- Gaya
Nawazuddin Siddiqui to star as Dasrath Manjhi, the man who moved a mountain, in Ketan Mehta’s biopic
- New Delhi
After rejecting Yakub Memon’s mercy petition, President Pranab Mukherjee turned down the pleas of eight other convicts
- Mumbai
Mumbai Cricket Association lifting the ban on filmstar Shahrukh Khan’s entry into Wankhede stadium while rejecting the appeal of cricketer Ankeet Chavan to overturn the ban on his playing cricket
- London
Mamata Banerjee taking out ads for West Bengal in The Daily Telegraph, London, on the eve of her visit to the UK
- Delhi
The Centre listing manual scavenging as a career option on the national career services portal, part of ‘Skill India’
- Delhi
A new species of spider discovered at the Asola Bhatti sanctuary being named ‘Jagannath’ for bearing a close resemblance to the Hindu deity
- Karachi
Ex-Pakistan pacer Wasim Akram escapes in a road rage case. He is fired upon after an accident.
Compiled by Alka Gupta, Pavithra S. Rangan and Arushi Bedi
