A look at the headlines right now:

  1. After MCD poll rout, Kejriwal tells AAP councillors to record any offers they get from BJP: Punjab in-charge Sanjay Singh, co-observer Durgesh Pathak and several others resigned after the party’s massive loss in Delhi.
  2. Actor Vinod Khanna dies in Mumbai: The 70-year-old MP had advanced bladder cancer.
  3. Narendra Modi flags off first flight under regional connectivity scheme from Shimla: Air India subsidiary Alliance Air will operate aircraft along the Delhi-Shimla route from an airport in Jubbarhatti in the suburbs of the state capital.
  4. Three soldiers killed, two militants shot dead in attack on Army camp in Kupwar, Kashmir: The group opened fire on the military’s artillery base near the LoC around 4 am.
  5. BCCI to take a huge pay cut as ICC’s revised financial model comes through: The Indian cricket board will now receive $293 million, a major drop from the earlier amount of $570 million.
  6. Lokpal legislation is workable, no need to delay its implementation, Supreme Court tells Centre: The bench held that the amendments to the Act could also be enforced right away.
  7. Centre to source 250 bullet-proof, mine-protected vehicles for anti-Maoist operations in Chhattisgarh: The Home Ministry refuted reports that claimed casualties among security forces in the restive region was because of lack of financial resources.
  8. NGT issues contempt notice to Sri Sri Ravi Shankar over comments on Yamuna floodplains: The Art of Living chief had accused the panel of compiling a biased report about the damage his organisation had done to the eco-sensitive zone.
  9. Delhi Police will question 31 students over three days in JNU sedition case: This includes ex-students’ union Vice President Shehla Rashid, former students union president Satrupa and MP D Raja’s daughter Aparajitha Raja.
  10. Tiger cub reared by dummy toy mother dies in Madhya Pradesh’s Bandhavgarh reserve: With this, the forest has lost the third and last of the rescued litter to a viral infection.