SFI's Aishe Ghosh beats ABVP candidate for JNUSU president's post | LIVE

SFI's Aishe Ghosh has been elected as Jawahar Lal Nehru University Student Union president.

Aishe Ghosh bagged 2,313 votes. SFI candidate defeat.

In news just coming in, Left backed candidates have registered thumping victory beating ABVP. Saket Moon has been elected as the new Vice-President of JNUSU. He got 3,365 votes. 

Satish Chandra Yadav has been elected as General Secretary.

Mohammed Danish won for the post of Joint Secretary. 

The results were announced after the Delhi High Court vacated its stay on the declaration. 

More than 20 houses were damaged in landslides triggered by rain in Sikkim. 

The landslides occurred at Tsong area in Yuksam-

Tashiding region in West Sikkim district on Monday.

The new Motor Vehicles Act has got support from public and people across party lines, Union Road and Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari has said. 

Those who were unhappy with fines have also agreed. Fines are collected by states, there is no issue of revenue collection by Centre. States can vary fines from Rs 500-5000. - Nitin Gadkari 

Overwhelming response to Air India Asset Holding Limited (AIAHL) maiden bonds issue yields Rs 7000 cr. Issue was oversubscribed 20.83 times. Bids worth Rs 20,830 cr for the bonds make it the highest ever in the yield-based bond market of BSE’s history.

SBI Capital Markets Ltd were advisors to AIAHL in its maiden bond. 

Air India puts off roaster the pilot who operated AI-669 Bhubaneshwar- Mumbai flight yesterday, in connection with runway incursion incident at Mumbai.

India's foreign minister says "Pakistan occupied Kashmir" is part of India, expect one day will have physical jurisdiction over it

Dormant routes have been used by the Pakistani army to infiltrate nearly 60 terrorists since the abrogation of Jammu and Kashmir's special status, officials said on Tuesday.

This assessment comes amid intelligence inputs that there has been a surge in infiltration from across the border through higher reaches north Kashmir and Poonch and Rajouri of Jammu region.

• World shares were mixed on Tuesday and oil prices eased back pending updates on restoring output at a Saudi Aramco oil processing plant damaged by an attack over the weekend.
• Chinese benchmarks led declines in Asia after the credit ratings agency Moody's downgraded Hong Kong, citing its recent political turmoil.
• Germany's DAX lost 0.2% to 12,358.45 while the CAC 40 in Paris added 0.1% to 5,606.73. The FTSE 100 in Britain climbed 0.2% to 7,339.26. On Wall Street, the future contracts for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 both lost 0.1%.

Ahead of UN meeting, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says ‘there will be no talks with the US at any level’

Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets his mother Heeraben Modi at her residence, in Gujarat's Gandhinagar. 

PM Modi meets his mother in Gandhinagar

• EPFO had approved an interest rate of 8.65% for 2018-19
• This is higher than 8.55% interest rate fixed for 2017-18

...ahead of the festival season, over 6 crore EPFO subscribers would get 8.65 per cent interest for 2018-19

PTI quoted Labour Minister Santosh Gangwar.

Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Tuesday that all options are open with the ministry for closure or merger of three public sector undertakings - MMTC, STC and PEC.

• When asked whether the government is considering to shut or merge these units, Goyal said: "All options are open".
• He said gradually the purpose of these companies is getting eroded and they are no more canalising agencies.
• "It is not the government's business to be in the business," he told reporters here at the sidelines of a CII function.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will fly in the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas, in Bengaluru on September 19.

Cong proves yet again it is an unreliable party, Mayawati said on the defection of BSP MLAs in Rajasthan. In a big jolt to Mayawati's Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) in Rajasthan, all of its six MLAs have joined the Congress. With this merger, the Congress now has 106 seats in the 200-seated Assembly.

In a surprising move, the state Assembly was opened at 10.30 p.m. on Monday for the six MLAs who submitted their letter to Assembly speaker C.P. Joshi.

Former Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar failed to appear before the CBI on Tuesday morning in connection with the Saradha ponzi scam case, increasing the possibility of his arrest by the agency during the day, sources said.

They said Kumar did not appear for questioning twice in spite of CBI notices after the Kolkata High Court withdrew the protection given to him from arrest on Friday.

The agency had given him notice to appear at 10 am but he failed to turn up, they said.

CBI has started proceeding on "other options" available to it under the law, they said.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday greeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his 69th birthday.

"Sources of immense energy, the most popular, hard working, respected Prime Minister Narendra Modi," he tweeted.

"I wish you a long life and good health."

 A State Bank of India (SBI) field officer was found shot dead at his home in Uttar Pradesh Bijnore district.

According to reports, the victim, Chaitanya, had been transferred to Bijnore from Gorakhpur about two months ago. He was currently posted at the SBI's Sahanpur branch in Najibabad.

The murder came to light after the house owner knocked on the door and found the flat locked from inside. He immediately called the police.

Chaitanya was shot in the head with a licensed pistol. The house was locked from the inside and his body was lying in a pool of blood in the washroom, with the pistol near his legs, the police said.

 In a big jolt to Mayawati's Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) in Rajasthan, all of its six MLAs have joined the Congress.

With this merger, the Congress now has 106 seats in the Assembly.

While reacting to the development that took place on Monday night, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state president Satish Punia said: "This development shows Ashok Gehlot's insecurity. Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot has questioned him on the law and order situation."

US President Donald Trump on Monday said he has no meeting scheduled with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York later this month.

"I have no meeting scheduled (with Rouhani). I know they (Iranians) want to meet," Trump told reporters at the White House.

"I know they are not doing well as a country. Iran has got a lot of problems right now.. but two and half to three years ago they were causing a lot of trouble... and we'll see what happens," he said.

Union Ministers and senior BJP leaders on Tuesday took to social media to extend their warm wishes to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his 69th birthday.