The big news: Amit Shah skips Kerala rally to meet Modi, Jaitley in Delhi, and 9 other top stories
Other headlines: Gujarat HC rejected Zakia Jafri’s plea against the clean chit to Modi in Godhra riots, and Kazuo Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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A look at the headlines right now:
- Amit Shah skips rally in Kerala CM’s village, returns to Delhi to meet Modi and Arun Jaitley: The CPI(M) and Congress claimed Shah abruptly changed his plans because of poor crowds at BJP rallies and in-fighting in the party.
- Gujarat HC rejects Zakia Jafri’s plea against clean chit to PM Narendra Modi in 2002 Godhra riots: The petition had challenged a magisterial court’s order clearing all the accused in the case.
- Kazuo Ishiguro wins the Nobel Prize in Literature for ‘novels of great emotional force’: The themes he is most associated with are memory, time and self-delusion.
- Election Commission says it can hold simultaneous Lok Sabha and state polls from September 2018: Election Commissioner OP Rawat said it is up to the government to decide when to begin this and make the necessary legal amendments for it.
- Gauri Lankesh honoured with annual Anna Politkovskaya Award posthumously: Her sister Kavitha said the award will boost the morale of more journalists who want to write and fight.
- Forty sentenced to life for plotting to kill President Tayyip Erdogan in 2016: No verdict was passed in the case of exiled cleric Fetullah Gulen, whom Ankara has accused of organising the coup.
- SHO transferred after picture shows Radhe Maa sitting on his chair: The Delhi Police initiated an inquiry into the incident after the picture surfaced on social media.
- Court refuses to exempt children in Uttar Pradesh madrasas from singing the anthem, rejects plea: The Allahabad High Court said the petitioner was unable to show that singing the national anthem would violate the beliefs of students at madrasas.
- Case filed against actor Prakash Raj for his comments against Narendra Modi, says report: He had criticised the prime minister for his silence on journalist Gauri Lankesh’s murder.
- Bangladesh razes over 20 boats carrying refugees from Myanmar: The local commander of the border guards said they were cracking down on human trafficking and the smuggling the methamphetamine drug.