A look at the headlines right now:
- Actor Sridevi cremated with state honours in Mumbai: Fans, Bollywood celebrities attended a condolence meet held in her memory.
- Congress calls Karti Chidambaram’s arrest a diversionary tactic: The CBI produced the son of former Finance Minister P Chidambaram in a Delhi court after arresting him in Chennai earlier in the day.
- Congress leads in MP’s Mungaoli and Kolaras bye-elections, Biju Janata Dal wins Odisha’s Bijepur: In Madhya Pradesh, it is a direct fight between the Congress and the BJP.
- Kanchi mutt Sankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati dies at 82: The cause of death is not yet known.
- I have a business to take care of outside India, cannot return, Nirav Modi tells CBI: The investigating agency told him that the Indian High Commission in the country he is currently in would make his travel arrangements.
- India’s GDP growth rises from 6.3% to 7.2% for the third quarter of 2017: The government also revised its growth forecast for the 2017-’18 financial year to 6.6% from its previous prediction of 6.5%.
- MEA says India had no hand in inviting Khalistani militant to dinner with Justin Trudeau: The Canadian prime minister appeared to agree with his Opposition that ‘factions within the Indian government’ were behind the Jaspal Atwal debacle.
- Suspended BJP leader Manoj Baitha, accused in hit-and-run case, surrenders: He allegedly rammed his SUV into students outside a government school in Muzaffarpur last week, killing nine of them.
- Former Bihar CM and Hindustani Awam Morcha leader Jitan Ram Manjhi quits NDA, joins Grand Alliance: The former CM had threatened to leave the NDA if his party was not granted a Rajya Sabha seat.
- Maldives says it turned down India’s invitation for naval exercises because of an emergency at home: Indian Navy Chief Sunil Lanba had said that Maldives will not be participating in Milan, a biennial regional naval exercise.
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