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Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram, who has been in judicial custody at the Tihar jail in Delhi since September 5 in the INX Media corruption case, has been granted bail by the Supreme Court.

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, will call on Prime Minister Narendra Modi this morning. The meeting takes place in the middle 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.

Waiting eagerly for her son to come home after winning the Nobel prize, Economist Abhijit Banerjee's mother says it is his late father's rationality and sobriety which has rubbed off on his son, making him balanced and matured in handling criticism as also fame. An award like the Nobel, she says, is recognition of good work, but not something "one should go on dancing about".

Home Minister Amit Shah is "contributing significantly in empowering and securing India", Prime Minister Narendra Modi said this morning as he tweeted birthday greetings for Mr Shah, who turns 55 today.

Incidents of violence and discrimination against minorities, including attacks on Dalits and Muslims by cow vigilantes, are not in keeping with India's legal protections for minorities, a top US diplomat told a Congressional subcommittee on Monday.

The Trump administration on Tuesday said while it supports India's development agenda behind scrapping Jammu and Kashmir's special status under Article 370, it was concerned over the current situation in the Valley.

The US on Tuesday said it supports a direct dialogue between India and Pakistan as outlined in the Simla Agreement, asserting that the "chief obstacle" to talks remain Islamabad's continued support to terrorists that engage in cross-border terrorism.

Over 3.5 lakh cases of crime against women were registered across the country in 2017, continuing the upward trend for the third consecutive year, the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data released on Monday showed.

A two-seater aircraft at a state-run flying training institute in Uttar Pradesh's Amethi caught fire after an uncontrolled landing on Monday, officials said. The pilot, however, managed to eject safely.

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) Monday filed a plea in the Supreme Court challenging the law which criminalises instant "triple talaq".

Asserting that India and China share "cordial relations", Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday said that "perceptional differences" between both countries on boundary issue have been handled with "great maturity and responsibly".

The current phase of Indo-US ties has its roots in the 1971 Bangladesh crisis as the two nations could develop a parallel approach on key areas of security and economy in spite of opposite views, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said on Monday.

The Assam Cabinet on Monday decided that from 2021, it will not give government jobs to people having more than two children.