The big news: Owners of 1Above in Kamala Mills arrested 12 days after fire, and 9 other top stories
Other headlines: US issued a travel advisory to its citizens travelling to India, and SEBI banned Price Waterhouse for 2 years over the Satyam scam.
A look at the headlines right now:
- Mumbai Police arrest three owners of 1Above restaurant, 12 days after Kamala Mills fire: The Sanghvi brothers were taken into custody on Wednesday and the third, Abhijeet Mankar, was caught a day later.
- Tour India with ‘increased caution’, says new US travel advisory: The advisory asked women to not travel alone and pointed out that violent crime such as sexual assault had recently taken place at tourist sites.
- SEBI bars Price Waterhouse from auditing any Indian listed company for two years: The firm said it was disappointed with the market regulator’s order.
- ‘There is an orchestrated campaign to malign Aadhaar,’ says former UIDAI Chairperson Nandan Nilekani: The UIDAI’s new two-step security process ‘eliminates all the arguments against Aadhaar’, he said.
- Mumbai home prices dropped in 2017 for the first time in a decade, says property consultancy firm: Demonetisation, new rules to protect consumers and GST contributed to the decline, Knight Frank said in a report.
- Supreme Court forms new team to investigate 186 cases from 1984 anti-Sikh riots: These cases have not yet been examined by the Centre-appointed Special Investigation Team.
- Suspected LeT militant allegedly involved in 2000 Red Fort attack arrested from Delhi airport: Bilal Ahmad Kawa’s bank account was allegedly used in hawala transactions that funded the strike as well as militancy in Kashmir.
- Himachal Pradesh government to withdraw ‘politically motivated cases’ filed by Congress: Five of the cases are against former Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, his son and BJP MP Anurag Thakur, and 16 others.
- Metro excavation workers find crude bombs buried near Mumbai Central station: The police said the bombs appeared to be old firecrackers stuffed into a casing, without a detonator or metal shrapnel.
- ‘We could conceivably go back in’, Donald Trump says US may rejoin Paris climate pact: The president said the climate treaty ‘was a bad deal for the US’, but he had no problem with the accord itself.
