A look at the headlines right now:
- Two convicts given life term by special NIA court in 2007 Ajmer blasts case: Devendra Gupta and Bhavesh Patel had earlier been asked to pay a fine of Rs 1 lakh each.
- Meat shops set on fire in UP’s Hathras even as Yogi Adityanath orders closure of slaughterhouses: The establishments’ owners, who are Muslims, have not filed a police complaint yet.
- Rajya Sabha passes Bill that ensures free treatment to anyone living with HIV or AIDS: Governments will have to provide free anti-retroviral therapy to patients and they cannot be discriminated against for jobs or education.
- Indian police helped Scotland Yard hack into email accounts of activists, claims whistleblower: The information was then passed on to the Metropolitan Police, who illegally spied on them till as late as 2016.
- Show-cause notices served to protesting doctors in Maharashtra, JJ Hospital starts expulsion process: State minister Girish Mahajan said the protesting doctors will face six months’ expulsion if they do not resume work by 8 pm.
- SC adjourns hearing plea against clean chit to Advani and others till tomorrow in Babri Masjid demolition case: The bench had earlier hinted that it might revive conspiracy charges against the senior BJP leaders in connection with the case.
- Apple products go red to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS in Africa: New iPad will measure 9.7 inches and it will start from $329.
- India slips one position to 131 on Human Development Index: Sri Lanka and Bangladesh fared better on the report prepared by the United Nations.
- Several institutes in UGC’s list of fake universities do not exist, say states: The list has colleges which have shut shop two decades ago or operate from places that do not exist.
- Bengaluru woman booked for ‘objectionable’, ‘defamatory’ Facebook posts about Yogi Adityanath: BJP’s Yuva Morcha members had filed a complaint against her accusing her of sharing “obscene, morphed and tampered” images of the newly appointed UP CM.
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