New Delhi: Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy met former Prime Minister and senior Congress leader Dr. Manmohan Singh at the Congress headquarters here in the national capital on Saturday.

Kumaraswamy met Singh ahead of the Niti Ayog meeting on Saturday afternoon.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath, Rajasthan’s Ashok Gehlot and Puducherry’s V Narayansamy were present at the meeting. Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel also joined later.

Earlier in the day, ahead of the meeting Kumaraswamy met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and briefed him about drought situation, NREGA Scheme implementation and also sought centre’s aid as the state is expecting only 45% monsoon this year.

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Patna (PTI): The body of a Bihar Police personnel was found hanging from the ceiling of a room in his barracks here, a senior officer said on Sunday.

Patna Senior Superintendent of Police Kartikeya Sharma said a havildar with Bihar State Armed Police-1, popularly known as "Gorkha battalion", died allegedly by suicide as he had been suffering from some ailment.

The deceased left behind "two suicide notes", one in Hindi and the other in his native language Nepali.

"From the suicide notes, it appears that Navraj Sunar, the deceased havildar, had been suffering from some ailment which had caused him much mental anguish and may have driven him to take the extreme step," the SSP said.

The body was being sent to the native village of the deceased in Nepal after a post-mortem examination, while further investigations were on, with forensic experts inspecting the site of the incident.