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The Supreme Court has set up a five-judge constitution bench to hear the Ayodhya case.The bench will be headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi and will include JusticeSA Bobde, Justice NV Ramana, Justice UU Lalit, Justice DY Chandrachud.

The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019 has been passed in the Parliament on Tuesday after a discussion regarding variousclauses of the Bill.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has appointed Nandan Nilekani, co-founder of Infosys, as the chairman of the committee to assess digitisation of payments in India.

The Taliban on Tuesday cancelled the planned peace talks with the US officials in Qatar over an agenda disagreement.The meeting was cancelled even after the changein thevenue of the meet on the demands of theTaliban. The Taliban had earlier demanded a shift in the venue of the talks to Qatar.

German police said Tuesday they have arrested a 20-year-old suspect in the case ofprivate data stolen from hundreds of politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, and published online.