A look at the headlines right now:

  1. Supreme Court reduces Tamil Nadu’s share of Cauvery water, increases that of Karnataka: The extra water for Karnataka is to meet the drinking needs of Bengaluru, the top court said.
  2. CBI asks Interpol to help locate jewellery designer Nirav Modi: It has requested the international agency to issue a diffusion notice, which can be used to request the arrest or location of a person.
  3. Centre plans to revise base year for GDP and inflation calculations: The government currently uses 2011-’12 as the base year to calculate economic output, but wants to change it to 2017-’18.  
  4. Congress says ‘huge cash crunch’ is the reason it has only 18 candidates in Nagaland elections: The party had initially announced 23 candidates for the 60-seat Assembly, but five of them withdrew their nominations.  
  5. Prasar Bharati blocks Centre’s appointments proposal, says it could hurt its autonomy, say reports: The public broadcaster also dropped the resolution to appoint two journalists to head its news operations as the proposed salaries were ‘too exorbitant’.
  6. Security forces battle militants in Baramulla, no casualties reported: The police said a routine cordon and search operation turned into a gunbattle after militants started shooting at personnel.
  7. US Senate rejects proposals to protect Dreamers, Trump-backed plan gets only 39 votes: The Republicans and Democrats are unable to reach a consensus on the protection for Dreamers – the country’s 1.8 million young undocumented immigrants. 
  8. West Bengal says schools need not air Modi’s speech on exam stress: The HRD ministry had asked all institutes across the country to live-stream the prime minister’s speech on how to beat exam stress on Friday.
  9. Gurugram hospital inquiry team blames 3 after pregnant woman was denied entry for not having Aadhaar: The hospital has issued show-cause notices to the emergency medical technician, a doctor and a nurse.
  10. Real journalist should cover government’s development activities, says NIA: Kashmiri photojournalist Kamran Yusuf was arrested in 2017 for alleged involvement in stone-pelting incidents.