A look at the headlines right now:

  1. Karnataka CM Kumaraswamy announces farm loan waiver scheme of Rs 34,000 crore in first budget: The chief minister, however, said the waiver will only be applicable for farmers whose loan is less than Rs 2 lakh.
  2. Delhi court grants anticipatory bail to Shashi Tharoor in Sunanda Pushkar death case: The bench barred the Congress leader from travelling abroad without its permission.
  3. Hundreds detained in Jharkhand during statewide shutdown against changes to land acquisition law: The Congress, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) and Left parties are supporting the shutdown.
  4. CCTV footage shows Burari family members carrying stools and wires into their home: According to the dairies found at the house, the family did not expect to die and thought a spirit would save them.
  5. Petrol, diesel prices rise for the first time in 37 days: A litre of petrol in Delhi cost Rs 75.71 on Thursday, up from Rs 75.55 on Wednesday.
  6. Students protest after Kolkata’s Jadavpur University scraps entrance tests for six humanities courses: Comparative literature, history, political science, philosophy, English and Bengali are the subjects for which tests have been cancelled.
  7. Air India accedes to Beijing’s demand, renames Taiwan ‘Chinese Taipei’ on its website: In April, China’s civil aviation authority had asked international airlines to change how Taiwan is described on their websites within 30 days.
  8. Final draft of Assam’s National Register of Citizens will exclude around 1.5 lakh names: These names will not be included because they were found to be inadmissible when the family tree was verified, the register’s coordinator said.
  9. Only one Nano car unit was produced in June, says Tata Motors: The company said the model cannot survive beyond 2019 in its present form.
  10. UK couple in Wiltshire county exposed to nerve gas agent that poisoned Russian ex-spy: Amesbury town, where the couple were found unconscious, is just eight miles from Salisbury, where Skripal was poisoned.