A look at the headlines right now:

  1. AAP ministers call chargesheet against Arvind Kejriwal, Sisodia in Delhi chief secretary assault case ‘bogus’: The Delhi Police named 13 MLAs in the chargesheet.   
  2. JNU student activist Umar Khalid attacked outside Constitution Club in Delhi: He was scheduled to attend an event titled ‘Towards a Freedom Without Fear’ at the club.   
  3. SC accepts Centre’s proposal to use coloured stickers on vehicles in NCR to indicate nature of fuel: Vehicles running on petrol and CNG will display light-blue stickers while diesel-based ones will carry an orange sticker.   
  4. Retail inflation eased to 4.17% in July: Prices of pulses and vegetables dropped.   
  5. Pune ranks best among 111 cities in government’s Ease of Living Index: Navi Mumbai and Greater Mumbai are at the second and third spot while Delhi ranks 65th.   
  6. Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee dies in Kolkata at 89: He was suffering from kidney-related ailments and was put on ventilator support on Sunday after he suffered a heart attack.   
  7. Sabarimala temple cordoned off due to floods, pilgrims asked to avoid travel: The pilgrims are headed to the shrine for the Niraputhari ritual on Tuesday.
  8. ‘There will be no war, nor will we negotiate with the United States,’ says Iran’s supreme leader: However, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Iran’s current problems were more the result of internal mismanagement than foreign sanctions.   
  9. Rahul Gandhi challenges Narendra Modi to a debate on Rafale deal: The Congress president called him the prime minister of ‘15 super rich businessmen’, and not the masses.   
  10. ‘NRC will be implemented across the country after 2019 Lok Sabha polls,’ says BJP vice president: Om Prakash Mathur said the country will not be allowed to become a ‘dharamshala’.