The Biggest Stories of October 3, 2016

National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and his Pakistani counterpart Nasir Janjua have spoken on the phone as tension between the two countries runs high after the terror attack in Uri and the Indian Army's surgical strikes across the Line of Control against terrorists waiting to sneak into India; After Karnataka was asked by the Supreme Court to explain its repeated defiance of orders, it has said that it will release some water from the River Cauvery to neighbouring Tamil Nadu tonight; Two days before top bureaucrat BK Bansal committed suicide in his Delhi home, his son, Yogesh, disclosed to tax officers that he had nearly Rs 2.4 crore of black money; Vikas Yadav and his cousin Vishal, convicted for the abduction and murder of 25-year-old Nitish Katara in 2002, will serve 25 years in prison each, the Supreme Court ruled today.