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The Jammu and Kashmir police on Wednesday said it will take all measures to ensure that militants are not able to carry out any subversive activity in the Union territory during US President Donald Trump's visit to the country next week.

Special Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam told reporters that he had spoken to Rakesh Maria and Mr. Maria had clarified to him that he has nowhere said that terrorist group LeT planned to portray 26/11 as Hindu terror.

The Special Task Force of the Ludhiana police has arrested two policemen and recovered over 10 gm of heroin from them. They are accused of confiscating it from the possession of five alleged drug dealers but later setting them free in return for a bribe.

The Delhi Police on Wednesday wrote to the AAP government requesting it to expedite the process to accord sanction to prosecute former JNU Students' Union president Kanhaiya Kumar and others in a sedition case, officials said.

As US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrive at the Ahmedabad airport next week, they will be welcomed by a "Shankhnaad" recital or playing of the conches along with dance performances, the Gujarat government said.

NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said the defeat of the BJP in the Delhi Assembly elections signals "beginning of the change".

Indian industry and students' groups in the UK have widely welcomed the new points-based visa system unveiled by Home Secretary Priti Patel on Wednesday to attract the "brightest and the best" from around the globe.

Former JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav on Wednesday ruled himself out as a possible chief ministerial candidate for the opposition Grand Alliance in Bihar, asserting that it is RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav who fits the bill.

The Congress today criticised the BJP-led centre for naming Sanjay Kothari, currently serving as the President's secretary, as the Chief Vigilance Commissioner and demanded that the selection process be launched afresh.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said he will ask the department concerned to take an "early decision" on the prosecution sanction against former JNU students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar and others in a sedition case.

A group of five were off-loaded from IndiGo's Delhi-Jeddah flight on Tuesday for "unruly behaviour" with one of them trying to forcibly open a door of the aircraft as it was taxiing for takeoff, insisting that their two companions who lost their boarding passes be allowed to take the flight, officials said.

Reeling under the coronavirus outbreak that has left over 2,000 dead and 74,000 infected in China, Chinese authorities have decided to postpone the new semester of several universities including Southwest University.

Amid speculations that Aam Aadmi Party is trying to get Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu's support ahead of Punjab assembly elections in 2020, the party's Punjab chief Bhagwant Mann on Wednesday said they have been no "official-level" talks with him.

Attacking the Modi government on the state of the economy, former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said the current dispensation does not acknowledge the word "slowdown" and the real danger is that if problems are not recognised, then finding credible answers to take corrective action is unlikely.

The Shimla district administration today called in five Chinese tourists and two others from Myanmar and Thailand for medical screening after they were found staying in a hotel in the hill town. Fortunately, none of them were found to be suffering from coronavirus.