Minister of State for External Affairs V.K. Singh on Monday said that Pakistan is still virtually being ruled by its Army as new Prime Minister Imran Khan has been propped up by it.

The Madras High Court on Monday suo moto initiated contempt proceedings against BJP National Secretary H. Raja over his alleged derogatory remarks against the judiciary.

Even as the ruling BJP-led coalition alliance looks for a new leader to replace ailing Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, Congress MLAs on Monday staked claim to form a government in Goa.

Senior cabinet minister Ananth Kumar, 59, has taken seriously ill and is undergoing treatment abroad. Kumar is one of the few ministers in the Narendra Modi government to have served in the earlier BJP-led NDA government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and currently holds the parliamentary affairs and chemicals & fertilisers portfolio.

The Supreme Court on Monday asked social activist Swami Agnivesh to approach the High Court for a probe by the CBI or the NIA into attacks on him in Jharkhand and Delhi.

Launching two smart fencing pilot projects along the international border with Pakistan, Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday expressed the hope that there will be a change in the attitude of the new government in Islamabad towards India.

A question by a Rajya Sabha TV anchor to a studio guest about the 1942 undertaking Atal Bihari Vajpayee gave that he would not participate in any anti-British movement so angered Vice President Venkaiah Naidu that the channel was forced to run an apology while the anchor herself was issued a reprimand and taken off air.

Factors like the declining population in the 19-25 age-group and stagnant wages in the Gulf countries could be responsible for migration from Kerala declining 11 per cent between 2013 and 2018, a new study says.