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A 23-year-old student leader from Manipur who was arrested in Delhi last week on sedition charges is likely to be taken to a court in state capital Imphal on Tuesday. Veewon Thokchom's plea against his transit remand to Imphal was rejected by a court in the national capital.

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has reacted to his minister Navjot Singh Sidhu's remark on Pakistan after Pulwama terror attack, saying that he didn't under the "intricacies" of the defence sector.

The West Bengal government and its police denied the CBI's allegations in the Supreme Court on Monday that they obstructed investigation into the Saradha chit fund scam cases, with the state police asserting the central agency forcefully tried to enter the Kolkata police chief's home on February 3 without valid papers.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to initiate a high-level probe into financial impropriety and possible misappropriation of savings of common people due to the debt crisis in Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) Ltd.

With the Lok Sabha elections just around the corner, the Congress-led Punjab government today announced reduction in fuel prices, new schemes for farmers, young people and members of the Scheduled Castes as it presented the state budget today.

The Supreme Court today said it would not allow anyone to make a mockery of medical and legal education in the country and warned of stringent steps against those who play with its quality.

Ahead of Lok Sabha elections in May, BJP Karnataka chief BS Yeddyurappa said today that Minister Narendra Modi's popularity has not faded and party hopes to win more than 22 seats in Karnataka. "Modi wave has not waned. There is no major agitation against his rule," he told reporters in Bengaluru.

Former Union minister P Chidambaram on Monday accused the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate of "delaying" Aircel-Maxis cases in a Delhi court, which extended interim protection from arrest granted to him and his son Karti till March 8.

The Calcutta High Court today gave MP Soumitra Khan, who had recently joined the BJP after quitting Trinamool Congress, interim protection from arrest for four weeks in connection with cases of allegedly taking money on the promise of giving jobs.

Amid heightened tensions with Pakistan over the Pulwama terror attack, members of the Indian delegation at the hearing of the Kulbhushan Jadhav case at the International Court of Justice snubbed their Pakistani counterparts by refusing to shake hands with them.

Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti on Monday released a joint appeal, saying it was the terrorists that attacked the soldiers, not "Muslims" of the state.

As the entire nation unites in grief and anger over the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir Pulwama's on Thursday, that left 40 CRPF soldiers dead, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today that the time for talks with Pakistan is over. In Bihar, yesterday, PM Modi expressed his anguish over the attack and said "a fire is raging in my heart."

The last rites of Major Chitresh Bisht were still underway in Haridwar today, when the army said that Major Vibhuti Dhoundiyal had died in an encounter with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama.

Demanding a strong action against Pakistan in the wake of the Pulwama terror attack that killed over 40 CRPF personnel, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said the security forces must kill double the number to send a strong message to the terrorists' organisation and Pakistan.

A 10-year-old girl was raped multiple times allegedly by her neighbour, police said today.