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The India G20 Presidency has been able to arrive at a general consensus on four key financial matters – including the Global South in industrial economies’ growth strategies, restructuring multilateral development banks (MDBs) for inclusive global growth, leveraging digital technology for societal development and exploring potential of new technology for common good, at least three people aware of the development said.

As of now, there is a consensus on all these matters, broadly related to the finance track, and it is reflected in a draft of the joint communique subject to the heads of states’ approval, these people said, asking not to be named.

A sessions court in Ahmedabad on Friday reserved its order on the pleas filed by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders Arvind Kejriwal and Sanjay Singh, challenging the summons issued to them by a local magistrate in a criminal defamation case over comments about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's educational qualifications.

After hearing arguments from all the parties, judge J M Brahmbhatt reserved the order for September 14.

At least two people were killed and many injured – including one Assam Rifles and three Manipur police personnel – after heavy firing erupted in Manipur’s Pallel on Friday morning.

According to a defence source, the firing had begun at Molnoi, near Pallel, located in the hill district of Tengnoupal at around 6:00 am on Friday.

Molnoi is a Kuki-Zomi dominated village, while Pallel has a mixed population dominated by the Meitei community.

Two former police officers from the Central Bureau of Investigation and Delhi Police are among the many aspirants for tickets in the Rajasthan assembly election that will be held later this year. Both are trying for a ticket from the same assembly constituency, Ramgarh (no 67), and from the same party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

There are other similarities as well between Mahesh Bhardwaj, a former Delhi police officer took voluntary retirement on August 1 and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) later in the month , and ML Sharma, who retired as the special director of CBI in 2008, said he will formally join the party in a day or two. Sharma was later appointed Central Information Commissioner between 2008 and 2013.

Terrorists from India’s Jammu and Kashmir region who have taken shelter in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) will soon see their properties getting seized by the authorities, as per media reports.

The J&K administration has already initiated the process of declaring them “proclaimed offenders" and attaching their properties.

"Traitors to the nation... the people who have taken shelter in Pakistan after being involved in terrorist activities (in India) are now trying to promote terrorism from there," Dilbag Singh, the Director-General of J&K Police was quoted as saying by NDTV. He added that data about these militants was ready.