A look at the headlines right now:
- Lalu Yadav criticises AIIMS for discharging him: The hospital said Yadav’s condition had ‘improved significantly’.
- At least 25 killed, several injured in two back-to-back explosions in Kabul: An AFP photographer was among four journalists killed in the second blast.
- BJP’s Kavinder Gupta sworn in as Jammu and Kashmir deputy chief minister: Nirmal Singh resigned from the post a day before a Cabinet reshuffle.
- Bihar Police arrest four boys after video shows girl being stripped, dragged in Jehanabad: The police are still looking for the others seen in the video, also believed to be teenagers.
- Meerut man accused of cow slaughter, dies in custody, three police personnel booked for murder: The Gujjar community has threatened protests across Uttar Pradesh if authorities do not meet the demands of the man’s family.
- Six-year-old girl, who was allegedly raped in Odisha, dies after week-long struggle: She suffered a cardiac arrest, said the medical superintendent at Cuttack’s SCB Medical College and Hospital.
- Three CRPF personnel suspended after woman alleges one of them raped her in Jammu: The complainant lodged a police complaint on Saturday after a video of the incident was reportedly circulated on social media.
- UK home secretary Amber Rudd quits, says she inadvertently misled MPs about deportation targets: Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott alleged that Prime Minister Theresa May was the ‘architect of this crisis’.
- Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani says mythological sage Narad had as much information as Google: He was speaking at an event organised by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s Vishwa Samvad Kendra in Ahmedabad.
- Trinamool Congress wins 34% of West Bengal panchayat seats uncontested: The party had a walkover in 20,076 of the 58,692 seats.
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