BREAKING highlights: Suspected blast at Punjab Police intel headquarters in Mohali; probe on

Update: 54 detonators with a very low explosive content have been found in the bag: Amitesh Kumar, Commissioner of Police, Nagpur City.

A bag containing suspicious items has been found at Nagpur railway station. Railway Protection Force (RPF) and BDDS (Bomb Detection and Disposal Squads) teams are investigating it, news agency ANI reported quoting RPF Official Ashutosh Pandey.

Punjab ex-CM Amarinder Singh took to Twitter to condemn the “brazen attack on police forces” and urged the CM Bhagwant Mann to take action. He wrote: “Shocked to hear about the blast at the @PunjabPoliceInd Intelligence headquarter in Mohali. Thankfully nobody was hurt. This brazen attack on our police force is deeply concerning and I urge CM @BhagwantMann to ensure perpetrators are brought to justice at the earliest (sic.)”

DGP VK Bhawra told Hindustan Times that around 8pm “something was fired from a distance at the intelligence office” in Mohali, and it has hit an office table. “Police is probing the matter,” he added. Read more.

Delhi's single-day Covid tally declines to 799 on Monday from 1,422 the preceding day, according to health bulletin data. Positivity rate recorded at 4.94%, down from Sunday's 5.34%.

The death toll in clashes in Sri Lanka has risen to five, AFP reported citing the police. This number includes that of a ruling party MP as well.

A level-2 fire has been reported at the 14th floor of a 21-storeyed building in Mumbai near Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan's bungalow ‘Mannat’ in Bandra (west). The incident was reported around 7.46pm on Monday and operations are currently underway to put off the flames. As many as eight fire engines and seven jumbo tankers are at the spot. No casualty has been reported so far. Read more.

We don't believe in misusing the laws or any provisions of the law, Union law minister Kiren Rijiju said on Monday while talking about Centre's decision to reconsider sedition law.

India's largest-ever initial public offering (IPO), by Life Insurance Corp (LIC), was oversubscribed 2.95 times as six days of bidding came to an end on Monday, according to a stock exchange filing, Reuters reported.

The house of Government MP Sanath Nishantha who led a mob to attack Galle Face protesters completely destroyed.

Directorate General of Civil Aviation(DGCA) has formed a 3-member team for 'fact-finding enquiry' into a specially-abled child who was barred from boarding IndiGO flight in Ranchi, PTI reported.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has taken underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's close aide Guddu Pathan into custody amid raids at multiple locations across Mumbai.

The Congress Working Committee (CWC), the highest decision-making body of the Grand Old Party met in the AICC headquarters in the capital to work out the modalities and agenda of its brainstorming session to be held in Rajasthan's Udaipur from May 13 to 15. Read more

A Ruling party MP was killed on Monday in Srilanka Lanka clashes, AFP reported. 

Bulldozers of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi will be running tomorrow as well. Illegal encroachments will be removed in New Friends Colony from 11am tomorrow, Rajpal, Chairman standing committee, SDMC central zone was quoted as saying by ANI.

The rupee extended its losses and slumped 60 paise to close at a record low of 77.50 (provisional) against the US dollar on Monday, pressured by the strength of the American currency overseas and unabated foreign fund outflows, PTI reported.

Sri Lanka Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has resigned amid protests over economic crisis.

 Due to overturning of cement mixer at Mumbra Bypass on Panvel-Thane road, the entire road has been closed for traffic. Police inspectors and staff of Mumbra Traffic Department are trying to undo the traffic.

The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court in an affidavit that it “has decided to re-examine & reconsider the provisions of Section 124A IPC (sedition)".

Barjinder Singh Parwana, the mastermind behind the recent violence in Patiala, has been sent to 14- day judicial custody, news agency ANI reported.

Supreme Court has declined to entertain pleas against the anti-encroachment drive in Delhi's Shaheen Bagh, and has asked the petitioners to approach high court. 

A Mumbai court on Monday issued notice to independent MP Navneet Rana and her husband Ravi Rana seeking their say on why a non-bailable warrant should not be issued against them. The court notice was issued on charges of alleged violation of the bail conditions by the lawmaker couple. Read more

Sri Lankan Police imposed an indefinite curfew in Colombo on Monday after government supporters clashed with demonstrators demanding the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Read more

Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Monday filed his nomination papers for the Champawat assembly by-poll.

Supreme Court agrees to hear today at 2pm, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) plea against the demolition of buildings in the South Delhi's Shaheen Bagh area, reported ANI.