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Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Monday claimed that the "Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is going to come to see his bank locker tomorrow" adding that nothing will be found in the locker like nothing was found in the 14-hour raid at his residence on August 19. He further said that he and his family would fully cooperate in the investigation.

"Tomorrow, CBI is coming to see our bank locker. Nothing was found in the 14-hour raid at my house on 19th August. Nothing will be found in the locker either. Welcome CBI. My family and I will fully cooperate in the investigation," Sisodia said in a tweet in Hindi.

Dissident Congress leader Anand Sharma on Sunday raised questions during the crucial CWC meeting on the preparation of electoral rolls for the AICC president's election and asked whether due process under the party's constitution was followed or not, sources claimed. AICC general secretary communications Jairam Ramesh, however, asserted that no questions were raised about the party's electoral process and schedule. Speaking at the CWC meeting before the party's Central Election Authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry listed out the schedule for the election of the Congress president, Sharma claimed he has received complaints that neither any virtual nor any physical meeting was held to finalise the electoral rolls, the sources said.

Former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad will float a national political party in the next 20 days and will be the chief ministerial candidate for Jammu and Kashmir and when elections are held, his close aide and former minister GM Saroori said on Sunday.

Azad, a Congress veteran, resigned from the party on Friday blaming former president Rahul Gandhi for demolishing the entire consultative mechanism. Saroori who quit the party hours after Azad along with a dozen senior Congress leaders — most of them former ministers and legislators — said on Sunday that the new party will be a secular one.

After rebranding its Duo video chat app as Meet, tech giant Google has brought back the original Duo icon and name as a separate shortcut that appears in the app launcher. Google, earlier this year had announced to merge its two video calling services into one and selected “Meet” as the surviving brand, reports 9To5Google.

The Google Duo app is the only one that is still being used in terms of implementation and is being upgraded with a new home screen and features from both services.

With the successful conclusion of the 5G spectrum auction earlier this month, India now awaits the roll out of the service. As Union Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Thursday said that 5G services will be launched by October 12, PM Narendra Modi shed light on 6G plans for the country.

Even as over a month is left for India to get 5G services, PM Modi on Thursday announced that the Central government is gearing up to start 6G services in the country. This could be done as soon as by the end of this decade, PM shared while addressing the Grand Finale of Smart India Hackathon 2022.