Highlights: FlyDubai aircraft catches fire after taking off from Kathmandu airport

With tempretures cooling down, schools in West Bengal resumed in-person classes Monday, after closure of the campuses for one week due to extreme heat wave conditions.

India witnessed an 85.1-per cent decline in malaria cases and an 83.36-per cent decline in deaths caused by the disease from 2015 to 2022, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Monday, reports PTI.

Fly Dubai aircraft catches fire after taking off from Kathmandu airport, trying to make landing, reports ANI.

Delhi reports dip in Covid-19 cases with 689 new infections; 3 deaths reported

Bihar’s law department on Monday issued the notification for the release of 27 prisoners, including former MP Anand Mohan Singh, whose son Chetan Anand, MLA, is set to get married on May 3 in Dehradun.

In the light of the Bihar state sentence remission council meeting on April 20, 2023, the decision was taken for the release of prisoners having served actual sentence of 14 years or sentence of 20 years with remission,” says the notification. Singh’s name is on the 11th place.

The Congress on Monday accused the Narendra Modi government of "continuously attacking" the basic structure of the Constitution, which the Supreme Court said could not be altered in its landmark Kesavananda Bharati verdict delivered on this day 50 years ago.

"Today marks the 50th anniversary of the landmark judgment of the Supreme Court in the Kesavananda Bharati case, which laid down the 'Basic Structure' doctrine of our Constitution. The Modi government is no doubt continuously attacking that basic structure in every way," AICC general secretary Jairam Ramesh said in a tweet in Hindi.

Pakistani-Canadian columnist Tarek Fatah passed away on Monday after a prolonged battle with Cancer, his daughter Natasha Fatah, who herself is a journalist, shared the news.

Sports Authority of India (SAI) representatives visit Jantar Mantar to hold talks with wrestlers who have been protesting against WFI chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.

IMD's Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) has predicted heavy rains for the next 2 days in 11 districts of Tamil Nadu and a 'Yellow' alert has also been issued.

The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) on Monday said it will hold its Executive Council meeting on Thursday to look for "actionable solutions" to end the current impasse in the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), PTI reported.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will virtually attend on April 27 an event to mark the completion of 20 years of a citizens' grievances redressal programme in Gujarat that he had launched as the state's chief minister in 2003, PTI reported.

Former Punjab CM & Akali Dal leader S Parkash Singh Badal continues to be under close observation in the Medical ICU, says Fortis Hospital Mohali, ANI reported.

Three workers were killed while three others were injured in a fire that broke out at Kataria Agro Private Limited, Hingna MIDC in Maharashtra's Nagpur on Monday, officials said, ANI reported.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a rousing welcome after he arrived here on Monday with thousands of people, including BJP workers and supporters, lining up on both sides of the nearly two-kilometre long route of his road show from the INS Garuda naval air station to the venue of a youth programme.

A yacht carrying three Russians and two Egyptians reportedly went missing days ago off the coast of Yemen in the Red Sea. Its owner alleged on Monday that armed pirates took the vessel, reported AP.

Global military spending grew for the eighth consecutive year in 2022 to an all-time high of $2.24 trillion, with a sharp rise in Europe, chiefly due to Russian and Ukrainian expenditure, a Swedish think tank said Monday, reported AP.

India's tax authority has sent Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance and ICICI Prudential Life Insurance show-cause notices for evading taxes since 2017, as part of a probe spanning 16 insurers and about $610 million in unpaid dues, three sources said, reported Reuters.

Three men have been arrested in South Africa for stealing a 2.5-metre (8-feet) long Nile crocodile worth about USD 1,300 from a farm in the North West province, police said Monday, reported AP.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday asserted that law and order in the state has improved under his government, and the state was now being identified by its grand festivals and not for the mafia, PTI reported.

China has evacuated the first group of its citizens from Sudan, Beijing's foreign ministry said Monday, amid heavy fighting in the African nation, AFP reported.

Army and paramilitary forces have clashed across Sudan since April 15, killing hundreds and causing acute shortages of water, food, medicines and fuel.

Indian Army contingent will participate in the 7th edition of the bilateral training exercise 'Ajeya Warrior 2023'. The Exercise between the armies of the UK & India aims to enhance interoperability while undertaking operations under UN mandate.

A court in Maharashtra's Thane district has granted bail to a man arrested for allegedly threatening assistant municipal commissioner Mahesh Aher of the Thane Municipal Corporation, reported PTI.

NIA attaches the Srinagar property of Syed Ahmad Shakeel under the UAPA. Shakeel is the son of Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejashwi Yadav arrived here on Monday afternoon to meet West Bengal CM, Mamata Banerjee. After landing at the airport, Kumar and Yadav went to the state secretariat 'Nabanna' where the duo will be holding a meeting with Banerjee.

Australia on Monday released the public version of the Defence Strategic Review (DSR) that has proposed a strategy of greater self-sufficiency combined with stronger relationships with its allies and key powers in the region, including Japan and India.