The Supreme Court will hear next week a plea by Congress leader Kamal Nath for directions to the Election Commission to carry out verification of VVPAT units in at least 10 per cent randomly selected booths in each constituency of Madhya Pradesh ahead of Assembly polls.

The proposed law to criminalise the practice of instant divorce by Muslim husbands will not see the light of the day for at least four more months as the Rajya Sabha on Friday decided to defer the consideration of the bill till the next session due to lack of consensus.

Arvind Kejriwal said the parties who are joining the proposed alliance have had no role in the country's development.

The Lok Sabha on Friday passed a bill that seeks to encourage institutional arbitration for settlement of disputes and make India a centre of robust Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanism.

After the triple talaq bill could not be taken up in the Rajya Sabha on Friday, the government blamed Congress President Rahul Gandhi for thwarting passage of the bill.

The 37-year-old electrician, accused of raping a 6-year-old girl studying in Class 2 of a New Delhi Municipal Corporation school, was suspended along with the headmistress here on Friday.

The government on Friday said that 2,574 km of new rail lines have been commissioned from 2014 to June 2018.

Amid heightened security in the backdrop of the canopy collapse tragedy in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's meeting less than a month back, BJP chief Amit Shah is slated to address his first public rally in the city this year on Saturday, when he is expected to set the tone for his party's political battle against the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) ahead of the 2019 general elections.