Seven fishermen were saved from the jaws of death by locals on Monday, as the fishermen’s boat sank in the sea in Ucchila on Monday.

Deploring that young minds are falling prey to gambling and going astray, former Karnataka minister and senior BJP legislator Suresh Kumar has written to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman requesting her to take immediate steps to ban advertising, marketing, and texting by online gaming companies.

A five-member TMC parliamentary delegation met the chief election commissioner on Monday and registered their protest against the arrest of party spokesperson Saket Gokhale by the Gujarat Police.

Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) VC Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit on Monday said "outsiders" might be involved in the scribbling of anti-Brahmin slogans on several walls inside the campus and that further inquiry into the matter was underway.

A total of 1,179 Bru militants belonging to two outfits surrendered in Assam's Hailakandi district on Monday, police said.

Revenue Minister R Ashoka has said that as many as 10 members of the Congress in Karnataka will soon be joining the BJP.

The Delhi High Court on Monday directed the authorities to ensure compliance with the law prohibiting manufacture, sale and distribution of e-cigarettes.

A 24-year-old lady police official posed as a medical student to crack a case of ragging reported at the government-run Mahatma Gandhi Memorial (MGM) medical college in Madhya Pradesh's Indore, an official Monday said.