A look at the headlines right now:

  1. BJP chief Amit Shah calls Rahul Gandhi ‘double-faced’ for meeting Lalu Prasad Yadav at AIIMS: Lalu Yadav criticised the hospital for discharging him, and alleged it was a conspiracy.
  2. Kathua case is a ‘small incident’, don’t give it ‘much weight’, says new Jammu and Kashmir Deputy CM: Kavinder Gupta refused to take a stance on the demand for a CBI investigation into the case.
  3. 36 killed, several injured in two consecutive explosions in Kabul: An AFP photographer was among nine journalists killed.
  4. India makes no distinction between religions, says PM Modi at Buddha Purnima event: He also said the country also has no history of attacking other nations or schools of thought.
  5. JEE (Main) results declared, 2.31 lakh candidates qualify for Advanced exam: Around 14 lakh candidates appeared for the test this year.
  6. Trinamool Congress wins 34% of Bengal panchayat seats uncontested: The party had a walkover in 20,076 of the 58,692 seats.
  7. Marking MP police candidates’ chests ‘SC’, ‘ST’, ‘OBC’ is an attack on Constitution, says Rahul Gandhi: Bahujan Samaj Party leader Mayawati questioned the silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and top BJP leaders on the matter.
  8. Twitter sold user data to Cambridge Analytica researcher who collected Facebook information: Aleksander Kogan bought tweets, usernames, photos, profile pictures and location data from Twitter between December 2014 and April 2015.
  9. Missile strikes kill at least 26 people, mostly Iranians, says Syrian war monitor: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights suspects the strikes were carried out by Israel.
  10. SC collegium may counter Centre’s decision on KM Joseph with facts, says Justice Kurian Joseph: The government did not ‘put facts in perspective’ when it rejected the Uttarakhand High Court chief justice for elevation to the Supreme Court, he said.