Highlights: Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, aide Arpita Mukherjee will be in ED custody till Aug 3

Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee and his aide Arpita Mukherjee have been sent to the Enforcement Directorate custody till August 3, a court said on Monday night.

With Bhagwant Mann by his side, Arvind Kejriwal on Monday sharply criticised the central government’s latest Goods and Services Tax move, saying: “This is what the British used to do.” Read More

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has busted a racket of imposters and arrested four people for allegedly attempting to cheat certain people by assuring them Rajya Sabha births for ₹100 crore, people familiar with the development said. Read More

Former minister and BJP vice president Sham Lal Sharma's vehicle collided with a truck coming in the opposite direction at Akhnoor, poonch road. Four injured including PA, former minister Sham Lal safe.

Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, who was arrested on Saturday over alleged fraud in school recruitments, does not need hospitalisation, AIIMS Bhubaneswar said on Monday, a day after the High Court ordered that he should be shifted to the Odisha hospital for a check-up. Read More

Partha Chatterjee was arrested last week in school jobs case. Read More

Four Congress MPs suspended on 6th day of monsoon session from Lok Sabha amid protests by opposition, reports news agency ANI.

The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena moved a fresh petition in the Supreme Court on Monday seeking a halt on proceedings before the Election Commission regarding recognition of the real Shiv Sena. Read More

SC allows Congress' Surjewala to move Delhi HC on plea challenging linking of Aadhaar, voter ID

Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta has tested positive for Covid-19 and has mild symptoms. Read more

Actor Katrina Kaif and Vicky Kaushal received threats to their lives from an unidentified person on social media. The Mumbai Police has also informed that a case has been registered against the person. Read more

Congress MP Manickam Tagore gives adjournment motion notice in Lok Sabha, to discuss 5% GST on pre-packed and pre-labelled food grains, curd, butter milk etc.

Droupadi Murmu takes oath as 15th President of India

ED is conducting a raid at MM CSI Church, Thiruvananthapuram. Raid is related to a scam case of Karakonam medical college where allegations of collecting huge amounts of money on pretext of offering admission to medical college were levelled, ANI reported.

At least eight people died and 20 others were injured after a stationary double-decker bus on the roadside was hit by a speeding double-decker bus on the Purvanchal Expressway in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, early on Monday. Read more

India reports 16,866 fresh Covid cases, 41 deaths in 24 hours

Officials of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) reached the state-run SSKM Hospital in Kolkata early on Monday where Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, arrested in connection with the school jobs scam, is admitted. Read more

Gujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh are likely to receive intense rainfall over the next two days, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has said, adding that downpours in north India are expected to resume after July 28. Read more

President-elect Droupadi Murmu, who hails from the tribal community, will take oath as the 15th President of India on Monday. The ceremony of the assumption of office will take place in the Central Hall of Parliament. Read more