US President Donald Trump has signed a temporary funding bill ending a nearly three-day government shutdown, capping off deadlock and reinstating funds for a fortnight, a senior official said....
According to The New York Times, Senate Democrats helped advance a stopgap bill after Repunblicans' pledge to continue immigration talks. ...

Violence and arson erupted in parts of BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh and Haryana ahead of Thursday's release of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's controversial period drama "Padmaavat" as the Karni Sena, an extremist Rajput group, on Monday warned of "enormous outburst of people" if the movie was released....
Days after he and three other senior Supreme Court judges revolted against Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice J. Chelameswar on Monday declined to say if the unprecedented crisis hitting the top court was over....

The Supreme Court on Monday said the controversy surrounding the death of Special CBI court judge B.H. Loya is "serious" and it will look into the circumstances leading to his death in November 2014. ...

The Haryana Police on Monday registered a case and started an investigation into an attack on a portion of the Kessal Mall in Haryana's Kurukshetra town, around 100 km from here. The attack is being linked to the screening of the controversial film "Padmaavat"....
Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Congress said while Modi has stated he wants to "erase the Congress' culture" he does not want to get rid of the RSS' ideology of "divisiveness, vendetta and lynch mentality"....
An Indian Mujahideen operative, termed the "Bin Laden of India" and the allegedly mastermind of the 2008 Gujarat serial blasts that killed 56 persons was arrested here after a brief gunfight, Delhi Police said on Monday....
A Delhi court on Monday asked the ED to file a supplementary chargesheet in a case against LIC agent Anand Chauhan, who is accused of investing Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh's "tainted" money in LIC policies. Special Judge Santosh Snehi Mann asked the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to file the chargesheet as soon as...
Aam Aadmi Partys (AAP) disqualified MLAs on Monday withdrew from the Delhi High Court their plea seeking a stay on the Election Commission's recommendation to the President to disqualify 20 MLAs in an office of profit case....