Former Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigations agency on Wednesday evening amid high drama outside his residence in South Delhi. His supporters shouted slogans and the CBI officials had to face harsh time while making an attempt to get inside the house. He has now been taken into the CBI custody for questioning.

In the inducted ministers, 18 happens to be the new faces. Four ministers of state (independent charge) have been elevated to cabinet rank while a minister of state has been rewarded with minister of state (independent charge) rank.

The 64-year-old leader, a member of parliament in the Lok Sabha of the Indian Parliament representing the Ahmedabad East constituency, tweeted that Imran Khan's current situation is like a school kid who had prepared whole year for Narendra Modi, but the examiner asked Amit Shah in the examination.

"We won't need an aircraft but please ensure us the freedom to travel and meet the people, mainstream leaders and our soldiers stationed over there," replied the former Congress president.

"The doctors informed the Vice President that Shri Jaitley is responding to the treatment and his condition is stable. The Vice President also met Shri Jaitley's family members who were present," the Vice President's office tweeted this morning.

A high-level meeting will be conducted on Saturday to pick new Congress chief, two months after Rahul Gandhi announced his retirement from the post, owning responsibility of the Lok Sabha Election debacle in 2019.

Tsering Namgyal strongly supported the move by Centre to bifurcate Jammu and Kashmir to the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Union Territory of Ladakh.

Sushma Swaraj's mortal remains were kept at her residence overnight, they will be taken to Bharatiya Janata Party headquarters at around 12 noon, the cremation will be done on Wednesday at 3pm.

Former external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj passed away suddenly on Tuesday night after she suffered a cardiac arrest. 67-year-old Iron lady was better known for her strong helping hand to many Indians in distress abroad.

Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed resolution to abrogate Article 370, which gave special rights to Jammu and Kashmir.

Subtraction of Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir sailed through the Rajya Sabha on Monday, leaving Congress in splits. While several prominent leaders of the Opposition voted in favour of it some remained defiant amid walkouts by several other leaders.

The Union Cabinet met at the official residence of Prime Minister in New Delhi on Monday. The meeting started at 9.30 am at 7 Lok Kalyan Marg.

Aam Aadmi Party lawmaker Alka Lamba has said that she has made up her mind of quitting the party and is also considering an option to contest the upcoming Delhi Elections as an independent candidate.

With sudden demise of former Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit, there were news reports which claimed that the vacant position will be filled by Navjot Singh Sidhu. However, Congress denied any such decision.

The Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) on Wednesday booked Bharatiya Janata Party's MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar and 10 others for murder charges in the accident case of Unnao Rape survivor, said a news report.

14 rebel Congress lawmakers, responsible for bringing down the coalition government in Karnataka, have been disqualified from the party on Tuesday.

Tarun Chaudhri has become the first Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot to do a wingsuit skydive jump. He attempted the daring act on the occasion of Kargil Diwas, which is celebrated on July 21.

Congress lawmaker Sanjay Singh on Tuesday submitted his resignation and said he would join the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday.