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8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers across the country, says Lebanon's health minister.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting the US from September 21 to 23, according to the Ministry of External Affairs. In New York, PM Modi will address a gathering of Indian community on September 22, said MEA.

A Delhi court on Tuesday dismissed AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal's two petitions challenging the summons issued to him on complaints filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the money laundering case related to the alleged excise scam. Special Judge Rakesh Syal dismissed the revision petition filed by Kejriwal, saying there was sufficient ground to proceed against him. Kejriwal had moved the sessions court against an order passed by a magisterial court directing him to appear before it on the ED's complaint. The outgoing Delhi chief minister had challenged the summons issued by the magisterial court after taking cognisance of two complaints filed by the ED over avoidance of summons issued to him. The ED had filed complaints before the magisterial court seeking prosecution of Kejriwal for skipping multiple summonses issued to him in the case linked to the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy.

Delhi minister Atishi will succeed as Arvind Kejriwal as chief minister after he formally resigned from the post after a meeting with Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena this afternoon. The decision to choose Atishi was taken by AAP MLAs at a meeting at Kejriwal's residence. Kejriwal had announced his decision to resign from the post of chief minister on Sunday.  Kejriwal also sought polls in the national capital in November. Kejriwal had stated  that he will only sit on the CM's chair when people give him a "certificate of honesty". The AAP supremo had said he would become chief minister and Manish Sisodia his deputy "only when people say we are honest". On Monday, the party held a series of meetings as Kejriwal sought feedback from members of the political affairs committee, the party's highest decision-making body, on his successor in one-on-one meetings at his official residence. He had met senior leaders, including former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia and Rajya Sabha member Raghav Chadha, about the party's choice for chief minister. 

India's exports decline by 9.3 per cent to $34.71 billion in August; imports rose by 3.3 per cent to $64.36 billion in the month over year-ago period.

The Supreme Court today stopped bulldozer demolition across India until October 1 without its permission, and unless the demolitions are on public roads, water bodies, railway lines. Also, the  court ruled that it would formulate directives on when and how properties can be demolished under the municipal laws of the land.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today claimed that the Congress and its "ecosystem" was angry with him for taking part in Ganesh Puja. Addressing a rally in Bhubaneswar, PM Modi made the comment in an apparent reference to the criticism by the opposition parties for participating in Ganesh Puja rituals at the residence of CJI D Y Chandrachud. "Ganesh Utsav is not just a festival of faith for our country. It played a very important role in the freedom movement," he said.

Atishi holds several portfolios, including finance, education and PWD. AAP unanimously agreed to back the minister today after Kejriwal proposed her name as his successor in a meeting of the party's legislators. 

Against the backdrop of ongoing protests by junior doctors in the city, the Supreme Court on Tuesday will resume its suo motu hearing over the alleged rape and murder of a postgraduate doctor inside RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in the city on August 9. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which which took over the case from Kolkata Police as per the Calcutta High Court's instructions, is set to present a confidential progress report to the Supreme Court. In addition to the rape and murder, the probe agency is also investigating former principal of RG Kar Sandip Ghosh and others in relation to the crime and alleged financial irregularities in the hospital under their watch.

West Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar demanded the resignation of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. In a self-made video, Majumdar said that his party will continue its fight to fulfil the demand of the public. "The people of Bengal have lost faith in the Chief Minister, which is why BJP is demanding that Mamata Banerjee resign. She herself had said that if the public wants, she will resign, so BJP will continue its fight for the public's demand that Mamata Banerjee should resign," BJP president Sukant Majumdar said.

Four persons, including a three-year-old girl and a woman, were killed in a sudden explosion at a firecracker godown-cum-factory in Uttar Pradesh's Firozabad district, police said on Tuesday. Six persons were injured in the incident, which took place in the factory located in the Naushera area under Shikohabad police station limits on Monday night, a senior police official said. The bodies of the deceased have been sent for postmortem and the injured have been hospitalised, the official said.