All three controversial farm bills that are at the centre of a huge political storm and cost the ruling BJP its alliance with the Shiromani Akali Dal, became laws today with the signature of President Ram Nath Kovind; two people were killed and another two injured in Rajasthan's Dungarpur after four days of violent protests by members of tribal communities over the recruitment of government school teachers; Gupteshwar Pandey, the former police chief of Bihar, has joined the ruling Janata Dal United ahead of the elections; a video showing Indian army tanks and armoured personnel carriers in forward locations in eastern Ladakh - the theatre of the face-off with China since April-May - has been released by the centre; former Union minister Jaswant Singh, a close associate of ex-prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, died today following a long spell of illness. He was 82.