Senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Chhagan Bhujbal today said he will be inducted into the Maharashtra cabinet headed by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday, marking his return to ministerial office after a long gap.

Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin spoke over the phone for more than two hours on Monday, brainstorming, and possibly negotiating, what it would take for Moscow and Kyiv to agree to a fast, if not immediate ceasefire in Ukraine.

The Supreme Court rejected a Sri Lankan national’s plea to settle in India after serving a seven-year sentence under UAPA for LTTE links, stating India, burdened with a large population, cannot be a ‘dharamshala’ for foreign nationals.