Delhi working to deregulate business, says PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi met top technology company heads like Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Tesla CEO Elon Musk as his visit to United States continued on Sunday. He also visited Google headquarters in California on Sunday to meet CEO Sundar Pichai. Modi later took questions from the public at a meeting at the Facebook headquarters. Zuckerberg showed his support for Modi's Digital India initiative by changing his profile picture to emblazon it with the Indian tricolour. At the meeting, Modi said that Delhi is working on deregulation and to ensure "ease of doing business".

Government proposes panel to decide MPs' pay

Amid demands that members of Parliament should not be allowed to decide their own salaries, the government has proposed to set up a three-member panel to recommend the pay and perks of lawmakers. MPs currently receives a salary of Rs 50,000 a month, along with other allowances.

BJP demands Virbhadra resignation after CBI raids

A day after Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh’s houses were raided by the Central Bureau of Investigation in a disproportionate assets case, the state Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday sought his resignation on moral grounds. However, the Congress Legislature Party offered Singh his support and adopted a resolution condemning the raids.

FTII students end hunger strike

Students of the Film and Television Institute of India demanding the removal of Gajendra Chauhan from his post as the institute's chairman post have decided to call off their hunger strikeafter the Information and Broadcasting ministry promised to hold discussions with them about their problems. The meeting will be held on Tuesday. over the issue. But the broader student strike, which entered its 188th day on Sunday, will remain in place until after the talks.

Congress-free India is BJP’s main agenda, says Amit Shah

Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah on Sunday said his party’s main agenda was a“Congress free India”. Shah told a rally in Kollam, Kerala, that the BJP had been able to provide a stable government and had started various development projects wherever it has replaced the Congress.