough for global digital payment providers who have sought more time to comply with the guidelines. The RBI guidelines say that all digital payment firms like Google Pay, WhatsApp and others must store data locally for their businesses. The deadline to comply with the norms ended today.

Australia's indigenous affairs minister and several of his colleagues faced calls to resign Monday, after they backed a failed parliamentary motion tabled by a controversial senator that declared: "It is okay to be white."