Jesuit priest Stan Swamy, an accused in the Elgar Parishad case, has died, an official of a hospital where he was being treated informed the Bombay High Court on Monday.

A delegation of Trinamool Congress (TMC) MPs will meet President Ram Nath Kovind on Monday afternoon to seek the removal of Tushar Mehtra as the Solicitor General of India.

Three girls including two sisters drowned in a lake in Nirmal district while allegedly trying to take selfies, police said on Monday.

The Supreme Court on Monday termed as amazing and shocking that people are still being booked under the Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, which was scrapped by the apex court verdict in 2015.

 A day after RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat asserted that the DNA of all Indians is the same, senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Monday said if Bhagwat is true to his words, he must give directions that all those BJP leaders who "harassed" innocent Muslims be removed from their posts.

The health condition of tribal rights activist Stan Swamy, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, continues to be critical, his lawyer Mihir Desai said on Monday.

 India saw a single-day rise of 39,796 new Covid infections, which took the tally of cases to 3,05,85,229, while the death toll climbed to 4,02,728 with 723 more fatalities, the lowest in around 88 days, according to Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday.

 Taking a dig at the BJP over the leadership change in Uttarakhand, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday urged the saffron party to transfer Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath to the hill state.