Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, a leader of the Trinamool Congress, has stepped down from the Rajya Sabha and announced his exit from the party.  

 Suraj Hegde, who was the former in-charge of the Indian Youth Congress, was the grandson of former Chief Minister Devaraj Urs. 

 INDIA bloc meeting LIVE: A total of 23 political parties will take part in the meeting and will rework the strategy to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). However, DMK and Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) are set to skip the meeting. 

 According to the ministry, the equivalent price of a 14.2kg LPG cylinder is ₹1,046 in Pakistan, ₹1,225 in Bangladesh, ₹1,755 in the US, ₹1,765 in Australia and ₹2,411 in Canada. 

 The suspect family were tenants in the property in West Bengal’s Bardhaman that the professor inherited from her grandmother.