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A national survey on the implementation of Centre’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyan recently placed the capital at the 397th position, prompting AAP’s Delhi government and the BJP-led corporations to get into another war of words.

The big story of Monday’s parliamentary elections in Sri Lanka may well be the possibility of a comeback by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

Delhi Metro has been auctioning used poly-bags, water bottles, lunchboxes, umbrellas and helmets left behind by commuters in trains and stations every six months. That it’s a smart move can be gauged from the fact that, in November last year, the auction generated Rs 2.1 lakh.

A nine-year-old boy was electrocuted when he went to the neighbourhood park to fetch a kite on Independence Day in south east Delhi’s Badarpur area.

A 42-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide by jumping in front of a Metro train in Janakpuri East Metro station on Sunday afternoon. A seven-page long suicide letter was recovered from her possession. Police said she hasn’t blamed anyone for her death.

A doctor running a dental clinic in east Delhi has been asked to pay Rs 1.15 lakh as compensation to a patient for conducting a faulty surgery in 2011, due to which the victim suffered injuries to her tongue and still has difficulty speaking.

A 45-year-old man and his wife killed their three daughters and then committed suicide at %Vyas Colony in Bikaner on Sunday.

The results of the polls for the 129 civic bodies slated for Monday could have far reaching ramifications amidst maximalist positions political parties have taken in the recent past. Poll officials are likely to declare the results on Thursday.

A biotech engineer from Jodhpur Nikhil Bohra has won an international award from United Nations Industrial Development Organization’s (UNIDO) Investment and Technology Promotion Office (ITPO), Italy, for Innovative Ideas and Technologies in Agribusiness in the “Youth category” for his venture Cattle Mettle. Nikhil is the only Indian selected for this award.

Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje called for joint efforts and participation from the public for the progress of the state. Raje in her independence speech said that the government has initiated schemes to improve infrastructure and providing electricity supply and road network.

A verbal spat between school children took an ugly turn at Piplu village in Bharatpur on Sunday in which one person was killed and six others were injured. Police said that there was animosity between the two groups over Panchayat elections for a long time.

The Rajasthan University Students Union polls are likely to see a multi-facet contest for the post of president between the Congress-backed NSUI, BJP's student wing ABVP and rebels of both the parties. Riding on the crest of last year's unprecedented success, the NUSI announced its presidential candidate Satveer Chaudhary two days ago.

Eleven municipal councils in four districts of Jodhpur division will go to polls on Monday. Both - Congress and BJP are trying hard not only to retain the existing boards but also to capture as much councils as possible. At many places, the contest has become triangular due to rebel candidates of both the parties who are fighting as independents.

Pakistan’s hawkish Islamist general Hamid Gul, who, as director general of that country’s all-powerful Inter Services Intelligence was known to have nurtured Khalistani and Kashmiri militants, died of brain haemorrhage in Murree on Sunday aged 78.

The Kota district administration is all set to conduct municipal corporation polls for Itawa and Ramganj Mandi on Monday. "We are religiously following the standard protocol of the state election commission," said Dr Ravi Kumar Surpur, DM, Kota.

The administration beefed up security in view of municipal elections in Ajmer, Kishangarh, Kekri, Sarwar and Bijaynagar.

The BJP and the Congress are locked in an interesting contest in municipal elections in Pokhran. Here, independent candidates are likely to play a major role in the final outcome of the elections.

A post on social media disrespecting the Tricolour landed a teenage brother duo in jail in Gorakhpur on Sunday. The two brothers were arrested by the police and produced before a special court on Sunday. While one of the two was sent to jail, the other, aged 12, was ordered to be sent to juvenile home.

The municipal corporation elections are not being fought on development agenda and local issues.

The success of Maha Kumbh 2013 has now been chronicled in form of a book produced by teachers and scholars of Harvard University. Titled ‘Kumbh Mela, Mapping the Ephermal City’, the 447-page book will be formally released by chief minister Akhilesh Yadav in New Delhi on Monday.

Under the free medicines scheme, the health department’s Rajasthan Medical Services Corporation (RMSC) has changed norms for procurement of medicines. Now, it has written to all drug manufacturers to make sure that they procure WHO-GMP (good manufacturing practice) certificate issued by the licensing authority.

A 31-year-old police constable posted at Jahanabad SP office in Bihar was arrested by the Patna police on Sunday for allegedly sending threatening SMSes to Manoj Bhatt, director general of police of Rajasthan. The accused had sent five messages on the eve of Independence Day, threatening to take revenge for the hanging of Ajmal Kasab and Yakub Menon.

Affordable houses in private colonies are expected to cost more for consumers in future as the state government has decided to increase their rates.

The verbal duel between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi in parliament is all set to extend to Amethi with two Union ministers ready to take him on in his pocket borough later this month.

Urban development and housing minister (UDH) Rajpal Singh pulled up the Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC) officials and public representatives over promoting the illegal construction and poor sanitation condition in the city.