Here are the top reads from this evening.
Sri Sri extravaganza: NGT asks Art of Living to cough up Rs 42 crore for 'damaging' Yamuna floodplains
In a report submitted to the National Green Tribunal, an expert committee it had appointed has said the Art of Living Foundation and other agencies should bear Rs.42 crore environment compensation for restoration of the Yamuna floodplains it damaged during its World Culture Festival last year. AOL hit out at the NGT's expert committee calling them 'biased'. Read more here.
Terror launch pads destroyed during surgical strike active again
Major General RP Kalita, who heads the Army's 19 Division based in Baramulla, said that terror launch pads directly opposite Uri in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK) have now been reoccupied. The terror launch pads had been destroyed by the Indian Army after the Uri attack. Read more here.
Kulbhushan row: 'Whenever India needs me, I am available,' says Tharoor after Swaraj denies asking for help
Shashi Tharoor said he would maintain silence on the row over providing help in the Kulbhushan Jadhav issue after EAM Sushma Swaraj tweeted that reports of him helping with drafting a resolution was untrue. Read more here.
Meerut: Hindu Yuva Vahini members assault couple on suspicion of 'love-jihad'
Hindu Yuva Vahini activists on Wednesday barged into a couple's house in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut city and allegedly dragged the duo to a nearby police station on suspicion of 'love jihad'. Nagendra Singh Tomar, the head of Hindu Yuva Vahini in western Uttar Pradesh, demanded that the police take strict action as "the Muslim boy was romancing with a Hindu girl in the house". Read more here.
Parliament condemns BJP youth wing leader who offered bounty on Mamata; govt says West Bengal govt free to take action
After a BJP youth wing leader placed a bounty of Rs 11 lakh for beheading West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the Lok Sabha condemned the statement. Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi stated that 'the state government can take proper action." Read more here. Read more here.
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