West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said she has blocked Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Twitter, "disturbed" by his regular posts against her government on the microblogging platform.

In an incident that came to light on Monday morning, the lock to the Nekkittadka Dargah’s door was found broken during early hours revealing the theft of cash from the Dargah near Mardhala.

A meeting between Anand Singh, a minister in the BJP government in Karnataka, and state Congress chief D K Shivakumar at the latter's residence here on Monday has sparked speculations, amid recent claims by the opposition party leaders that some ruling party leaders, including ministers, were in touch with them.

Mohammed Haris Nalapad reportedly accepted the position of the state Youth Congress president on Monday. 

 In an incident that reportedly occurred on Monday morning, police resorted to lathi-charging the ABVP activists who were demonstrating in front of the administrative office of the Bengaluru University demanding solutions to educational issues. 

The Govindarajanagar police station officers arrested three individuals for plotting a robbery and their involvement in the theft of two-wheeler vehicles, mobile phones on Sunday. The police have also seized assets estimated in lakhs from the accused, it is learned. 

The Kerala High Court on Monday said that certain aspects in relation to the killing of an RSS worker, who was hacked to death in November last year in Palakkad district, require to be probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

Days after the Maharashtra government allowed the sale of wine in supermarkets and walk-in stores, BJP MP Pratap Patil Chikhilar has said the state government should also give permission to farmers for the cultivation of cannabis.