With the opposition plotting a united attack on the government over the shock decision to scrap Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 notes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi this evening met with BJP parliamentarians and told them "the country is with the government"; Leaders of Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress shook hands with those of arch rival CPM as they met to discuss a united opposition response in parliament and outside to the government's ban on 500 and 1000 rupee notes and its impact on people; In a rare admission of casualties, the Pakistani army has today said that seven of its soldiers were killed by Indian shelling overnight; all this and more in our news wrap of the day.