A look at the headlines right now:

  1. Congress must be the ‘voice of India’ and work for Dalits and the poor, says Rahul Gandhi at the party’s working committee meet: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh criticised the BJP-led government at the Centre for its ‘culture of constant self-praise’.    
  2. Security forces kill three suspected militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam: The gunfight took place just a day after an abducted police constable was found dead. 
  3. Days before Pakistan polls, leader in Nawaz Sharif’s party gets life sentence in narcotics case: PML(N) President Shehbaz Sharif raised doubts about the judgement and its timing, calling the case ‘politically motivated’. 
  4. Minister hints at conspiracy, says as PM’s popularity rises, so will number of lynching incidents: Arjun Ram Meghwal hinted at a conspiracy to defame the prime minister and said such killings were a reaction to developmental projects initiated by Modi.   
  5. One killed as man barricades himself in Los Angeles store after shooting grandmother, girlfriend: After a police chase, the suspect crashed his car near the Trader Joe’s supermarket in Silver Lake area, entered the store and took hostages. 
  6. Vasundhara Raje to be BJP’s chief ministerial candidate for Rajasthan polls, says Amit Shah: The BJP chief claimed that the welfare programmes the state government had introduced have been appreciated across the country.   
  7. Haryana priest arrested for allegedly raping multiple disciples, blackmailing them with videos: The police said they have recovered around 120 videos of sexual acts from his house during a raid.   
  8. One dead, 29 injured as scaffold, girders of under-construction hospital collapse in Chennai’s Taramani area: One of the rescued workers said that 50 of them were at the site during the accident.   
  9. Actor Siddharth Shukla arrested after his luxury SUV crashes into three cars: Police said Shukla was sent for a medical examination to check if he was driving under the influence of alcohol.   
  10. BJP MLA says laxity of officials contributed to Greater Noida building collapse: The Adityanath government has sacked an official and suspended two following the mishap.