A look at the headlines right now:

  1. Humans make mistakes, but Modi thinks he is an incarnation of god, says Rahul Gandhi at Congress meet: Manmohan Singh also took on Narendra Modi at the event, and said the PM makes ‘tall claims’.
  2. Three doctors from AIIMS killed, 4 injured in accident on Yamuna Expressway: The doctors were travelling from New Delhi to Agra when their car crashed into a truck while trying to overtake it near Mathura.
  3. Five civilians killed in cross border shelling in Jammu and Kashmir’s Mendhar sector: A police official said Army troops were retaliating appropriately to the attack.
  4. Kerala MLA’s son files complaint after an MP’s wife makes sexual harassment claims in her memoir: Kottayam MP Jose K Mani’s wife Nisha Jose alleged that a politician’s son had harassed her in a train. Shone George has accused her of defaming him.
  5. Statue of Jawaharlal Nehru defaced in West Bengal’s Burdwan district: The Congress and the Trinamool Congress have blamed BJP workers for the act. 
  6. Economist Paul Krugman warns India of mass unemployment if manufacturing sector does not grow: The Nobel laureate noted that the country does not yet have the jobs essential to sustain the projected growth in demography.
  7. Islamabad must do more against terrorist groups, US Vice President Mike Pence tells Pakistan PM: Shahid Khaqan Abbasi met the American leader in the US Naval Observatory in Washington, DC, on March 16.
  8. Pakistan to skip World Trade Organisation meeting in New Delhi amid diplomatic standoff: Islamabad’s envoy to India Sohail Mahmood would not return to India till the problem was resolved, reports said.  
  9. 14 killed after bus falls off bridge in Bihar’s Sitamarhi district: The accident occurred when the bus attempted to overtake a vehicle, the police said.
  10. Three arrested for beating to death 60-year-old man in fight over water in New Delhi’s Wazirpur area: The police have also detained a minor in connection with the incident.