Highlights: Tesla directors agree to return the carmaker value of 3.1mn stock options

Tesla Inc's directors agreed to settle a shareholder lawsuit challenging their compensation by returning to the company the value of 3.1 million stock options, worth $735 million, according to a Monday filing in a Delaware court, Reuters reported.

The Madhya Pradesh government will set up 9,000 'CM Rise' schools to provide quality education, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said in Shajapur district on Monday, PTI reported.

He inaugurated a CM Rise School in Gulana village and announced that it would be named after legendary jurist and social reformer Babasaheb Ambedkar.

A pod of 55 pilot whales have died after they were found washed ashore on a beach in Scotland in the worst mass whale stranding in the area, marine experts said Monday, AP reported.

Marine rescuers, the coast guard and police were called to Traigh Mhor beach on the Isle of Lewis in northwest Scotland after receiving reports that dozens of the mammals were in difficulty there early Sunday.

The British Divers Marine Life Rescue found that only 15 of the whales — a mixture of adults and calves — were still alive, and attempted to refloat two of the more active animals that were low down in the water.

But by Sunday afternoon rescue teams decided that the remaining whales should be euthanised on welfare grounds, after considering the shallow beach, rough wave conditions and how long the whales had been out of the water.

A middle-aged woman died in Assam's Sonitpur after forest officials allegedly fired on her. Five others in that area also sustained bullet injuries, according to the police.

The incident happened at an evicted land in Bura Chapori Wildlife Sanctuary in Sonitpur on Sunday night. Police said that some forest officials are also injured.

NCP State Chief Jayant Patil clarifies that Sharad Pawar's stance remains unchanged, dismissing speculations about reconciliation with Ajit Pawar's faction. Patil emphasised that there is no reason to doubt Pawar's position.

While Sharad Pawar opted to skip the opposition meeting in Bengaluru today, he will be attending the meeting tomorrow, Patil said.

Russia ended the Ukraine grain-export deal nearly a year into the agreement, heightening uncertainty over global food supplies and escalating tensions in the region, Bloomberg reported.

Moscow had repeatedly threatened to leave the pact, citing obstacles to its own exports. It last agreed to a two-month extension in May, which ends Monday. The corridor’s shutdown will hit key buyers like China, Spain and Egypt.

“Unfortunately, the part concerning Russia in this Black Sea agreement has not been fulfilled so far,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, according to Russian news agency Tass. “Therefore, it is terminated.” 

A 17-year-old Aditya Pawar, a resident of Lokmanya Nagar area of Maharashtra's ​​Thane, drowned in the lake while going for a swim in Upvan Lake.

Germany's Interior Ministry wants to introduce measures aimed at protecting the country's critical infrastructure, according to a draft plan seen by Reuters on Monday, amid concern over foreign influence in certain areas of the economy.

The draft, which has been submitted to other government ministries for consultation, calls for establishing consistent regulation across Germany's 16 states to protect strategically important infrastructure in various sectors.

UP ATS takes Pakistani national Seema Haider and her Indian lover Sachin in custody from Gautam Budh Nagar to quiz them further. Seema entered India illegally and has been living in a house in Noida with Sachin.

Chirag Paswan, who leads his faction of the LJP, arrives at Union home minister and BJP leader Amit Shah's residence in Delhi, day before meeting of the BJP-led NDA and former alliance members.

A five-story apartment building collapsed Monday in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, leaving at least nine people dead, authorities said to news agency AP.

Indian Army and Jammu and Kashmir Police foiled a major infiltration bid on the night of July 16-17 in Krishna Ghati Sector in Poonch district. Major war-like stores recovered, include one AK-74 rifle with magazine, 11 rounds and other stores for sustenance.

Officers on Sunday shot and killed a man wanted in four weekend killings near Atlanta during an exchange of gunfire, with a sheriff's deputy and two police officers wounded in the incident, AP reported.

The Supreme Court will hear Delhi govt's petition challenging ordinance on Thursday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to virtually inaugurate the new integrated terminal building at Veer Savarkar International Airport in Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands tomorrow. See pics 

Union Home Minister Amit Shah chairs Regional Conference on ‘Drugs Trafficking and National Security’ in New Delhi; over 1,44,000 kilograms of drugs being destroyed in various parts of the country by NCB, in coordination with ANTFs of all states.

Ukraine said on Monday its forces had retaken several square kilometres of territory around the eastern city of Bakhmut, which Russian forces seized in May.

Kyiv last month began its highly anticipated fightback against entrenched Russian troops after stockpiling Western weapons and building up its offensive forces.

The first day of the monsoon session at Vidhan Bhavan in Mumbai witnessed a fiery start as opposition party Members of Legislative Assembly (MLA's) and Members of Legislative Council (MLC's) staged a protest.

At least one person was killed and three others injured in a cloud burst that occurred near Kayas village in Kullu district around 4am on Monday, the administration said.

"An incident of cloud burst has occurred near village Kayas, (Raysan) Tehsil & District Kullu. In this incident one person died on the spot and three persons got injuries," District Emergency Operation Centre (DEOC), Kullu, said in a statement, adding the victims were washed away in a vehicle.

Two teenage friends on a fun trip drowned in a waterfall, while six other friends had a close shave in Jharkhand's Latehar district, police said on Monday.

The incident happened at Sugga Bandh, a famous waterfall of the district, around 4 pm on Sunday after eight friends from neighbouring Palamu district visited the place.

Two people died and their daughter was injured on the Crimea Bridge early on Monday, Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of the Belgorod region in southern Russia said.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday conducted searches at Tamil Nadu Higher Education Minister Ponmudi's residences, the officials said.

The 15th batch of more than 6,200 Amarnath pilgrims left the Bhagwati Nagar base camp here early on Monday morning amid tight security, officials said.

As many as 2,29,221 devotees have paid obeisance at the Amarnath shrine since the annual pilgrimage began on July 1.

A fire broke out in a coach of Vande Bharat Express train going from Bhopal to Delhi's Hazrat Nizamuddin Terminal at Kurwai Kethora railway station in Madhya Pradesh earlier on Monday. However, no injury was reported in the incident.

Army on Monday foiled an infiltration bid along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, a defence spokesperson said.

The infiltration bid was foiled in the joint operation which is still underway, he said.