A look at the headlines right now:

  1. Farmers from Nashik reach Mumbai, to protest outside Maharashtra Assembly from Monday: Their demands include better safeguards, and a complete waiver of loans and electricity bills.
  2. Voter turnout in Gorakhpur Lok Sabha bye-poll crosses 40%, Bihar’s Araria fares best with 56%: Bye-elections are also being held in Uttar Pradesh’s Phulpur constituency and in the Jehanabad and Bhabua Assembly seats in Bihar.
  3. Xi Jinping can remain China’s president for life as Parliament abolishes term limit: The Great Hall of the People passed a constitutional amendment removing the clause that restricted the president’s tenure to two consecutive terms
  4. French President Macron raises aid for developing countries to adopt solar energy by three times: Inaugurating the International Solar Alliance with him, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Vedas could help fight climate change.
  5. Around 20 college students caught in forest fire in Tamil Nadu, Air Force to help rescue them: Chief Minister Palaniswami reportedly asked the defence minister for assistance.
  6. ‘We have completely forgiven our father’s killers,’ says Rahul Gandhi: The Congress president also accepted that the party lost the 2014 General Elections because of internal fighting and corruption.
  7. RBI cracks down on banks’ lending, asks for documents from past ‘several years’, say reports: The central bank asked for details of letters of undertaking issued as far back as 2011, a banker told Reuters.
  8. Russia test-fires hypersonic missile that Vladimir Putin has called an ‘ideal weapon’: The missile has a range of 2,000 km and can overcome air-defence systems, the president had said earlier this month.
  9. Syrian forces escalate attacks in Eastern Ghouta, 1,099 people have died in the past 3 weeks: The government denied charges that it had used chlorine gas in its attacks at the enclave.
  10. Sikh student in United Kingdom ‘dragged’ out of a bar for refusing to remove his turban: The bar asked 22-year-old Amrik Singh to leave the bar because of its ‘no headwear’ policy.