Tottenham have received offers from more than one club for Real Madrid target Gareth Bale, according to reports on Monday.

With the BJP calling the Food Security Bill a “vote security bill”, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav took a leaf out of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi’s book by suggesting it be kept in abeyance till all state chief ministers could be consulted.

Thousands of people in Allahabad district have been forced to leave their homes and move to safer places after the Ganga and Yamuna began swelling alarmingly on Sunday.

Two TDP members, C.M. Ramesh and Y.S. Chowdhary, were suspended from Rajya Sabha on Monday under Rule 255 for continuously disrupting the House by protesting against the decision to form Telangana. Cracking the whip, Rajya Sabha deputy chairman P.J. Kurien suspended the two MPs for a day.

Cardiff City celebrated their return to the top flight with a 3-2 victory over Manchester City that left manager Malky Mackay in understandably buoyant mood.

Asserting that the Congress’ aim was to completely eradicate “hunger and malnutrition”, party chief Sonia Gandhi on Monday urged all parties to forget their differences and support the Food Security Bill to send out a “big message” on India’s capabilities.

As the police net closes in on controversial godman Asaram Bapu in the case of sexual assault involving a 16-year-old girl in a Jodhpur ashram, the Union home ministry has asked the governments of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Delhi to share the facts of the case.

Raising a number of questions over the Food Security Bill, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav said, “It is clearly being brought for elections...Why didn’t you bring this bill earlier when poor people were dying because of hunger? ... Every election, you bring up a measure. There is nothing for the poor,” the SP chief said.

Chinese fifth seed Li Na reached the US Open second round with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Olga Govortsova of Belarus on Monday.

The parliamentary standing committee on law and justice has recommended statutory backup to the Model Code of Conduct and sought to take away some powers vested in the Election Commission like derecognising a political party.