Hello and welcome to News Nation’s live blog. We bring you news updates from India and around the world. Foreign minister-level meeting of the SAARC nations will be held in New York in the sideline of UN General Assembly meeting. The Delhi High Court will hear the plea by Karnataka Congress leader D K Shivakumar seeking copy of his statements recorded by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case. Former Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar will appear before CBI CGO complex office, New Delhi. Former India captain Rahul Dravid would depose before BCCI Ethics Officer D K Jain on Thursday to explain the conflict of interest allegations against him. CBI is conducting searches at the residence and office of Bengaluru's forme police commissioner Alok Kumar, in connection with Karnataka phone tapping case.