A team of ED officials on Wednesday reached the Tihar Jail to question former Union finance minister P Chidambaram in the INX Media money laundering case, officials said. They said the Enforcement Directorate (ED) investigating team is following the procedure after a local court on Tuesday allowed the central agency to interrogate the senior Congress leader in this case.

Uttar Pradesh Police terminated the services of 25,000 home guards of the police department in the state. The Home Guard Minister Chetan Chauhan clarified that no official letter had been received from the Home Department in this regard. Mr Chauhan said that due to budget constraints, the number of work days will be less but the service of home guards won't be terminated.

Putting the scrapping of Article 370, which granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir, on top of its election pitch ahead of the assembly polls, the BJP appears to be well-positioned to retain and perhaps even strengthen its fortress in northern Haryana which propelled it to power for the first time in the state in 2014.