The big news: Telangana bus accident leaves at least 52 people dead, and nine other top stories
Other headlines: Raghuram Rajan said banks’ over-enthusiasm led to bad-loan crisis, and PNB scam accused Mehul Choksi refuted the allegations against him.
A look at the headlines right now:
- At least 52 people die after bus falls into gorge in Telangana’s Jagtial district: The passengers were reportedly pilgrims on their way back to Jagtial town after visiting a temple in Kondagattu.
- Raghuram Rajan blames over-enthusiasm of banks between 2006 and 2008 for bad loans: In a note to a parliamentary panel, the former RBI governor also blamed economic slowdown and slow decision-making by successive governments.
- All allegations are false and baseless, Mehul Choksi says in video: The fugitive businessman, who is in Antigua, said he had tried to get the suspension of his passport revoked but Indian authorities never responded.
- Begum Kulsoom, wife of former Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif, dies in London: In August 2017, she was diagnosed with early-stage lymphoma and was undergoing treatment in the UK.
- Rupee declines to record low of 72.74 against dollar before recovering, Sensex and Nifty 50 slump: This was the biggest single session decline in the currency’s value since August 13.
- Centre asks Bru families to return to Mizoram before it withdraws assistance at Tripura relief camps: The Centre said free ration and subsistence allowance of Rs 5 per person will be revoked from October 1.
- Supreme Court refuses to intervene in appointment of Jammu and Kashmir acting DGP Dilbagh Singh: The bench had sought the attorney general’s opinion in addressing the petition that claimed the state government had arbitrarily removed SP Vaid from his post.
- People excluded from final list of NRC will be disenfranchised and deported, says BJP leader Ram Madhav: The party general secretary said no other country tolerates undocumented migrants, but India has become a ‘dharamshala due to political considerations’.
- Johnson & Johnson got Justice BN Srikrishna’s clean chit in 2014, submitted it to police, says report: The Mahim police in Mumbai had registered an FIR against the company based on a complaint filed by the Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration.
- Easily-available software hack can help unauthorised people create Aadhaar numbers, says report: The software, which can bypass some critical security features of the Aadhaar enrolment platform, is available on WhatsApp groups for as little as Rs 2,500.