The big news: Protests against demonetisation affect life in states, and nine other top stories
In other headlines, I-T officials said declarants must pay the first tax instalment by November 30, and a Khalistan leader was caught a day after he fled jail.
A look at the headlines right now:
- Opposition parties stage nationwide protests against demonetisation, services hit in a few states: The Congress, which is leading the agitation, clarified that this was not a ‘Bharat bandh’.
- Pay first tax instalment under declaration scheme by November 30, I-T department tells citizens: Declarants will have to pay off the entire amount by September 30, 2017.
- Khalistan leader Harminder Singh Mintoo arrested by Delhi Police a day after fleeing from Nabha jail: The armed men who had broken into the prison had reportedly not intended to free the insurgent group leader.
- Security forces exchange fire with militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Handwara: The encounter began at dawn after the Army was tipped off about the presence of infiltrators in the area.
- Trump will do to Muslims what ‘Hitler did to the Jews’, letters to California mosques say: The Council on American-Islamic Relations called on investigators to treat the mail as a ‘hate-motivated incident’.
- Don’t arrest on charges of radicalisation without proof, Rajnath Singh tells top police officers: The home minister, while addressing a conference with the force in Hyderabad, said he did not believe the Islamic State group was a threat to India.
- Earthquake of 5.5 magnitude hits Nepal, no casualties reported: Police said that it could take time for reports on injuries or damage to come in as the strong tremors were felt in remote villages.
- Indian IT firms rush to hire in the US fearing a tighter H1-B visa regime under Donald Trump: Companies such as Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys and Wipro are among the most frequent users of the programme.
- How did BJP’s Mahesh Sharma pay his daughter’s wedding bills, asks Arvind Kejriwal: However, Sharma said that it was his son who was getting married and that all the payments were made through his bank.
- Uber looking to make India regional operations hub, planning new features: The company’s South Asia president Amit Jain said that it would not expand beyond the 29 cities in which it currently operates.