Today’s Breaking:

• The Australian government on Monday began its legal challenge to a Federal Court’s landmark decision that it has a duty of care to protect children from future personal injury caused by climate change, according to media reports.

• Activists of the Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad forced their way into a makeshift church in Karnataka’s Hubbali on Sunday morning and sang bhajans or Hindu prayer songs as a protest, alleging forced religious conversions there.

• Dubai has signed an accord to build infrastructure in Jammu and Kashmir, the government said on Monday, at a time when the Himalayan region is seeing a resurgence in violence.

• Movement of over 290 trains around the country was hit amid a ‘rail roko’ protest called to press for the arrest of Union Minister Ajay Mishra’s dismissal and arrest over Lakhimpur incident in Uttar Pradesh, in which his son has been arrested.

• In the heat of the bypolls to Hangal and Sindgi Assembly constituencies, the Congress and the BJP were involved in a spat on Twitter after the former called Prime Minister Narendra Modi “illiterate”.