A look at the headlines right now:

  1. Rahul Gandhi lashes out at PM during ‘Jan Aakrosh’ rally: The Congress president and his predecessor Sonia Gandhi questioned the government’s track record in tackling corruption, and said their party would win in 2019.
  2. All villages in India are now electrified, claims government, Congress says BJP taking ‘fake credit’: A village is said to be electrified if at least 10% of its households, as well as public places, have access to power.
  3. Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao meets DMK’s Karunanidhi, Stalin to discuss Third Front: Rao and Stalin also spoke to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on the phone.
  4. Eight passengers feared dead after boat capsizes in Kosi river in Bhagalpur: Seven passengers were rescued.
  5. Seventeen civilian ‘ministers’ take oath as Kerala’s first shadow cabinet: A shadow cabinet is an alternative one formed with the aim of monitoring government decisions.
  6. Russian intervention on Twitter may have helped Labour Party during 2017 UK elections, says report: Over 6,500 accounts shared posts supporting Jeremy Corbyn with millions of voters in the run-up to the elections, a report said.
  7. Bomb blast at the office of a hydroelectricity project in Nepal which PM Modi will inaugurate: No one was injured in the explosion and an investigation has been launched, the chief district officer of Sankhuwasabha said.   
  8. ‘The monument has not been handed over’, says Centre after row over private firm adopting Red Fort: The Ministry of Tourism said the MoU signed with the Dalmia Bharat group was only meant for the development and operations of the site.
  9. UP board exam results declared; 72.43% clear Class 12 exams, 75.16% pass Class 10 tests: More than 10 lakh students did not appear for the examinations after the government imposed measures to curb cheating.   
  10. Seoul says Pyongyang has offered to close down its nuclear test site: Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump said he might meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the next three to four weeks.