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Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina and her sister have been taken to a ‘safe shelter’ away from the the official residence, news agency Reuters reported today citing sources.

 “There was complete clarity in my mind that taking the public in Jammu and Kashmir into confidence was absolutely essential for the execution of the decision,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi says about his government’s decision to abrogate Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir. 

 “The basis of reservation in Article 341 of the Constitution of India has been caste discrimination and not class. So where does the point of the creamy layer arise?… If a person contests an election from SC and ST seats, then he will not be able to contest the election from the same seat again as the person will be classified under creamy layer after that,” AAP MP Sanjay Singh said today.

Byju Raveendran has filed a caveat before the Supreme Court against its US-based creditor Glas Trust Company LLC over the order passed by the insolvency appellate tribunal NCLAT. The caveat was filed before the apex court on August 3, a day after the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) passed an order restoring the board of edtech major after setting aside insolvency proceedings against it.

The 20-year-old nephew of Chhattisgarh Deputy Chief Minister Arun Sao drowned in a waterfall in Kabirdham district, police said on Monday. Tushar Sahu drowned in Rani Dahra waterfall under Bodla police station limits during an outing with friends on Sunday evening, Kabirdham Additional Superintendent of Police Vikas Kumar said.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will inaugurate the first BIMSTEC Business Summit here which aims to foster greater regional collaboration through robust trade and investment relations among the members of the seven-nation grouping. The summit will be hosted by the Ministry of External Affairs in association with the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) from August 6-8, the MEA said in a statement on Monday.

The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) on Monday rescued 26 villagers stranded in flood waters in Jharkhand’s Garhwa district, officials said. Twenty-six persons of six families were stranded in flood waters of Sone river near Hariharpur police outpost since Sunday evening. “The NDRF team rescued 26 persons trapped in floods in Sone river near Hariharpur this morning around 7.30 am. As soon as information reached us, we sent an NDRF rescue team and they were evacuated,” Garhwa Superintendent of Police Deepak Kumar Pandey said.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) today brought two accused arrested in the Rameshwaram Cafe blast to the spot for inspection as part of its investigation into the incident that occurred on March 1, police sources said. During the course of its investigation into the Cafe blast, the NIA has conducted extensive searches at more than 29 locations across the country. “A team of NIA probing the Rameshwaram Cafe blast came here this morning at the Cafe for spot inspection along with two of the accused as part of their internal investigation into the case,” a police source said.