News brief: Big stories of the day

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has written to Imran Khan, the news agency PTI reported Monday. In his letter, written on Saturday, Modi said India was looking for constructive and meaningful engagement with Pakistan.

The Supreme Court asked the Uttar Pradesh government on Monday why Yogi Adityanath should not be prosecuted for allegedly making a hate speech in 2007.

While addressing a Prayer meet of Vajpayee in Delhi, Advani said, "I have addressed several public meetings but I had never thought that I will once have to address a meeting like this, a meeting where Atalji would not be there"

Floodwaters receded in Kerala on Monday, leaving rescuers the grim task of retrieving bodies as the death toll from the worst monsoon rains in a century rose above 400.

Pakistan's newly appointed Foreign Minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, on Monday, delivered his first addressed wherein he called for fostering peaceful ties with Pakistan's neighbours.