A look at the headlines right now:
- Google gives Delhi Police email IDs from which CBSE chief received news of paper leak: The Jharkhand Police arrested three individuals and nine minors in connection with the case.
- BR Ambedkar’s statue vandalised in Allahabad; BSP, Samajwadi Party leaders demand action: The police have registered an FIR and an investigation has begun.
- FIR registered against BJP MP Pralhad Joshi in Karnataka for alleged communal remark: The Dharwad legislator reportedly said that several mosques in Sadar Sofa area of Hubballi ‘illegally stored weapons’.
- SpiceJet cabin crew allege that security personnel strip-searched them, airline denies it: The air carrier said it had conducted random ‘pat-down searches’ on March 28 and March 29 to ensure that no company goods or money was stolen.
- Former University of Hyderabad students arrested for allegedly planning to kill vice chancellor: Ankala Prudhviraj and Chandan Kumar Misra believed that killing Appa Rao Podile would draw students in large numbers to join the CPI (Maoist), the police said.
- Subramanian Swamy claims Centre’s proposal to sell Air India could be ‘another scam in the making’: The BJP leader said he would file a criminal law complaint if he found any faults in the divestment process.
- Enforcement Directorate attaches assets of main accused in Bihar topper scam: This is the first attachment in the case in which the investigating agency has booked eight people.
- MNREGA rates lower than minimum wage in 29 states, Union Territories, says rights group: The NREGA Sangharsh Morcha demanded that the revised wage rate for 2018-’19 be implemented immediately.
- Protests erupt in California after private autopsy shows police shot black man in his back: The Sacramento Police had claimed that Stephon Clark advanced towards them in a menacing way before the shooting began.
- Suspected militants shoot dead special police officer in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama: Mohammad Ashraf was a former militant who was now posted in Srinagar.
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