News brief: Big stories of the day

Modi is on another one of his campaign blitzkriegs, having spoken in Bengal earlier in the day, and is scheduled to speak later in Manipur.

Shukla said the Congress, under Priyanka, the party's in-charge of eastern Uttar Pradesh, would do well in the Lok Sabha elections and sweep the 2022 assembly elections.

One of the most senior armymen in Kashmir has said that there has been a "positive response" after his last appeal to Kashmiri mothers — that they not allow their sons to become militants.

Britain's government held out the possibility of compromise on Sunday with the opposition Labour Party to try to win support in parliament for leaving the European Union with a deal, just days before the latest Brexit date.

GoAir has denied news reports that it stopped actor Preity Zinta from boarding its flights."Sections of the media have reported malicious and factually incorrect story that is false, fabricated and without any basis stating that 'Preity Zinta was stopped from boarding GoAir flight'," the airline said in a statement.