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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a charge sheet against Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and others in Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court in connection with the excise policy case.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a charge sheet against Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and others in Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court in connection with the excise policy case.

The Quad has additional responsibilities of upholding a rules-based order and collaboration under the grouping can ensure that the Indo-Pacific remains free and secure, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Monday amid China’s increasing assertiveness in the region. In his opening remarks at a foreign ministerial conclave of Quad, Jaishankar said a clear message should be sent that the Quad is “here to stay, here to do and here to go.” “As political democracies, pluralistic societies and market economies, there is the key question of upholding a rules-based order,” Jaishankar said.

Two ‘kanwariyas’ died and 14 were injured after a truck hit a tractor-trolley in Morena in Madhya Pradesh on Monday, a police official said. The incident took place at 5am on National Highway number 44, some 10 kilometres from the district headquarters, which led to enraged villagers beating up the truck driver and also blocking the arterial road for some time, the official said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during the 112th episode of his monthly radio broadcast, ‘Mann Ki Baat,’ calls on people and organisations to use National Anti-Narcotics Helpline ‘Manas’ in India’s fight against drugs. During his monthly broadcast, PM Modi said, “In Mann ki Baat, I have often discussed the challenges of drugs. Every family worries that their child might be exposed to drugs. Now, to help such people, the government has launched the National Anti-Narcotics Helpline Manas.”

More than 1,800 pilgrims left a base camp in Jammu for the 3,880-metre-high Amarnath cave shrine in the south Kashmir Himalayas amid tight security arrangements on Monday, officials said. More than 4.55 lakh pilgrims have already paid obeisance at the naturally-formed ice lingam at the cave shrine, compared to the over 4.5 lakh last year.

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has started action against illegal coaching centres and will set up a high-level committee to probe the flooding of the basement of a coaching institute which led to three civil services aspirants’ deaths, an official said on Sunday. A team of the civic body reached the Old Rajinder Nagar area to seal several illegally-run basements of coaching centres, a statement by the Delhi government said.

A goods train derailed in Bhubaneswar in the early hours of Monday, the East Coast Railway (ECoR) said. The incident happened at 1.35 am in the railway yard at Mancheswar station, it said in a statement. There was no loss of life or damage to properties due to the derailment, it added.