The big news: Public transport services in Kerala resume partially, and nine other top stories
Other headlines: Saurabh Chaudhary won India’s first Asian Games gold in shooting, and the Supreme Court refused to include NOTA option in Rajya Sabha polls.
A look at the headlines right now:
- Transport services limp back to normalcy after flood water recedes in Kerala: The Kerala Road Transport Corporation restored most of its services on Monday except operations in Idukki district where landslides have made roads inoperable.
- Saurabh Chaudhary wins India’s first shooting gold, Abhishek Verma gets bronze: This is the first time in Asian Games history that two Indian shooters have finished on the podium in the same event.
- NOTA option cannot be permitted in Rajya Sabha elections, says Supreme Court: The top court was hearing a plea against an Election Commission notification allowing legislators the option to reject candidates in polls to the Upper House.
- Clashes between militants, security forces under way after rockets attack Kabul: Two insurgents have been killed so far.
- Mob beats up woman, parades her naked on suspicion of murdering a man in Bihar: The mob also set several shops on fire and thrashed other locals.
- Delhi court sends two suspects in Umar Khalid attack case to two-day police custody: The men had claimed in a video clip that they had attacked the student leader as an Independence Day gift to the people.
- Two shelter home infants die allegedly of malnutrition in Jharkhand, inquiry ordered: One of the babies was reportedly relocated from the Missionaries of Charity-run organisation that is being investigated.
- Unite to stop ‘disturbing trend’ of intolerance, says former PM Mammohan Singh: The Congress leader was addressing the Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Award function in New Delhi.
- NASA says its instrument aboard India’s Chandrayaan-I has discovered ice water on the moon: The space agency said that most of the ice water on the satellite lies in the shadows of craters, on the poles.
- SC asks Jammu & Kashmir to reply on plea claiming torture of Kathua case witness in police custody: Talib Hussain had spearheaded a campaign demanding justice for the family of the girl who was raped and murdered in January in Kathua.