As China carries out fresh military drills around Taiwan on Monday, Taiwan is due to begin its own live-fire drills on Tuesday. Su Tseng-chang, Taiwan's premier, said China was "barbarously using military action" to disturb peace in the Taiwan Strait.

Meanwhile, authorities on Monday demolished the encroachment at a Noida housing society by Shrikant Tyagi, the self-proclaimed BJP worker in the news for allegedly abusing and assaulting a woman last week.