The big news: Delhi High Court reinstates 20 AAP MLAs, and nine other top stories
Other headlines: Arun Jaitley and Congress’ Abhishek Singhvi won Rajya Sabha seats, and a gunman killed one person after holding people hostage in France.
A look at the headlines right now:
- Truth has triumphed, says Arvind Kejriwal after Delhi High Court reinstates 20 AAP legislators: The chief minister’s media advisor, Nagender Sharma, said the court order was a ‘tight slap on biased’ Election Commission.
- Jaitley wins in Uttar Pradesh, Congress’ Abhishek Singhvi bags West Bengal seat in Rajya Sabha elections: Counting began in Uttar Pradesh two hours after it started in the other states.
- Gunman kills at least one at a shopping mall, holds several people hostage in France: Prosecutors said the gunman had pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State group.
- Karnataka grants minority status to Lingayat community: This comes days after the Siddaramaiah government accepted a panel’s recommendation to grant the group the status of a separate religion.
- CBI books Deccan Chronicle Holdings for allegedly cheating United India Insurance of Rs 30.5 crore: The investigating agency accused two officials at the insurance firm of misusing their roles as government servants to participate in the conspiracy.
- CBI arrests promoters, directors of Totem Infrastructure for allegedly cheating Union Bank of India: The agency had filed a case against the firm on Thursday.
- Delhi Police stop JNU students, teachers marching to Parliament to protest varsity’s policies: The security personnel resorted to baton charge and fired water cannons at the demonstrators, injuring many of them.
- Publicise steps being taken to check if A320neo aircraft engines are safe, Bombay HC tells DGCA: The bench told the regulatory body that grounding a few aircraft and following the directives of the European Air Safety Authority were not enough.
- Tender for 3,19,400 anti-rodent tablets doesn’t mean there were that many rats, says Maharashtra PWD: The Public Works Department said two tenders were issued for the pest control exercise.
- Soumyajit Ghosh dropped from India’s Table Tennis squad for Commonwealth Games, suspended: The omission comes a day after he was accused of rape by a teenager in Kolkata.