The big news: Union minister questions Congress-Cambridge Analytica links, and 9 other top stories
Other headlines: School teachers, principal booked for girl’s alleged suicide in Noida, and 26 people were killed in a suicide attack in Kabul.
A look at the headlines right now:
- Ravi Shankar Prasad accuses Congress of having links with Cambridge Analytica amid data breach row: The data analysis firm suspended its chief executive Alexander Nix in data breach row.
- Noida police file case against school principal, teachers after teenager allegedly commits suicide: The family claimed the teachers touched the 15-year-old girl inappropriately and had failed her in her exams ‘intentionally’.
- Suicide blast in Kabul kills 26, injures 18: The explosion took place close to the Ali Abad Hospital and Kabul University.
- Sikh youths are being trained at ISI facilities in Pakistan, says government: The Centre claimed that militant groups are under pressure from the intelligence agency in Islamabad to carry out terror activities in India.
- Parliament impasse continues, both Houses adjourned for the day amid protests: The no-confidence motion moved by the TDP and the YSR Congress against the Narendra Modi government has not yet been brought up for discussion this week.
- Aadhaar impinges upon fundamental right to follow religious faith, petitioner tells Supreme Court: The five-judge Constitution bench, which took note of the petition, asked if a person can refuse to abide by the law saying his conscience doesn’t allow it.
- Delhi High Court issues notices to Raja, Kanimozhi on appeals filed by CBI and ED in 2G spectrum case: The bench also said the Rs 223-crore worth of properties that the Enforcement Directorate had attached during the trial will remain with the agency for now.
- Maldives charges former President Maumoon Gayoom and two Supreme Court judges with terrorism: The country is likely to lift the state of emergency on Thursday, 45 days after it was imposed.
- Jayalalithaa refused to go to hospital hours before she fainted, Sasikala tells probe panel, say reports: The jailed AIADMK leader made the claim in her affidavit before the judicial commission investigating the former chief minister’s death.
- Unidentified people hurl petrol bomb at BJP district head’s house in Coimbatore, damage his car: The incident, the second in as many weeks, came a day after social reformer Periyar’s statue was vandalised in Tamil Nadu.