Following are top stories at 1915

Following are top stories at 1915

hours today:

DEL31 CBI-BOFORS-CHINESE

New Delhi: China-made parts camouflaged as 'Made in Germany' find their way to the production line of indigenised Bofors guns used by the Army, prompting the CBI to file a case against a Delhi-based company.

DEL27 GA-LDALL VAGHELA

Gandhinagar/New Delhi: In a body blow to the Congress in Gujarat, one of its tallest leaders Shankarsinh Vaghela, announces he is quitting the party which had taken "supari" (contract) from BJP to facilitate the latter's victory in the Assembly elections.

CAL12 WB DARJEELING SITUATION

Darjeeling (WB): The youth wing of the GJM begins a hunger strike on the 37th day of the indefinite agitation in the Darjeeling hills to press for the demand of a separate state of Gorkhaland out of West Bengal.
 

CAL11 NL-ZELIANG-LD TRUSTVOTE

Kohima: Nagaland Chief Minister T R Zeliang wins the trust vote in the assembly with a comfortable margin, two days after he replaced Shurhozelie Liezietsu, capping a week of dramatic developments in the state.

DEL32 IRAQ-MINISTER-INDIA

New Delhi: The issue of 39 Indians, taken hostage by ISIS in Mosul in 2014, as well as ways to enhance cooperation in key areas of energy and trade are expected to be discussed during the visit of the foreign minister of Iraq here next week.

CAL9 WB-MAMATA-LD BJP

Kolkata: Stepping up her attack on the BJP, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee says it should be ousted from India for "failure on all fronts" and offers to back all parties which intend to fight the saffron party.

LGD26 SC-WHATSAPP

New Delhi: The Centre tells the Supreme Court that data of users is "integral" to the Right of Life and Personal Liberty guranteed under the Constitution and it would come out with regulations to protect it.

LGD25 DL-COURT-LD SUNANDA ROOM

New Delhi: A Delhi court orders de-sealing of a suite in a five-star hotel here where Congress leader Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in 2014 under mysterious circumstances.

LGD24 SC-LD COW VIGILANTISM

New Delhi: The Supreme Court asks the Centre and the states not to protect any kind of vigilantism and seeks their response on violent incidents in the garb of cow protection.

DEL6 RAHUL-KASHMIR

New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi charges that the Narendra Modi government's policies are "burning" Jammu and Kashmir and flayed any attempt for third party intervention to resolve the issue, saying "Kashmir is India".

FGN8 UN-AIDS-INDIA

United Nations: India, China and Pakistan are among the 10 countries that accounted for more than 95 per cent of all new HIV infections in the Asia and the Pacific region in 2016, according to a UN report. By Yoshita Singh

FGN7 US-LD SIKKIM

Washington: The US is "closely and carefully" following the border standoff between India and China, the Trump administration says, urging the two countries to engage in direct dialogue to reduce the tension.