Life across the Kashmir Valley was derailed on Monday by a separatist-sponsored shutdown even as the authorities detained senior separatist leaders to prevent their participation in protests.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone for the proposed All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Madurai, Tamil Nadu BJP President Tamilisai Soundararajan said on Monday.

The BJP on Monday accused the Congress of playing politics over the term Hindu, saying it symbolised its ignorance.

Union Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday compared former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who imposed Emergency, to Hitler, stating that both used the Constitution "to transform democracy into dictatorship".

Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Monday asked the people to be responsible with the use of plastic.

"Now that the new market has been inaugurated, I want to underline that it is our responsibility to keep it clean. We should stop throwing plastic bags everywhere," Parrikar said in a video, a day after a new fish market was opened in south Goa's Margao area.

Referring to suicides in Maharashtra by farmers and others, the Shiv Sena on Monday pointedly asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi: "Is this your promised 'Achhe Din'?"

Four persons were killed and three injured in an explosion on Monday in a junk shop in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district, police said.

The monsoon session of Parliament will be held from July 18 to August 10, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar said here on Monday.