The big news: BJP dedicates MCD poll win to CRPF men killed in Sukma, and 9 other top stories
Other headlines: TTV Dinakaran was sent to police custody for five days, and a new CRPF chief was appointed days after 25 personnel were killed in an ambush.
A look at the headlines right now:
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanks Delhi for their ‘faith’ in BJP after it sweeps MCD elections: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal congratulated the winning party and state Congress president Ajay Maken resigned from his post.
- Delhi court sends AIADMK Amma leader Dinakaran to police custody for 5 days: He was produced in Delhi’s Tis Hazari court in connection with an Election Commission bribery case.
- New CRPF chief appointed two days after 25 personnel killed in Sukma ambush: Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar is from the 1983 batch of IPS.
- Making Aadhaar compulsory for Income Tax returns is against the Constitution, Supreme Court told: The Supreme Court on Wednesday began hearing cases challenging the validity of Section 139 AA of the Income Tax Act.
- Government suspends social media in Kashmir for a month: However, ANI reported that the administration had banned 22 social networking sites, including Facebook and WhatsApp, for a month.
- ‘Don’t arrest rowdy elements, call their parents’, UP Police chief tells anti-Romeo squads: He has issued a list of dos and don’ts for the squads to follow.
- Jet Airways ‘de-rosters’ expat pilot over racial abuse allegations made by Harbhajan Singh: The cricketer claimed that the airline’s staffer had referred to a flyer as a ‘bloody Indian’ and assaulted a woman and a disabled man on board the flight.
- Uber plans to test network of ‘vertical take-off and landing vehicles’ by 2020: The company is planning on launching the trials in United States’ Dallas city as well as Dubai.
- Islamophobic incidents at US borders up by 1,000% since Donald Trump took charge, says activist group: Out of the 193 cases involving Customs and Borders Protection officials, 181 were recorded after the first travel ban was introduced.
- Swipe right on Tinder to help world’s last northern white rhino keep his species alive: She takes on Roberta Vinci in the opening round of the Porsche Grand Prix in Stuttgart.