A look at the headlines right now:
- Farmers from Nashik reach Mumbai, to protest outside Maharashtra Assembly from Monday: Their demands include a complete waiver of loans and electricity bills and better safeguards.
- Xi Jinping can remain China’s president for life as Parliament abolishes term limit: The Great Hall of the People passed a constitutional amendment removing the clause that restricted the president’s tenure to two consecutive terms.
- Voter turnout in Bihar’s Araria, Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur Lok Sabha seats nears 40% in bye-polls: Bye-elections are also being held in Uttar Pradesh’s Phulpur constituency and in the Jehanabad and Bhabua Assembly seats in Bihar.
- Vedas could help fight climate change, says PM Narendra Modi at first meet of global solar alliance: The prime minister also suggested less risky financial schemes to increase the contribution of solar power in providing electricity.
- People claim they were lured into attending Ravi Shankar’s Srinagar event with false promises: Some said they didn’t know the spiritual leader would be addressing the function, claiming they were promised cricketing kits and sewing machines.
- ‘We have completely forgiven our father’s killers,’ says Rahul Gandhi: The Congress president also accepted that the party lost the 2014 General Elections because of internal fighting and corruption.
- Two doctors, two nurses suspended after video shows accident victim using severed leg as pillow: The Uttar Pradesh government has set up a four-member committee to look into the case.
- Panel of retired judges to investigate anti-Muslim violence in Sri Lanka’s Kandy: Authorities lifted the curfew in the district, but security will remain heightened till normalcy returns in the region.
- Shoe thrown at former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Lahore: The ousted leader was attacked just as he took to the podium to address an event at the Jamia Naeemia university.
- In one day, CBI transfers 20 officers from special unit investigating Vyapam scam, says Times of India report: The Congress questioned the move and called for the branch to be shut down.
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