India

The 'Golden Queen of Manipur', 31-year-old Olympic medalist Mirabai Chanu makes history by clinching her record-breaking third straight Commonwealth Games gold. She is indisputably India's greatest lifter of her generation.

West Bengal finance minister Swapan Dasgupta tables 28 pending CAG reports in Assembly and says they would be discussed in a special session. It would help explain factors contributing to Bengal’s huge debt burden, he added.

Reduced water inflows into Mettur reservoir have upped the ante in both Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, bringing the Cauvery water dispute back to attention. TN wants Karnataka to release enough water.

Even after a 27-year-old software engineer drowned after his car fell into a waterlogged pit in Noida in January, there was no work on ensuring stricter safety measures. Now, a 6-year-old boy’s death has renewed calls for accountability

The education minister’s resignation sparks celebrations by Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), but security forces arrive at the protest site at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar in large numbers and start sending the protestors away.