The big news: Review committee unanimously votes to cut RBI repo rate, and nine other top stories
AAP's Kapil Mishra asked Mehbooba Mufti whether she considered Burhan Wani a terrorist, and Congress' Sanjay Nirupam said the Army's surgical strikes were fake.
A look at the headlines right now:
- Monetary Policy Committee cuts RBI's key repo rate to 6.25%: This is the first time the six-member panel decided the figure, which all members voted to reduce.
- Tell us if you believe Burhan Wani was a terrorist, AAP leader Kapil Mishra asks Mehbooba Mufti: He questioned the Kashmir chief minister at an event on tourism in Delhi, after which she replied saying no tourist had ever been harmed in her state.
- Sanjay Nirupam says surgical strikes were fake, Congress disagrees with party leader: BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra accused him of questioning the Indian Army's credibility.
- People want to know about Jayalalithaa's health, Madras High Court tells Tamil Nadu government: The court asked for details of the chief minister's condition after a social activist filed a petition seeking information from the state.
- BCCI likely to call off ongoing India-New Zealand series: Other home series may also be cancelled, though the Lodha panel contradicted reports and said there is 'no question' of this happening.
- UK considering tighter laws on immigration, announces Home Secretary Amber Rudd: The new rules are likely to make it harder for Indians to work and study in Britain.
- Release 2,000 cusecs of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu from Oct 7 to 18, Supreme Court tells Karnataka: The top court also stayed its earlier direction to the Centre to set up a Cauvery Management Board, after Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi challenged the order.
- BJP's Roopa Ganguly nominated for Rajya Sabha seat vacated by former MP Navjot Singh Sidhu: The actor-turned-politician had lost the first election she had contested as a candidate for the party in the West Bengal Assembly polls in April.
- Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to three British scientists for studies in 'exotic matter': David Thouless from the University of Washington, F Duncan Haldane from Princeton University and Michael Kosterlitz from Brown University are the winners.
- Maria Sharapova's two-year ban for doping reduced to 15 months: The former World No 1 in tennis had approached the Court of Arbitration for Sport after the International Tennis Federation had suspended her.
