Prime Minister Narendra Modi condoled the deaths in the stampede that took place in Jharkhand on Monday, killing at least 11 people. ...

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi failed to comply with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's request to take back his "DNA" remark, the Janata Dal-United leader on Monday announced he would launch a 'Shabdwapsi' drive to protest the remark. ...
A young man was shot after he opened fire at the police in the US state of Missouri during protests marking the first death anniversary of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black man who was fatally shot last August by a white police officer, the media reported on Monday. ...
Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Monday held a meeting with representatives of all political parties in the Lok Sabha to find a way out of the logjam in the lower house. ...
The government on Monday told the Supreme Court that it wanted to ban child pornography websites, but expressed its inability to go beyond that and don the role of moral police....
Opposition, led by the Congress, disrupted the Lok Sabha yet again on Monday, forcing the speaker to adjourn the house till noon. ...

At least 11 people were killed and 50 injured in a stampede at a temple in Jharkhand's Deoghar town early Monday, police said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was "pained at loss of lives"....
Two guerrillas were killed late on Sunday near the line of control (LoC) in Kupwara district of North Kashmir where a soldier had also been killed on Saturday....

Commemorations will be held in Japan's Nagasaki city on Sunday to mark the 70th year of US atomic bombing on the city, killing at least 70,000 people. ...
Top leaders of the CPI-M and the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana (SNDP) Yogam, a powerful social group of the Hindu Ezhava community in Kerala, exchanged barbs on Sunday about the SNDP general secretary meeting BJP chief Amit Shah....