The Biggest Stories of September 04, 2016

The first attempt to reach out personally to Kashmiri separatists was made today by individual opposition members of parliament, who had gone to Kashmir as part of the all-party delegation but were turned away at every place; a senior Supreme Court judge, who boycotted a meeting of the collegium or the group of senior-most judges that decides on judicial appointments on Thursday, has told NDTV that he will not attend the collegium meetings till there is more transparency in the system; Keith Vaz, Britain's longest serving Indian-origin lawmaker, has announced that he will step down after he was embroiled in a sex scandal; all this and more in our news wrap of the day.