A look at the headlines right now:

  1. Truth has triumphed, says Arvind Kejriwal after Delhi High Court reinstates 20 AAP legislators: The chief minister’s media advisor, Nagender Sharma, said the court order was a ‘tight slap on biased’ Election Commission.  
  2. Jaitley wins in Uttar Pradesh, Congress’ Abhishek Singhvi bags West Bengal seat in Rajya Sabha elections: Counting began in Uttar Pradesh two hours after it started in the other states.  
  3. Gunman kills at least one at a shopping mall, holds several people hostage in France: Prosecutors said the gunman had pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State group.  
  4. Karnataka grants minority status to Lingayat community: This comes days after the Siddaramaiah government accepted a panel’s recommendation to grant the group the status of a separate religion.
  5. CBI books Deccan Chronicle Holdings for allegedly cheating United India Insurance of Rs 30.5 crore: The investigating agency accused two officials at the insurance firm of misusing their roles as government servants to participate in the conspiracy.  
  6. CBI arrests promoters, directors of Totem Infrastructure for allegedly cheating Union Bank of India: The agency had filed a case against the firm on Thursday.  
  7. Delhi Police stop JNU students, teachers marching to Parliament to protest varsity’s policies: The security personnel resorted to baton charge and fired water cannons at the demonstrators, injuring many of them.
  8. Publicise steps being taken to check if A320neo aircraft engines are safe, Bombay HC tells DGCA: The bench told the regulatory body that grounding a few aircraft and following the directives of the European Air Safety Authority were not enough.
  9. Tender for 3,19,400 anti-rodent tablets doesn’t mean there were that many rats, says Maharashtra PWD: The Public Works Department said two tenders were issued for the pest control exercise.
  10. Soumyajit Ghosh dropped from India’s Table Tennis squad for Commonwealth Games, suspended: The omission comes a day after he was accused of rape by a teenager in Kolkata.