- With the arrival of eight Sri Lankan nationals at Dhanushkodi through an illegal ferry from Thalaimannar, the total number of Lankans seeking refuge in India has risen to 142.
- Citizen sanitation teams of Indore were out on Sunday with a “mission sweep.” The yearly mega cleaning drive, according to Indoreans, helps them understand the hard work of civic workers to keep the city clean.
- BJP dubbed CM Arvind Kejriwal as “the kingpin of the excise policy scam” and that “handcuffs are getting closer to him.” Kejriwal, meantime, said that the BJP wakes up each morning and plays the CBI-ED game.
- Justice Devan Ramachandran of the Kerala HC made a remarkable order, in which he said potholes are man-made disasters and district collectors would be answerable for any untoward incident caused by them.
- Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia said that he has the audio recording of a conversation where a BJP leader is offering him a clean chit from the CBI case, if he would break AAP and switch over to BJP.
- Tensions prevailed in Pakistan when the followers of former PM Imran Khan warned the government that they would take over the country if Mr. Khan was arrested on anti-terrorism charges.
- After meeting Jr NTR, Home Minister Amit Shah called him a very talented actor and a gem of Telugu Cinema. Jr NTR penned a tweet thanking Shah for his kind words.
- Russia has said that it has detained an ISIS terrorist with plans to carry out a suicide bombing to eliminate a political leader for speaking against Prophet Muhammed.
- Islamist militant group al-Shabab carried out a siege at a hotel in Somalia’s capital city Mogadishu, in which, at least 21 people were killed and 117 injured.
- After WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called the crisis in Ethiopia’s Tigray region “the worst disaster on earth,” the Ethiopian government slammed his comment as “unethical.”
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