Highlights at 10 pm

Following are the highlights at 10 pm.

TOP STORIES:

NEWDELHI DEL8 INDOPAK-LD SUMMON

New Delhi: India today summoned Pakistan's Deputy High Commissioner here and lodged a strong protest over the denial of access to its envoy in Islamabad and consular officials to visit Gurdwara Panja Sahib and meet visiting Indian pilgrims.

JAMMU DEL18 JK-3RD LD-SHAH

Jammu: BJP president Amit Shah today said his party will never allow the separation of Jammu and Kashmir from the rest of the country, as he lashed at Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Saifuddin Soz for being on the same frequency as the terrorists.

NEWDELHI DEL16 AVI-AIR INDIA-LD FLIGHTS

New Delhi: Scores of Air India passengers were stranded at several airports across the country as a technical glitch in the airline's check-in software delayed 25 flights today, officials said.

 

RAJGARH BOM13 MP-2NDLD PM

Rajgarh: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today that to glorify one family, deliberate attempts were being made to belittle the contributions of other towering leaders in nation building, as he paid rich tributes to Bharatiya Jana Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee.

NEWDELHI DEL11 CONG-DEMO-NABARD

New Delhi: The Congress today alleged that NABARD was "forced" to issue a statement to "suppress" its own RTI reply that notes worth over Rs 745 crore were deposited in a cooperative bank, where BJP chief Amit Shah is a director, within five days of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's demonetisation announcement.

NATION:

JAMMU DEL13 JK-LD JOURNALISTS

Jammu/Srinagar: Former minister and senior BJP leader Lal Singh has warned Kashmiri journalists to draw a line between reporting facts and supporting terrorists or face the fate of Rising Kashmir editor Shujaat Bukhari, who was shot dead by militants.

CHIKKAMAGALURU MDS5 KA-BJP WORKER KILLED

Chikkamagaluru (Kar): A BJP functionary was stabbed to death by two motorcycle-borne assailants here, police said today.

KHUNTI CAL2 JH-GANGRAPE-FIR

Khunti (Jharkhand): The head of the Kochange village school, from where five women working with an NGO were allegedly abducted and later gang-raped, has been booked for not reporting the incident to police, an official said today.

BUSINESS:

NEWDELHI DCM4 BIZ-WHATSAPP

New Delhi/New York: WhatsApp, which is testing its payments services in India, today said it is updating its terms of service and privacy policy to "reflect the addition of payment interoperability features" ahead of the full-fledged launch of the service.

MCM24 BIZ-INFOSYS-MURTHY

Bengaluru: For the second straight year, Infosys co-founder N R Narayana Murthy stayed away from company's Annual General Meeting here.

NEWDELHI DCM7 BIZ-BHARTIINFRATEL-CFO

New Delhi: Mobile tower firm Bharti Infratel today said it has appointed S Balasubramanian as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), who will take over the role with effect from August 10.

FOREIGN:

NEPAL-INDIA-CHINA

Beijing: Nepal can serve as a bridge between India and China, Prime Minister K P Oli has said, insisting that his country will maintain close ties with the two neighbours while pursuing independent foreign policy.

BULAWAYO FGN19 ZIMBABWE-LD BLAST

Bulawayo: Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa survived a blast at a ruling ZANU-PF party rally today, while one of his vice-presidents and two other party officials were wounded

ISLAMABAD FGN15 PAK-LD MUSARRAF

Islamabad: A day after resigning as the chairman of All Pakistan Muslim League (APML), Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf today said he wanted to return and contest elections, but he could not do so as he had sought some assurances from the government which it failed to fulfil them.

UK-VISA-INDIA

London: London Mayor Sadiq Khan has said he will continue to lobby the UK government to change its rules around immigration as he branded the exclusion of Indians from an easier student visa application regime as "offensive" and a "wasted opportunity".