Breaking: Army Chief General Bipin Rawat Visits Badrinath Temple

Hello and welcome to News Nation’s live blog today. We bring you news updates from India and around the world. Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will be flying in indigenously built light combat aircraft (LCA) Tejas from the HAL airport in Bengaluru today. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a rally in Nashik on the concluding day of chief minister Devendra Fadnavis' 'Mahajanadesh Yatra'. Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale will brief media regarding PM Modi’s upcoming US visit. Transport bodies are observing one-day token strike against amended motor vehicles act provisions in Delhi-NCR today.