The first attempt to reach out personally to Kashmiri separatists was made today by individual opposition members of parliament, who had gone to Kashmir as part of the all-party delegation but were turned away at every place; a senior Supreme Court judge, who boycotted a meeting of the collegium or the group of senior-most judges that decides on judicial appointments on Thursday, has told NDTV that he will not attend the collegium meetings till there is more transparency in the system; Keith Vaz, Britain's longest serving Indian-origin lawmaker, has announced that he will step down after he was embroiled in a sex scandal; all this and more in our news wrap of the day.
