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“We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience,” Facebook said on Monday. 

"We’re aware that some people are experiencing issues with WhatsApp at the moment. We’re working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible," WhatsApp said on Monday.

WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook is currently down for users. 

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday arrested Unitech founder Ramesh Chandra, his daughter-in-law Preeti in money laundering probe.

As the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Rajasthan alleged that test paper of the Rajasthan Eligibility Examination for Teachers (REET) was leaked before the exam took place, and flagged other irregularities during the exam, chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday dismissed the allegation by saying the Congress-led state government managed the entire process of REET very well. Read more

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Monday slammed Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) chief Mayawati and Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav over the Lakhimpuri Kheri incident. Speaking to Hindustan Times, Gandhi said that it is only the Congress party which has raised issues in Uttar Pradesh. 

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) said on Monday that cases related to the Pandora papers will be investigated.

Kerala on Monday recorded 8,850 new cases and 149 more deaths due to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), taking the caseload and death toll to 4,729,083 and 25,526 respectively. The number of people who recovered from the infection since Sunday was 17,007, which brought the total recoveries to 4,574,206 and the number of active cases to 128,736.

Actor Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan, Arbaaz Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha have been sent to the custody of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) till October 7 in connection with their involvement in the cruise ship rave party case. 

Former MP and Jan Adhikar Party president Rajiv Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav has been acquitted in a 32-year-old kidnapping case. 

Chief minister Uddhav Thackeray said schools were reopened in Maharashtra from Monday after a lot of deliberations with a determination that they will not be shut again. Read more

Aryan Khan also said that the NCB interrogate him for the last 48 hours in connection with the cruise ship rave party case but found nothing. “I am a twenty-four-year-old-boy with no criminal antecedents. I have co-operated with them so any prayer for further custody should be rejected,” Khan said. 

Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan, who has been produced before a magistrate court in Mumbai for bail in connection with cruise ship rave party case, said on Monday that he was invited as a guest in the party nothing was found in his bag during the search by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB). 

Coronavirus disease restrictions in Uttarakhand, which were in place till October 5 (Tuesday), have now been further extended till October 19. 

As Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan, Arbaaz Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha were produced before a magistrate court in Mumbai in connection with their involvement in the cruise ship rave party case, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has sought custody of the trio till October 13. 

Hours after a blast killed several people outside a mosque in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Sunday, the Taliban destroyed an Islamic State cell in Kabul, according to news agency AFP on Monday. Read more

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Monday afternoon brought Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan, Arbaaz Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha to the Esplanade Court in Mumbai. All three were remanded to NCB custody in connection with the Mumbai cruise ship rave party case.

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian “for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.”

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to accept the demands of the farmers and repeal the three new farm laws enacted by the Centre. 

Hours after Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav was taken into custody after he staged a sit-in outside his house for being stopped from going to Lakhimpur Kheri, the police on Monday afternoon released him. 

Supreme Court dismisses a plea seeking cancellation of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test undergraduate exam (NEET-UG), held on September 12, 2021, due to alleged paper leak and malpractices.

Supreme Court dismisses Supertech's application to save one of the two 40-storey towers in its Emerald Court project in Noida, that were ordered to be razed over grave illegalities.

Foreign minister Harsh Vardhan Shringla meets Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa in Colombo.

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal releases a 10-point winter action plan for the city ahead of the pollution season.

Supreme Court approves ₹50,000 ex-gratia payment for Covid-19 deaths and directs that even those people who suffered from the illness and die by suicide within a month of testing positive will be entitled to get compensation to be paid from State Disaster Response Fund.

Air New Zealand announces international travelers should be vaccinated against Covid-19 when flying with the carrier starting from February 1 next year.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays tribute to freedom fighter Shyamji Krishna Verma on the latter's 164th birth anniversary.

Japanese lawmakers vote for Fumio Kishida as the island's new prime minister after incumbent Yoshihide Suga resigned last month.

Andaman and Nicobar Islands reported one new Covid-19 case in the last 24 hours, pushing the tally in the union territory to 7,623, a health department official said.

“Due to closure of national highways NH9 and NH24 by Ghaziabad Traffic Police, traffic diversion is being continued,” tweets Delhi Traffic Police.

India's daily Covid-19 tally falls to 20,799 as cumulative cases mount to 33,834,702. New recoveries at 26,718 while toll rises by 180 deaths.

574,252,400 samples tested for Covid-19 till October 3, 2021, including 991,676 on Sunday: Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)

Lakhimpur Police file FIR in connection with Sunday's violence in which eight people, including four farmers were killed. Union minister Ajay Mishra's son Ashish and his aides named.

Uttar Pradesh additional chief secretary Awanish Awasthi instructs Lucknow airport not to allow Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel and Punjab deputy CM Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa to land at the airport.

Germany logs 3088 fresh Covid-19 infections and seven deaths. Tally mounts to 4,255,388 including 93,793 deaths.

UP Police put SP chief Akhilesh Yadav under house arrest in Lucknow as he was scheduled to leave for Lakhimpur Kheri to meet families of farmers allegedly run over by car of Union minister Ajay Mishra's son.

Australia reported 2029 new Covid-19 cases on Monday, including 1377 from its second-most populous province of Victoria.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra arrested by UP Police from Hargaon while on way to meet families of farmers killed in Lakhimpur Kheri, claims Youth Congress president BV Srinivas.

North Korea and South Korea restore cross-border hotline, reports AFP quoting officials in Seoul.