Australia beat England by 251 runs to win the first Ashes Test at Edgbaston on Monday. 

The Union Territory (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir will have a Lt Governor and the strength of the Assembly will be 107, which will be further enhanced to 114 after a delimitation exercise is carried out.

Karnataka State Fire and Emergency Services has deployed more than  200 personnel, boats to undertake rescue operations in the flood areas in Belagavi, Bagalkot, Raichur and Yadgiri Districts in the State and as many as 50 members of the State Disaster Response Force from the Belagavi and Kalaburagi  Region besides boats and water tenders.

Rajya Sabha on Monday approved a resolution abrogating Article 370 for Jammu and Kashmir and a bill to bifurcate the state into two union territories with Home Minister Amit Shah saying the controversial provisions were responsible for poverty and lack of development in the state.

The Centre's decision to abrogate Article 370, which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, polarised opinion among legal experts on Monday with one section saying it is a legal, historic step and another of the view that it is a complicated move fraught with serious political consequences. 

Mangaluru: Mangaluru City North MLA Bharath Shetty welcomed the move of Central government to abolish article 370 and 35A from Kashmir and added that it was a tribute to the sacrifice of BJP’s founder Shyama Prasad Mukherjee.

Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday moved a resolution in the Lok Sabha for bringing a bill to reorganise the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.

The Rajasthan legislative assembly on Monday passed a bill providing for life imprisonment and a fine up to Rs 5 lakh to convicts in cases of mob lynching involving the victim's death.