A look at the headlines right now:
- PV Sindhu to get Rs 1 crore from the Telangana government after clinching Olympics silver: The 21-year-old shuttler will also receive a BMW, and Rs 50 lakh each from the Badminton Association of India and the Madhya Pradesh government.
- Low fares help passenger traffic on domestic flights grow by 26% in July: While 67.62 lakh people took flights within India in the same month last year, it grew to 85.08 lakh in 2016.
- Donald Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort quits two months after joining: The veteran Republican adviser had been facing scrutiny for his links with Russia and former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
- Restrict ambulance services at night, treat patients away from Srinagar, Kashmir officials tell hospitals: The announcement came a day after a man driving an emergency response vehicle was pumped full of pellets by CRPF officials.
- Uber driver arrested in Mumbai for allegedly molesting Italian passenger: The police acted after a Facebook post by the woman went viral.
- Two reports of transgression by Chinese army in Arunachal Pradesh in one month, says Kiren Rijiju: The minister of state for home clarified that it was not an incursion as the Chinese army just crossed the “perceived area along the Line of Actual Control’.
- Pokémon GO developer Niantic Labs begins issuing permanent bans to cheaters: The company said its aim for the app was to ‘provide a fair, fun and legitimate game experience for all players’.
- CBI takes over investigation into Bulandshahr gangrapes on Allahabad High Court's orders: The agency filed a case of gangrape, kidnapping and dacoity under the Indian Penal Code as well as the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.
- Twitter suspended 2.35 lakh accounts in the past six months for promoting terrorism: The micro-blogging site took down the profiles for ‘violating policies’, emphasising that there was no ‘magic algorithm’ to identify such content.
- DMK challenges suspension of its MLAs from Tamil Nadu Assembly in high court: Advocates have also asked the court to quash Section 121 of the legislative assembly rules that allows legislators to be suspended for an entire session.
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