Former IPL chief Lalit Modi's lawyer Mehmood M. Abdi has lodged a complaint about receiving death threats from mafia don Ravi Pujari, a police officer said on Monday....

The central government on Monday strongly opposed 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts convict Yakub Memon's plea challenging the death warrant issued against him and seeking stay of his execution -- slated for July 30 -- saying that he has exhausted all the legal and administrative remedies....
Congress parliamentarian from Ludhiana, Ravneet Singh Bittu, said on Monday that the terrorist attack in Punjab's Gurdaspur district was an attempt to revive the Khalistan movement in the state and urged the Punjab and central governments to immediately take necessary steps to stop it....

After nearly 11 hours, the terrorist attack on Punjab's Dinanagar town came to an end on Monday evening, police sources said....

The information and broadcasting ministry on Monday asked TV channels not to show live coverage of the ongoing anti-terrorism operations in Dinanagar town of Gurdaspur district in Punjab and said some channels carried such telecasts in violation of rules....
No one has been taken hostage in the militant attack at Punjab's Dinanagar town, said union minister Kirren Rijiju on Monday. ...
Security forces have been instructed to step up vigil at the India, Pakistan border following the attack in Punjab's Gurdaspur district, said Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday....
A special court here on Monday sentenced former union minister P.K. Thungon to four-and-a-half years in jail in a 1998 corruption case. ...

Security was beefed up in Haryana on Monday in the wake of a terror attack in Punjab's Gurdaspur district, a police official said. ...
The terror attack in Punjab is a result of intelligence failure, Congress leader Anand Sharma said on Monday. ...