Key Maoist leader Kunjam Hidma of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) was arrested in Odisha’s Koraput, days after top Maoist leader Nambala Keshav Rao alias Basavaraju was killed, along with 26 others, in a Chhattisgarh encounter.

Union minister Chirag Paswan on Wednesday asserted that he has “family relations” with RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav but a political alignment was not possible because of “extreme ideological differences”

India has firmly refuted the Trump administration’s assertion that President Trump brokered a ceasefire with Pakistan by offering trade incentives. The Ministry of External Affairs emphasized that the ceasefire was achieved through direct contact between the Director Generals of Military Operations of India and Pakistan.