LIVE News Updates: Police exercising control, talks are on with JNU admin and students, says Delhi Police PRO

Two terrorists were killed in exchange of fire between security forces and terrorists in Bandipora, Jammu and Kashmir on Monday. A cache of arms and ammunition have been recovered.

Kashmir police said that one of the terrorists has been identified as Talha, a Pakistani citizen. He was operating as commander of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).

Mandeep S Randhawa, Delhi Police PRO said police are exercising restraint to keep the situation under control. They are in contact with Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) authorities as well as students. Our talks with the students are on.

Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu has nominated former prime minister and senior Congress leader Manmohan Singh to the parliamentary standing committee on finance in place of party colleague Digvijaya Singh.

Digvijaya Singh has now been nominated to the parliamentary standing committee on urban development by the chairman of the Upper House, according to a Rajya Sabha bulletin.

Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' was inside the AICTE auditorium since morning as protests by JNU students escalated, officials said.

'Nishank' along with Vice President Venkaiah Naidu had gone to the AICTE to attend the JNU's third convocation. While Naidu left the premises before the protest escalated, Nishank had to stay inside for hours.

"He is inside. But the situation has been handled. The minister has spoken to JNUSU president and assured their demands will be addressed," a senior HRD Ministry official said.

The minister had two cancel two events at Shastri Bhawan scheduled after the convocation, the officials said.

Mini buses began plying on some routes in the city on Monday while railways conducted two successful trial runs on the Srinagar-Baramulla stretch ahead of resumption of the train service on Tuesday, officials said.

The train service has been suspended since 5 August when the Centre decided to abrogate Article 370.

A railway official told PTI that railways conducted the trial run of the service for the first time in over three months since the shutdown in the valley.

Two trains have collided at Kacheguda Railway Station in Hyderabad on Monday, several injured

Jawaharlal Nehru University’s Students on Monday took to Delhi streets to protest against the fee hike, besides the against the “anti-student” policies of the varsity’s administration. The varsity is scheduled to hold its third convocation on Monday with Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu as the chief guest.

A Malaysian judge on Monday ordered former Prime Minister Najib Razak to enter a defense at his first corruption trial linked to the massive looting at the 1MDB state investment fund.

Najib said he would testify in his defense when the trial resumes.

Senior Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Monday said if the BJP was not willing to fulfill its promise of sharing the chief minister's post in Maharashtra, there was no point in continuing the alliance.

A day after Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari invited the Shiv Sena to stake claim to form government, Raut told reporters here that the BJP "insulted" people's mandate by not abiding to the "50:50" formula which, he claimed, was decided before the Lok Sabha polls.

The BJP said yesterday that they can't form the government... This is their ego. It's an insult to the people of Maharashtra, says Shiv Sena's Sanjay Raut

Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant announced this morning that he was resigning as a minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, in what is seen as a precursor to the party's severing of ties with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) after a feud over government formation in Maharashtra.