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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon has called for a collective global action to build resilience and prepare for droughts, as well as to combat desertification (a type of land degradation).    

President Barack Obama said Monday that Iran's election of a relative moderate shows that the country's people want to change course.    

The rains, which began Saturday night, have continued for the past three days. With the met department having forecast more thunder showers, the already grave situation may worsen with more landslides as the hillsides have become weak following incessant rain, said the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF).

    

Gujarat CM Narendra Modi is likely to meet LK Advani and Rajnath Singh in New Delhi today. Agencies quoted local VHP leaders to say Modi would be in Ayodhya on Wednesday or Friday, but central BJP leader from UP Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told HT that no programme of him was fixed as yet.    

Former US president Bill Clinton said during a visit to Israel on Monday that he saw "no alternative" to a Palestinian state.    

Iran is making "steady progress" in expanding its nuclear programme and international sanctions do not seem to be slowing it down, the UN nuclear agency chief said on Monday.    

The eurozone came under pressure from other rich economies on Monday to press on with a banking union and Japan was urged to follow up on massive central bank stimulus with structural reforms and measures to tackle its budget deficit.    

Nine more people died following heavy rain in the tribal district of Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh, on Monday, taking the toll to 10. The district remained cut off from the state for more than 48 hours. The deaths were as a result of house collapses, HT reports.    

Twenty-three people died and more than 50 have gone missing on the Rudraprayag-Kedarnath route in Uttarakhand on account of rain and landslides over the past 24 hours, HT reports.    

The animal husbandry department of Kashmir has a new problem in its hands. Poultry farmers of neighbouring states arecolouring unwanted male chicks in green, purple and orange and dumping. Not only are they dumping them in the valley but are also selling them to locals, Peerzada Ashiq reports.    

Commission quotes NGO to highlight 'dismal' level of education, Chetan Chauhan reports.    

IB officials want law to protect them from legal hassles. An IB official is under the lens in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case, Rajesh Ahuja reports.    

Saying that "all like-minded and secular parties" should work together, the Congress on Monday extended an olive branch to Nitish Kumar's JD(U), while sending out a message to Lalu Prasad's RJD - an outside supporter of the UPA.    

Regardless of whether Nitish Kumar’s gamble of parting company with the BJP in Bihar fails or succeeds, the Bihar chief minister has lent variety to the public discourse on Narendra Modi’s suitability as a candidate for the PM’s office. Vinod Sharma writes.    

Four of the six independent MLAs participated in the Janata Dal (U) meeting of legislators and senior party functionaries today, indicating that the Nitish Kumar government has managed the support of the 122 MLAs required to prove its majority in the assembly.    

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, when asked about the prospects of the JD(U) joining hands with the Congress, said on Monday it was premature to talk about it, HT reports.    

With Sharad Yadav resigning from post of convener of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), one name that has come into reckoning for the post is that of Punjab chief minister and SAD patron Parkash Singh Badal.    

An Indian is all set to be a part of this year's men's singles final at the Wimbledon as Pinki Sonkar has been chosen to toss the coin ahead of the marquee match on July 7.    

No matter how one looks at the BJP after Narendra Modi's ascent as its campaign chief for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls and Nitish Kumar's resultant exit from the NDA, affairs within the saffron party are anything but fine, Shekhar Iyer reports.    

While ignoring MPs from Mumbai, Vidarbha and Central Maharashtra during the Union cabinet reshuffle on Monday, the Congress high command gave a strong message to senior party leaders in the state: work harder ahead of elections. Dharmendra Jore reports.