Maldives Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid Monday alleged that former president Abdulla Yameen had tried to play India against China as a "puppet master" and said the new government was looking into the deals made with China to assess the debt accumulation.

The Mayor-designate of Kolkata Municipal Corporation, Firhad Hakim Monday urged his followers to donate money in the Mayor's relief fund rather than using it to buy congratulatory sweets and flowers for him.

The Congress on Monday hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi after he criticised the party on issues of terrorism and Naxalism, alleging he was playing politics on matters of national security and had "compromised" the country's interests.

Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy posted a controversial tweet Monday that the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack was "a slaughter of innocents (except Muslims)", later apologising and deleting it, saying it contained a "factual mistake".

Three people, who had arrived at a court complex here Monday for a hearing in a property dispute case, were attacked by an armed gang, the police said.

The Supreme Court on Monday pulled up the Karnataka government for "doing nothing and just fooling around" in the investigation of killing of noted scholar and rationalist M.M Kalburgi in 2015 at Dharwad.

As the RSS and the VHP upped the ante for the construction of Ram temple at Ayodhya, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday alleged that the BJP is "worshipper of (demon king) Ravana" and not Lord Ram.

Those conspiring to destroy the Constitution should know they neither have the capacity to do so nor will the Congress allow them to do anything, Congress president Rahul Gandhi said on Constitution Day Monday.