A look at the headlines right now:

  1. Google gives Delhi Police email IDs from which CBSE chief received news of paper leak: The Jharkhand Police arrested three individuals and nine minors in connection with the case.
  2. BR Ambedkar’s statue vandalised in Allahabad; BSP, Samajwadi Party leaders demand action: The police have registered an FIR and an investigation has begun.  
  3. FIR registered against BJP MP Pralhad Joshi in Karnataka for alleged communal remark: The Dharwad legislator reportedly said that several mosques in Sadar Sofa area of Hubballi ‘illegally stored weapons’.  
  4. SpiceJet cabin crew allege that security personnel strip-searched them, airline denies it: The air carrier said it had conducted random ‘pat-down searches’ on March 28 and March 29 to ensure that no company goods or money was stolen.  
  5. Former University of Hyderabad students arrested for allegedly planning to kill vice chancellor: Ankala Prudhviraj and Chandan Kumar Misra believed that killing Appa Rao Podile would draw students in large numbers to join the CPI (Maoist), the police said. 
  6. Subramanian Swamy claims Centre’s proposal to sell Air India could be ‘another scam in the making’: The BJP leader said he would file a criminal law complaint if he found any faults in the divestment process.  
  7. Enforcement Directorate attaches assets of main accused in Bihar topper scam: This is the first attachment in the case in which the investigating agency has booked eight people.  
  8. MNREGA rates lower than minimum wage in 29 states, Union Territories, says rights group: The NREGA Sangharsh Morcha demanded that the revised wage rate for 2018-’19 be implemented immediately.  
  9. Protests erupt in California after private autopsy shows police shot black man in his back: The Sacramento Police had claimed that Stephon Clark advanced towards them in a menacing way before the shooting began.  
  10. Suspected militants shoot dead special police officer in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama: Mohammad Ashraf was a former militant who was now posted in Srinagar.