Remembering former President A P J Abdul Kalam on his 87th birth anniversary, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday described him as a "wonderful motivator" and a great president.

The Indian men's and women's hockey teams went down in their respective finals but managed to script history by picking up their maiden silver medals in the five-a-side competition of the Youth Olympic Games here.

At least 14 labourers were injured, three of them seriously, when an under-construction bridge collapsed at Bonai in Sundargarh district, the police said.

 Four persons have been arrested for allegedly assaulting a television journalist near his house in south Mumbai, police said Monday.

 Disgruntled BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha criticised the BJP government at the Centre over the Rafale deal.

He said a French publication had quoted former French president Francois Hollande as saying that the Indian government had proposed Reliance Defence as a partner for the French aerospace major Dassault Aviation for the deal.

The Kerala High Court Monday granted conditional bail to Bishop Franco Mulakkal, arrested over allegations of repeatedly raping and sexually assaulting a nun.

Three alleged criminals were arrested in Shamli district's Ragana village after an encounter and two rifles were seized from them which were looted recently from policemen, police said Monday.

A Delhi court on Monday granted bail to industrialist and Congress leader Naveen Jindal and 14 others, accused of money laundering in a case pertaining to irregularities in the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block.