Delhi police stops JNU students from marching to Rashtrapati Bhavan and lathicharges them with no arrests in violence that broke out in the university 4 days ago; Mamata Banerjee will stay away from an opposition meeting against the amended Citizenship law and NRC, saying she will fight the issue alone accusing the Left and Congress of hooliganism in West Bengal; Prime Minister Narendra Modi steps in amid worst growth forecast in 11 years, holding second pre-budget consultation meeting, this time with economists at Niti Aayog, with the opposition asking where Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was; 15 envoys, including the US and Norwegian ambassadors are in Kashmir as part of a government outreach where they were briefed on the situation in the state, but with no meeting with Jammu and Kashmir's former chief ministers.
