News brief: Big stories of the day

As Imran Khan's Cabinet was sworn-in on Monday, the US urged Pakistan to "do more on terror and create pressure against terror groups" even as it welcomed the new Pakistan government.

Defending champions India bettered its own record at the Asian Games in hockey and surpassed its previous highest margin for the country which was 12-0, against Iran in 1974 and Bangladesh in 1982.

The destructive Kerala deluge has claimed nearly 400 lives so far with over 7 lakh people displaced and homeless, taking shelter in more than 5,000 relief camps.

Pakistan's newly appointed foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Monday had claimed that the letter written by prime minister Narendra Modi to his counterpart Imran Khan called for talks between the two countries. However, his office soon after denied that the minister had made any such statements and said that the Indian media had misquoted him. 

She was a rebel and lived her life unapologetically. Perhaps that made Urdu writer Ismat Chughtai stand out from the rest. On her 107th birth anniversary, the author was honoured with a Google doodle.