Look at the top headlines of the day.
- FIR against ‘The Wire’ editor for fraud, forgery and defamation on Amit Malviya’s complaint: In a series of articles, the news website claimed that BJP leaders had special powers to remove posts from Instagram, but these have now been withdrawn.
- Construction and demolition activities have been banned as Delhi’s air quality approaches the ‘severe’ category. The capital’s 24-hour average air quality index was 397 at 4pm, the worst since January.
- The parliament is calling for the BJP to respond after a journalist in Karnataka claims to have received cash from CM’s office. Congress asked the state government where the money came from.
- Elon Musk says Twitter will form a content moderation council with diverse perspectives. He made the announcement shortly after completing his $44 billion (over Rs 336,910 crore) acquisition of the microblogging site.
- At least 25 people have been injured in a fire in the city of Aurangabad, Bihar. The fire broke out at around 2:30 am in the house where the family was cooking for the Chhath Pooja festival.
- Social media has become a powerful tool for terrorists, says S Jaishankar. The foreign minister said terrorists “use the spirit of an open society to attack freedom, tolerance and progress.”
- An IndiGo plane landing at Delhi airport after its engine caught fire on the runway: The flight en route from Delhi to Bengaluru had 177 passengers and 7 crew members.
- Cyberbad police move HC to seek the custody of the accused. Telangana alleged ‘poaching’ case: Police accused the four Telangana Rashtra Samithi of trying to bribe them to join the BJP.
- Arvind Kejriwal launches campaign to select AAP’s prime minister candidate in Gujarat state parliamentary poll. A convener of the Aam Aadmi party criticized the BJP’s replacement of former CM Vijay Rupani with Bhupendra Patel, saying it was done without asking the public.
- US sanctions Iranian group accused of placing bounty on writer Salman Rushdie: The 75-year-old lost the use of one eye and one hand after assaulting him at a literary event in New York in August.
