India

Two events to condole a former Prime Minister and commemorate another at different venues were bound together by thinly veiled lessons to their successor on how to be a model Prime Minister.

Britain has confirmed fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi's presence in its territory, a CBI officer said on Monday.

A Kerala fisherman who got down on all fours to act as a footboard so a group of women could board a rescue boat has turned a social media hero for his spontaneous gesture.

The Centre declared the Kerala floods a "calamity of a severe nature" rather than a "national disaster" on a day Kerala's chief minister underscored the magnitude of the deluge by comparing the reconstruction challenge to a five-year plan.

A hypermarket in Oman has fired a man from Kerala for making an insensitive comment on Facebook about relief items for flood-affected people living in relief camps.

A 19-year-old labourer's son who cleared Class XII and had set aside some money for higher studies committed suicide on Sunday, heartbroken at finding his school certificates destroyed in the devastation caused by the Kerala monsoon.

The CBI is likely to take custody of Sharad Kalaskar, who has turned a suspect in the murder of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar since his arrest by the Maharashtra anti-terrorism squad in a terror plot case a fortnight ago.

The Supreme Court on Monday gave the central government and all states and Union territories two weeks to comply with its directives on tackling self-styled vigilantes, especially those who claim to be cow protectors and take the law into their own hands.

The special cell of Delhi police has arrested two Haryana-based cow vigilantes who claimed to have attacked activist Umar Khalid last week.

The Indian Institutes of Technology on Monday made a push to admit more foreign students and recruit foreign teachers to permanent posts, the idea being to try and improve the tech schools' international rankings.