A look at the headlines right now:
- New India is about ‘EPI – Every Person is Important’, not VIPs, says Narendra Modi on Mann ki Baat: The prime minister urged the youth to lessen the use of technology, get out of their comfort zone and gain new experiences.
- Centre trying to impose Hindi by dubbing regional films, says DMK president MK Stalin: Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman dismissed the allegations.
- Madhya Pradesh minister gifts wooden bats to 700 brides to beat husbands if they turn alcoholic: Gopal Bhargava, however, advised the women to first try to talk their partners out of the habit.
- Afghan warlord appeals for peace after 20 years in exile: Often called the ‘Butcher of Kabul’, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar urged the Taliban to end the ‘meaningless and unholy war’ in the country.
- Centre’s ‘Test and Treat’ HIV policy will ‘end the AIDS epidemic’ in India by 2030, says UN group: Health Minister JP Nadda had said the government was working on a national plan to rid the country of the disease in the next seven years.
- Journalist accused of abetting soldier’s suicide gets anticipatory bail: The Bombay High Court also expressed doubts about whether the case would merit allegations under the Official Secrets Act.
- Russian Police detain protestors urging Vladimi Putin to not run for president again: At least 1,500 people in Moscow submitted a petition asking him to not participate in the elections next year.
- Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia gets clean chit from the Election Commission in office of profit case: The poll panel said it had found no merit in the plea that had sought the AAP leader’s disqualification as a legislator.
- Turkey blocks Wikipedia after accusing it of running a ‘smear campaign’: Wikimedia Foundation, which supports the online encyclopaedia, said it was seeking judicial review of the decision.
- Section 144 imposed in Khammam, Telangana, a day after chilli farmers vandalise market yard: Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has alleged that Opposition leaders had organised the protest as part of a political conspiracy.
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