A look at the headlines right now:

  1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates Dhola Sadiya, India’s longest bridge, in Assam: The 9.15-km-long structure is expected to cut the travel time between Assam and Arunachal Pradesh from six hours to one hour. 
  2. Centre bans the sale of cattle for slaughter at markets across the country: The new rules require cattle traders to give an undertaking that the animals are only being sold for agricultural purposes.
  3. Pakistan a ‘well of death’, says Indian who returns after allegedly being forced to wed a Pakistani: However, Sushma Swaraj said the country’s foreign office and home ministry had cooperated and helped Uzma Ahmad return to India.
  4. The spirit of tolerance is what makes us Indians, says Pranab Mukherjee: The outgoing president said Indians need to choose between defining ourselves as a nation of vibrant or partisan views.
  5. Donald Trump tells Nato members they ‘owe massive amounts of money’: He claimed 23 of the 28 nations in the alliance were not paying what they should and this was not fair to US taxpayers.
  6. CBSE results will be out ‘on time’, says HRD minister Prakash Javadekar: However, the board has not announced a date for the results yet.
  7. Man used as ‘human shield’ moves state human rights body against Army honouring the accused officer: Pakistan condemned India’s decision to award Major Nitin Gogoi and urged the United Nations to take cognisance of the act.
  8. Several injured as violence breaks out during BJP protest march in Kolkata: Police personnel resorted to using teargas shells, water cannons and batons against the party workers.
  9. West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee says she met Narendra Modi to discuss development, not politics: The Trinamool leader said the state’s debt situation and export duty matters with Bangladesh were part of the meeting’s agenda.
  10. UK police stops sharing information with US after Manchester attack investigation data leak: US President Donald Trump vowed to launch a probe into the ‘deeply troubling’ breach.