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Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad was stopped at the Jammu airport on Tuesday and sent back to Delhi, a party leader said, the second time in a month the former chief minister was not allowed to visit Jammu and Kashmir.

Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi today raised questions over India's need to engage with US President Donald Trump on Kashmir. Mr Owaisi's comments came after Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Donald Trump over phone on Monday to discuss the regional developments after the Centre's decision to scrap Jammu and Kashmir's special status.

After the Delhi-Lucknow Tejas Express, the railways has decided to hand over the operations of the Ahmedabad-Mumbai Central Tejas Express to its subsidiary, IRCTC, as a test case, ahead of the implementation of its plan to rope in private players in the running of certain trains, sources said on Tuesday.

The first reshuffle of Yogi Adityanath's cabinet in Uttar Pradesh will take place on Wednesday, a Raj Bhavan official said.

The Supreme Court made it clear to the country's "rich and powerful" on Tuesday that their cases would not be accorded preference and it would not direct high courts or trial courts to adjudicate any matter in a particular time frame.

A family in Assam's Silchar has called off the wedding of their daughter when the groom failed to provide his citizenship credentials.

A man allegedly gave ''triple talaq'' to his wife inside the civil court premises in Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow in the presence of her advocate after she refused to accept a chewing gum from him, police said on Tuesday.

The Delhi High Court today rejected former Union Minister P Chidambaram's request for anticipatory bail, leaving him open to the possibility of being arrested in the INX Media case. The Congress leader's legal team, led by senior advocate Kapil Sibal, is expected to challenge the order in Supreme Court. The court said Mr Chidambaram appears to be the "kingpin" in the case, and gave reasons for denying him relief in the case.

A Bihar court on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant against the absconding Independent MLA from Mokama and strongman Anant Kumar Singh.

Former finance minister P Chidambaram was denied protection from arrest today in the INX Media case with a Delhi High Court judge saying "the facts of the case prima facie reveal that the petitioner is the kingpin, the key conspirator."

Pakistan said on Tuesday it would take the Kashmir issue to International Court of Justice, weeks after India ended special status to Jammu and Kashmir by a presidential order.

As the Yamuna continues to flow close to the danger mark in Delhi, water from the overflowing river entered in the low-lying areas at Kisan Colony and Yamuna Khadar near ISBT in the national capital on Tuesday.

The Lok Sabha Secretariat said it has banned the use of non-reusable plastic water bottles and other plastic items within the Parliament complex with effect from Tuesday.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday rejected senior Congress leader P Chidambaram's petition for anticipatory bail in the INX Media case.

Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Tuesday said the target of ''Housing for All'' under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana will be achieved in 2020, two years before the deadline.