"He (Kejriwal) is not just anybody, but an elected Chief Minister who got 67 seats. He is begging for justice and nobody is taking note of the matter. I was thinking if Vajpayeeji was the Prime Minister today, what would he have done? He would have ordered the Union Home Minister to sit with the elected Chief Minister of Delhi and find a solution to this impasse," he said.

 The death toll in the bus accident that took place in Kannauj on Wednesday morning rose to 18 by the evening, with one more passenger of the ill-fated vehicle succumbing to his injuries, police said.

 Former President Pranab Mukherjee, who was in the eye of a storm and the butt of criticism from some Congress leaders for going to the RSS headquarters, attended the Iftar party hosted by Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Wednesday approved continuation of the Three Year Action Plan (2017-2020) of the scheme for Agricultural Education Division and ICAR Institutes to strengthen and develop higher agricultural education in the country.

As four BSF troopers died on the international border in Jammu and Kashmir, the Congress on Wednesday termed the government "weak and cowardly" and slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for posting a fitness challenge on Twitter the same day.

 Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Wednesday said reservation in promotion for Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) will continue at both at the Centre and in the states and directives in this regard will be issued soon.

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved an agrrement between the ICMR and France's INSERM for cooperation in the field of medical, life science and health research, an official statement said.

The National Capital Region (NCR) on Wednesday saw a sudden deterioration in air quality as the entire region was under the grip of dust bough through winds from Rajasthan, Iran and southern Afghanistan, officials said.