Breaking news highlights: West Bengal reports 374 new Covid cases, 1 more death

West Bengal on Sunday recorded 374 new Covid cases on Sunday which took the tally to 21,13,246, a health department bulletin said. The death toll rose to 21,496 as one more person succumbed to Covid, the bulletin added.

A group of Congress MLAs loyal to chief minister Ashok Gehlot submitted their resignations to Assembly speaker CP Joshi late Sunday ahead of a crucial legislature party meeting that is scheduled to take place to pick his likely successor. Read more

Amid the ongoing Rajasthan Congress crisis, Congress KC Venugopal said on Sunday that things will be sorted out soon. 

Congress MLAs loyal to chief minister Ashok Gehlot headed to the assembly Speaker CP Joshi's residence to submit their resignation ahead of a legislature party (CLP) meeting which was likely to pick his successor. Read more

Rajasthan MLA Pratap Singh Khachariyawas said all the MLAs are angry CM Gehlot's decision & are resigning. He said MLA's should have been consulted before taking the decision of resignation of CM, according to ANI reports.

Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi has reportedly declined an offer from the Narendra Modi-led central government to return as India's attorney general. Read more

Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge, Ajay Maken, and Sachin Pilot arrive at the residence of CM Ashok Gehlot ahead of the CLP meeting, according to news agency ANI reports.

Congress leader Sachin Pilot leaves for Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's residence for Congress Legislature Party meeting(CLP) where the issue of a probable leadership change in the state will take place.

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar says he and RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav held talks with Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi. According to agencies' reports, they said they have to unite together and work for country's progress, and they will meet Sonia once again after their party's president elections.

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami chairs a high-level meeting at Dehradun Secretariat regarding law and order and security in the state. According to news agency ANI reports, top police officers including Chief Secretary and DGP of the state are present in the meeting.

Rasthriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar arrives at the residence of Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi.

Mortals remains of Ankita Bhandari being taken to NIT ghat from mortuary in Srinagar, Pauri Garwhal for the last rites.

The Delhi flood control room issued a warning on Sunday stating that the Yamuna river's water level could rise to ‘danger level’ at the Old Railway Bridge in the national capital in the next few hours. Read more

The father of Uttarakhand's teen who was murdered in Rishikesh arrived at mortuary in Srinagar in Pauri Garwhal district to take her body for last rites and a situation of massive protest by the locals was created at mortuary.

Tamil Nadu state's south zone Inspector General Asra Garg on Sunday said, 20,000 police personnel have been deployed in the southern districts of the state and night patrolling has been intensified amid the on-going petrol bomb attacks. He further said arrests have been done from Dindigal district and security has been tightened at important places, according to news agency ANI.

President Droupadi Murmu on three-day visit to Karnataka from Monday, her first to any state after assuming office, reports PTI

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Saturday said that a Special Investigation Team has been formed to investigate the receptionist murder case. According to the news agency ANI reports, Dhami said that government has taken a resolution to punish the culprits and the team is ready examine every angle in it.

Senior Congress leader & MP Shashi Tharoor to file nomination for the post of party President on Sept 30, sources confirmed according to news agency ANI. Tharoor will at least need 50 delegates as proposers for his candidature.

NCP chief Sharad Pawar, JD(U) leader & Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, RJD leader & Bihar Dy CM Tejashwi Yadav, SAD's SS Badal & CPIM's S.Yechury attend the event to mark 109th birth anniversary celebrations of India's ex- Deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal in Fatehabad in Haryana, on invitation of Indian National Lok Dal's OP Chautala

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Sunday said over 20 Bangladeshi nationals running illegal businessses in parts of Goa arrested. All of these individuals, he claimed, had not provided any documentation to support their right to remain in India and would soon depart for Bangladesh. Sawant added that the state's home minister is looking into it and that searches for further such individuals are ongoing.

Haryana's Civil Aviation Minister Dushyant Chautala & I mutually sent a letter to Aviation Ministry to name Mohali-Chandigarh airport after Shaheed Bhagat Singh before his birthday on Sept 28. PM Modi, on 'Mann Ki Baat', declared the renaming, I thank him: Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann

A huge crowd of protestors demand justice, blocking the Badrinath-Rishikesh highway in front of the mortuary near the base hospital where Uttarakhand teen victim's body was taken to.

INLD to hold a rally in Fatehabad to mark the birth anniversary of Devi Lal. Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and others are expected to attend the rally.

PM Narendra Modi is addressing the nation on his monthly radio programme Mann Ki Baat. This is the 93rd episode of the show, the first edition of which was broadcast on October 3, 2014.

Punjab governor summons assembly session at 11am on September 27 after Bhagwant Mann govt blinks, gives details.