Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here on Monday for routine check-up on the advice of doctors, a hospital official said.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to do positive politics as people do not appreciate of negative politics.

Panic gripped the guards and occupants at the official residence of the District Magistrate of Shopian in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday when miscreants hurled a toy grenade.

Three tourists from Maharashtra, including a policeman, drowned at Goa's Calangute beach on Monday morning while two others are missing, police said.

Former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Monday said the BJP government's "administrative incompetence" and "policy blunders" were responsible for the rising farm distress, unemployment and failure of economy.

A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker and four members of his family were killed as they slept in their home here on Monday morning, police said.

Congress leader Manish Tewari on Monday took a jibe at the current crop of National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Ministers for holding press conferences for each other's ministries, saying "no minister talks about own ministry affairs, collective responsibility redefined".

Seven students were killed and two others critically injured on Monday after they run over by a bus in Uttar Pradesh's Kannauj district, police said.