The big news: Hospital cameras were turned off during Jayalalithaa’s stay, and 9 other top stories
Other headlines: The UIDAI chief admitted to flaws in the Aadhaar programme, and Rahul Gandhi accused the Centre of diverting attention from the Iraq deaths.
A look at the headlines right now:
- All CCTV cameras at Apollo were turned off during Jayalalithaa’s stay, says hospital chairperson: Dr Prathap Reddy said the former Tamil Nadu chief minister was the only patient in the ICU and was not allowed any visitors.
- 100% Aadhaar authentication is not possible, but no one will be denied benefits, UIDAI tells SC: The Supreme Court framed six questions for the Centre about Aadhaar, privacy and data security.
- Rahul Gandhi accuses Centre of making up data theft story to divert attention from Iraq deaths: Meanwhile, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg admitted to a breach of trust in the data breach scandal.
- Five militants killed in Kupwara encounter were foreign members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, claim police: They are believed to have crossed the LoC and met a militant group that already has a presence in the Valley.
- India successfully test-fires BrahMos missile from Pokharan in Rajasthan: Brahmos is the world’s fastest supersonic missile, flying at almost three times the speed of sound.
- Delhi presents ‘first green Budget’, aims at better pollution control this year: The Aam Aadmi Party government allocated 26% of the Rs 53,000-crore Budget to education.
- Jodhpur court orders Hardik Pandya to be booked for alleged tweet insulting Ambedkar, says report: The petitioner, an advocate, claimed that the cricketer had ‘committed a serious crime and hurt the sentiments of my entire community’.
- Iraqi official says the 39 Indian hostages were killed more than a year ago: Iraq’s Department of Forensic Medicine Chief Dr Zaid Ali Abbas said the remains he received were ‘just skeletons, only bones’.
- Former Himachal Pradesh CM Virbhadra Singh, wife get bail in money laundering case: In February, the Enforcement Directorare charged Singh for projecting Rs 7 crore ‘proceeds of crime’ as agricultural income, in connivance with his wife.
- CBI registers case against Hyderabad firm for allegedly cheating Union Bank of India: Totem Infrastructure Limited had reportedly secured a loan from a consortium of eight banks.
