A look at the headlines right now:
- MPs cannot take trains every time they have to travel, says Sumitra Mahajan after Shiv Sena legislator row: Shiv Sena leader Anandrao Adsul said Kapil Sharma had recently misbehaved with airline staff on his flight to Australia, but no action was taken against him.
- India need 87 runs to win series after dismissing Australia for 137: Ravindra Jadeja and Wriddhiman Saha putting up a crucial seventh-wicket partnership of 96 to give India the lead.
- Lok Sabha passes Mental Healthcare Bill 2016, which decriminalises suicide: The legislation seeks to give patients access to affordable treatment and insurance.
- Arun Jaitley introduces four GST Bills in Lok Sabha: The government has set the maximum GST rate at 40% and put in provisions for an anti-profiteering authority and arrests for evading taxes
- Madras High Court wants the man who claimed to be Jayalalithaa’s son arrested: Krishnamoorthy, who is the son of one Vasanthamani, had put old stamps on documents to make them look authentic, a police report said.
- AAP legislator joins BJP weeks before Delhi civic polls, says he ‘was feeling suffocated’: Ved Prakash said the Arvind Kejriwal-led party had failed to keep its poll promises.
- Kolkata’s Salt Lake Stadium will host the Fifa Under-17 World Cup final: The tournament is set to begin on October 6 with the final on October 28.
- Meat sellers begin indefinite strike against crackdown on illegal slaughterhouses in Uttar Pradesh: Several butcher shops and abattoirs have complained that they are being targeted under the new dispensation.
- Post merger, SBI may reduce workforce by 10% over the next two years, says top official: The bank’s managing director said several employees would be offered the voluntary retirement scheme, and that dismissals were not an option.
- Suspected militants attack PDP minister’s house in Anantnag, snatch weapons from guards in Kashmir: Two policemen were injured after the armed men resorted to heavy firing at the entrance to Syed Farooq Andrabi’s ancestral home.
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