Good evening, readers! Here’s a quick wrap of the day’s top headlines for you to snack on as you grab your evening tea
Manoj Bajpayee’s latest, backed by filmmaker Neeraj Panday’s banner, had stirred up quite the storm when it was announced. Read more here . Read full match report here . Initially called Ghooskhor Pandat, the film has now, by some strange twist of logic, been rechristened Gajab Raat. Ironically, the new title is far more apt for the film than the original one. Read full review here .
Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia University has shifted all courses to online mode amid ongoing campus protests demanding the restoration of the students’ union, which was dissolved in 2006. A 32-year-old App-based motorbike taxi driver was arrested by the Maharashtra Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) and handed over to the local police in Mumbai’s Mahim area for posting allegedly inflammatory comments and videos of Pakistan-based terrorist organisation head Maulana Masood Azhar of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM). A Class 12 student was found dead with burn injuries behind the guard room at a government school in east Delhi’s Krishna Nagar on Saturday, with police probing the case as a suspected suicide. Deputy commissioner of police (Shahdara) Rajendra Prasad Meena said that the 18-year-old student died by suicide but refused to share further details. Mumbai: Tilak Varma and Nitish Reddy’s unbeaten 30-ball 69 run seventh wicket partnership helped India pull a win back from the dead while chasing 181 for a 4-wicket win in the second T20I at Christchurch on Saturday. India were well behind the chase at 113/6 after 15 overs. That left them to get 68 runs in five overs with New Zealand having used up all their spin overs that dominated proceedings in the middle overs on a pitch where the ball wasn’t really coming on to the bat.
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In an official statement issued on Saturday, the university said the decision was taken to ensure the safety and security of “bona fide students”.
