Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that the amount of new banknotes being released would not be the same as that circulating before the demonetisation move announced by the centre; In the fight with Mamata Banerjee, the Army produced letters reiterating that they informed the West Bengal government about deployment at toll plazas; Days before he was killed, Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani spoke to Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed and sought his 'blessings' and offered to put up a united front of LeT and his own Hizbul in their 'jehad' against India; Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and son of Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh said he would not have allowed Amar Singh's comeback into the party. All this and more in our news rap of the day.