The joint committee looking into the land acquisition bill has decided to seek an extension and will now table the report in winter session of parliament, sources said on Monday....

Congress attacks PM over Lalit Modi link; parliament logjam continues Finance Minister Arun Jaitley hit back at the Congress, blaming party leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi for the-three week stalemate in parliament....
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said she will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 12 and demand central funds of Rs.30,000 crore for post-flood reconstruction work in the state....
Tennis star Sania Mirza was on Monday fined for violation of traffic rules....
The Supreme Court on Monday permitted changing of the worn-out material of the make-shift structure covering the Ram temple at the disputed Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi site in Ayodhya....
Union minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy on Monday accused the Congress of using brutal force to stall parliament and said it did not want the house to function. ...

Malaysian authorities on Monday said it is sending a team of experts to the Maldives to investigate reports that debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have been discovered on the island nation....
Kochi on Monday become the first city in India to be enrolled as a member of Beijing-based World Tourism Cities Federation (WTCF) Council. ...

The Samajwadi Party on Monday assured Speaker Sumitra Mahajan that it would not join the protests led by the Congress in the Lok Sabha....
Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh will launch the party's 'Parivartan Yatra' on August 12 from Sonepur ahead of the coming Bihar assembly polls, a party leader said on Monday....