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Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee, speaking to the media after his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, today said he would not get into controversial statements because he had been warned - by the Prime Minister.

Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Tuesday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led central government and said that they are putting money in the pockets of the rich and are not concerned about the poor.

Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, who began a tour of North and South 24 Parganas districts today, attacked the Mamata Banerjee government this morning saying he is not "subordinate to the state government" after officials of the two districts refused to attend a meeting called by him.

Abhijit Banerjee, winner of the 2019 Economics Nobel, this afternoon spoke to reporters hours after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Thousands of bankers of public and private sector refused to report to work on Tuesday in Patna and Bengaluru protesting the merger of ten government banks into four.

A Mumbai court on Tuesday extended the police custody of Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank's former director Surjit Singh Arora, who was arrested in connection with the multi-crore scam in the bank, till October 24.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday deferred the hearing on the petition filed by 17 rebel Karnataka Congress-JD(S) MLAs, challenging their disqualification under the anti-defection law, to October 23.

New rules to regulate hate speech, fake news, defamatory posts and anti-national activities on social media will be finalised by January 15, the government told the Supreme Court today. The top court also transferred all cases pending at the Madras, Bombay and Madhya Pradesh High Courts, concerning a demand for sharing of decrypted data of social media profiles, to itself.

Six new lizard species of ''Dravidogecko'' family have been identified in the Western Ghats by a group of scientists, who claim this to be a significant development as only one species of the genus was known so far.

A library in the US state of Connecticut has removed a memorial that featured a portrait of killedterroristJarnail Singh Bhindranwale, with the top Indian diplomat in New York welcoming the "wise decision" taken by it not to allow a divisive agenda to create rift within the Sikh community.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today endorsed a video tweeted by world champion badminton player PV Sindhu on women's empowerment theme on Diwali. PM Modi also tagged actor Deepika Padukone, who appears in the over two-minute-long video.

P Chidambaram was granted bail today in the INX Media corruption case by the Supreme Court, which ruled that there is no possibility of the former Union Minister absconding and "no whisper" of any evidence that he tried to influence even one witness. But Mr Chidambaram will not be released as he remains in the custody of the Enforcement Directorate.

Robert Vadra, husband of Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, on Monday was admitted to a private hospital in Noida after he complained of back pain.

Abhijit Banerjee, winner of the 2019 Economics Nobel, today called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who tweeted a photo of the meeting and said "India is proud of his accomplishments". The meeting took place in the backdrop of a huge debate spurred by the renowned economist's critique of the government's economic policies and sharp rejoinders from BJP leaders like Union Minister Piyush Goyal.

An organisation of overseas Kashmiri Pandits have urged the government to rehabilitate the displaced members of the community in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir which will come into existence on October 31, after the reorganisation of the state.