A look at the headlines right now:
- Walmart acquires 77% stake in Flipkart for nearly $16 billion: The deal values the Indian e-commerce firm at $20.8 billion.
- ‘Congress making thousands of fake voter IDs to win polls,’ claims Narendra Modi in Karnataka: Wednesday is the last day for campaigning for the Assembly elections.
- Donald Trump pulls US out of Iran nuclear deal: Barack Obama, who had signed the pact in 2015, said the decision was misguided, while Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the US had made a mistake.
- Taj Mahal infested with insects, says Supreme Court in rebuke to ASI: The Centre said it was considering the court’s suggestion to appoint international experts to assess the damage to the monument and restore it.
- Earthquake in northern India, tremors felt in Delhi, NCR: The epicentre of the 6.2-magnitude earthquake was 36 km northwest of Ishkashim in Tajikistan.
- There is no tension between India and China, says Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman: But she parried questions on the presence of the Chinese Navy in the ocean.
- Tension at Jamia Millia Islamia after rally against Jinnah: Students alleged that most of the protestors were outsiders and demanded that the administration file a police complaint in the matter.
- Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo kills 17: But the World Health Organization said only two samples taken from five patients had tested positive.
- Dalit girl set on fire in Azamgarh for refusing to share her phone number: The 16-year-old girl was taken to a hospital in Varanasi with more than 80% burns.
- Two arrested for duping people on pretext of testing imaginary device for NASA: The father and son asked the victims to pay for the testing, so that they could earn huge profits when they would sell device to NASA.
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