A crack about 20 feet long and a sunken section have appeared in the approach road of the 13 crore Majuraha-Hardiya bridge in Motihari, just 20 days after its inauguration, raising questions over construction quality.

Landslides and flash floods killed five people in Kerala, with two missing, while three children drowned in Barabanki, UP. Roads in Gujarat's Bhavnagar and Rajkot were flooded, as monsoon begins to withdraw from Rajasthan.

A woman fell into a deep gorge near the Ganesh Temple on the Tungnath trek in Rudraprayag on Sunday evening. Rescue teams searched through the night, and the operation resumed on Monday morning.

The new office at the Himachal Pradesh State Secretariat in Shimla is being inaugurated today. Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu is expected to start working from the new building.