A look at the headlines right now:

  1. MPs cannot take trains every time they have to travel, says Sumitra Mahajan after Shiv Sena legislator row: Shiv Sena leader Anandrao Adsul said Kapil Sharma had recently misbehaved with airline staff on his flight to Australia, but no action was taken against him.
  2. India need 87 runs to win series after dismissing Australia for 137: Ravindra Jadeja and Wriddhiman Saha putting up a crucial seventh-wicket partnership of 96 to give India the lead.
  3. Lok Sabha passes Mental Healthcare Bill 2016, which decriminalises suicide: The legislation seeks to give patients access to affordable treatment and insurance.
  4. Arun Jaitley introduces four GST Bills in Lok Sabha: The government has set the maximum GST rate at 40% and put in provisions for an anti-profiteering authority and arrests for evading taxes
  5. Madras High Court wants the man who claimed to be Jayalalithaa’s son arrested: Krishnamoorthy, who is the son of one Vasanthamani, had put old stamps on documents to make them look authentic, a police report said.
  6. AAP legislator joins BJP weeks before Delhi civic polls, says he ‘was feeling suffocated’: Ved Prakash said the Arvind Kejriwal-led party had failed to keep its poll promises.
  7. Kolkata’s Salt Lake Stadium will host the Fifa Under-17 World Cup final: The tournament is set to begin on October 6 with the final on October 28.
  8. Meat sellers begin indefinite strike against crackdown on illegal slaughterhouses in Uttar Pradesh: Several butcher shops and abattoirs have complained that they are being targeted under the new dispensation. 
  9. Post merger, SBI may reduce workforce by 10% over the next two years, says top official: The bank’s managing director said several employees would be offered the voluntary retirement scheme, and that dismissals were not an option.
  10. Suspected militants attack PDP minister’s house in Anantnag, snatch weapons from guards in Kashmir: Two policemen were injured after the armed men resorted to heavy firing at the entrance to Syed Farooq Andrabi’s ancestral home.