Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast is in talks with several component manufacturers as it looks to source more from India, the company's Asia CEO said on Monday.

The firm is in discussions with several of its current component suppliers, and some want to shift part of their production to the industrial park in India, VinFast Asia CEO Pham Sanh Chau told Reuters on the sidelines of the inauguration of its Indian plant in the southern city of Thoothukudi.

Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) founder and former chief minister Shibu Soren passed away at the age of 81, his son Hemant Soren confirmed on Monday.

Shibu Soren had been undergoing treatment at Delhi’s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital since late June. He had been placed on ventilator support due to kidney-related complications, according to earlier reports by PTI.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Monday backed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for calling out the Delhi police for allegedly referring to Bengali as a Bangladeshi language, labelling it a "direct insult to the very language in which the National Anthem is composed."

Stalin said that statements like these were not "inadvertent errors" but exposed the dark mindset of a regime that undermines diversity.

The INDIA bloc leaders are set to meet on August 7 in the national capital amid their demands to hold a Parliamentary discussion on the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Bihar ahead of the upcoming assembly elections, Congress MP KC Venugopal said.

"There will be a get-together on August 7 in Delhi. INDIA alliance leaders will be there," Venugopal told ANI.

Amid chaos over Delhi police allegedly referring to Bengali as Bangladeshi language in a communication note, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader on Monday morning hit out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, suggesting that she be booked under National Security Act (NSA) for allegedly inciting linguistic conflict.

He argued that her reaction to the entire issue was "misplaced and dangerously inflammatory", while adding that Delhi Police's letter does not describe Bangla as a 'Bangladeshi' language.

India has released its first official set of guidelines on how expert panels should review and approve new drugs, medical devices, and biologics, Mint reported. This move is aimed at fixing problems of unclear and inconsistent approvals that have previously slowed down drug launches and weakened the pharmaceutical industry's trust in the system.

These new rules, issued by the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), are designed to improve how India regulates new medical products.

Former MP and suspended JD(S) leader Prajwal Revanna gets sentenced to life imprisonment by a Special Court in a rape case on Saturday.

The Special Court for MPs/MLAs Judge Santosh Gajanan Bhat also imposed a total fine of ₹10 lakh on the accused.

Since Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, the number of Indian nationals deported from the US has gone up significantly. According to data from India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), 1,703 Indians have been sent back in just six and a half months — averaging around eight deportations a day, news agency PTI reported. This is almost three times the daily average seen during the Joe Biden administration, when about three Indians were deported daily between January 2020 and December 2024.

The National Stock Exchange of India has paid ₹40.35 crore ($4.6 million) to the markets regulator to settle a case involving the indirect sharing of confidential information on listed companies with a third-party vendor.

India's largest bourse operator shared the information with its unit NSE Data and Analytics Limited (NDAL) "for onward distribution to a 3rd party vendor, without having any legally binding agreement in place," the Securities and Exchange Board of India said in its settlement order on Friday.

Deals on tourism projects worth ₹500 crore were inked in the presence of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu at Andhra Pradesh Tourism Investors Programme at Gandikota Fort in Kadapa district on Friday.

Andhra Pradesh Tourism Corporation inked these deals with Ease My Trip, Hilton Hotels and others for tourism projects at various locations.

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