A Village Revenue Assistant (VRA) died after an explosive device placed under his cot exploded in Andhra Pradesh’s YSR Kadapa district.

Police said the incident occurred in the Kottapalle village of Vemula Mandal, late Sunday night.

Narasimha was sleeping in the courtyard of his house when the bomb with a detonator placed underneath his cot went off. He died instantaneously while his wife Subbalakshmamma was injured. She was rushed to Vempalle government hospital and her condition is stated to be critical.

Their children, who were sleeping in another room, escaped unhurt. The explosion sent panic in the village.

Colombian police have shot and killed Juan Carlos Rodriguez, alias 'Zeus', one of the country's most dangerous criminals and the leader of the organised crime ring Clan del Golfo, the National Police of Colombia (PNC) confirmed.

Rodriguez, an ex-military man and fugitive, was killed on Saturday along with seven of his men during a gunfight with police in the northwest Colombian department of Antioquia, reports news agency.

"In the development of Operation Agamemnon, Juan Carlos Rodriguez, leader of the Magdalena Medio Block of the 'Clan del Golfo', died," announced PNC General Director William Salamanca on X on Sunday.

The excessive rainfall in Nepal’s catchment areas has caused widespread flooding in several districts of North Bihar, turning many villages into isolated islands.

One of the severely affected areas is West Champaran district, where the water from the Harboda River has flooded over a dozen villages in Madhopur and Guanaha Panchayats. Villagers are struggling to cope with the situation and are desperately demanding government aid, which has not yet reached them.

In Madhopur Panchayat’s ward number 6, flooding has submerged everything under four to five feet of water, making it impossible for villagers to access food for themselves and fodder for their cattle.

Ranu Mishra, the representative of the village body, expressed the community's distress, noting that the lack of boats has left them without any means of transportation.

Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock index, the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average, plunged more than 4 per cent on Monday after former Defence Minister Shigeru Ishiba was elected head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.

The sharp decline saw the index dive more than 4.6 per cent at one point as Ishiba has shown a positive stance towards increasing taxes on financial income and corporate taxes, raising concerns about his economic policies in the stock market and leading to a wave of sell-offs, reports news agency.

The strengthening of the yen against the dollar in the foreign exchange market also prompted broad-based selling, particularly in export-related stocks.

Digital transformation solutions company UST on Monday announced to expand its presence in India by adding over 3,000 new jobs at its upcoming campus in the country in the next five years.

The company, which has set a target of hiring 6,000 employees in the next five years, is geared up to inaugurate its campus in Kochi by December 2027.

It currently employs more than 2,800 people at its existing facility in Infopark Kochi.

“The company has shown high levels of commitment and determination in setting this goal of having its own state-of-the-art space in the industrial hub of Kerala, and the results will soon show off,” said Susanth Kurunthil, CEO, Infopark Kochi.

Global investment firm Fidelity has reduce the value of its holding in Elon Musk-run X (formerly Twitter) by a massive 78.7 per cent, which implies that the X social media platform is likely valued at just $9.4 billion.

The tech billionaire had bought the social media company for $44 billion in October 2022 after an intense drama.

As per new estimate from asset manager Fidelity, X is now valued at less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price (at August end), reports.

Three people of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a residential building in the al Cola area in Beirut.

This marked Israel's first attack on the capital since the outbreak of the Hezbollah-Israel conflict on October 8, 2023. Previously attacks concentrated on Beirut's southern suburbs, news agency reported quoting the al-Jadeed local TV channel.

The densely populated al Cola area has seen an influx of displaced people fleeing Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon. Following the attack, ambulances arrived to transport the wounded, while civil defence teams worked to evacuate residents from the building. The Lebanese army was also deployed to the scene.

8 rebel leaders, including Sandeep Garg, who ran as an independent candidate against Chief Minister Naib Singh Saini during the Haryana Assembly elections, have been expelled from the party. These leaders have been expelled for 6 years

The party's state president Mohanlal Badoli said that the leaders who have been expelled from the party include Ranjit Chautala, District Ram Sharma, Bachan Singh Arya, Radha Ahlawat, Naveen Goyal, Devinder Kalyan and Kehar Singh Rawat.

A total of 1,221 people were diagnosed with dengue fever in Bangladesh the highest number in a single day so far this year, according to the Ministry of Health.

This was recorded in the past 24 hours, on Sunday. In the same period, eight people died due to the mosquito-borne disease, raising the death toll to 158 so far this year.

With the fresh infections, the number of dengue cases surged to 29,786 in Bangladesh, the ministry said.

In order to fight the rising number of dengue cases, Bangladeshi health authorities have strengthened measures to check the breeding of mosquitoes and conduct anti-larval operations, news agency reported.

Indian equity indices opened in the red on Monday following negative cues from global equity markets.

At 9:40 a.m. Sensex was down 551 points or 0.64 per cent at 85,019 and Nifty was down 163 points or 0.63 per cent at 26,015.

In the BSE benchmark, Tata Steel, JSW Steel, Titan, Asian Paints, HUL, HCL Tech and Bajaj Finance were top gainers. Tech Mahindra, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, Tata Motors, Reliance, M&M, Power Grid, IndusInd Bank, SBI, Bharti Airtel, UltraTech Cement and HDFC Bank were top losers.

Selling was also seen in the midcap and smallcap stocks. Nifty midcap 100 index was down 482 points or 0.80 per cent at 59,898 and Nifty smallcap 100 index was down 137 points or 0.71 per cent at 19,104.