A look at the headlines right now:

  1. ‘BJP uses hatred, Congress follows ideology of fraternity,’ says Rahul Gandhi at party’s plenary session: The Congress president’s Twitter handle was changed from @OfficeOfRG to just @RahulGandhi ahead of the two-day event.
  2. Telugu Desam Party moves no-trust motion against Centre in Lok Sabha: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the Centre was waiting for TDP’s response to a proposed special package scheme for Andhra Pradesh.
  3. Xi Jinping re-elected president of China with no term limit anymore: None of the nearly 3,000 members of the Great Hall of the People voted against him.
  4. India accuses Pakistan of blocking government websites, affecting visa applications: The Indian High Commission has received several complaints from people seeking to fill visa forms or information from websites that end with .gov.in.
  5. Jharkhand court convicts 11, including BJP worker, for lynching man over beef in Ramgarh: They had beaten a 55-year-old man to death in June 2017 on suspicion of carrying beef in his van.
  6. BJP worker’s father beheaded in Bihar’s Darbhanga allegedly for naming square after Modi: Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi said Ramchandra Yadav was murdered because of a property dispute.
  7. Rafale deal caused a loss of Rs 36,000 crore even as the Indian Army begs for money, says Rahul Gandhi: The Congress President alleged that Dassault Aviation had exposed Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s lie by releasing the price of the jets.
  8. Ram Setu won’t be touched, we’ll find other ways to build shipping canal, Centre tells SC: The court had asked the government to clarify its stand on the Sethusamudram project in the region.
  9. British foreign secretary says Vladimir Putin may have ordered the nerve agent attack on ex-spy: But the Kremlin called Boris Johnson’s allegations ‘shocking and an inexcusable breach of diplomatic propriety’.
  10. Stephen Hawking said the Vedas have a theory superior to Einstein’s E=mc^2, claims science minister: Union minister Harsh Vardhan made the statement at the 105th Indian Science Congress.