HIGHLIGHTS

New Delhi, Aug 17 (PTI) Following are the top stories at 1.30 pm:
    
    NATION
    
    DEL14 SPACE-LD SHUKLA
    * Shubhanshu Shukla returns to India to rousing welcome; LS set to discuss his sojourn to ISS
    New Delhi: Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla returned to India early Sunday to a rousing welcome by a large number of people waving the tricolour and beating drums at the airport here to celebrate his historic visit to the International Space Station (ISS). *
    
    DEL20 JK-RAINS-3RDLD KATHUA
    * Cloudburst, landslide in J-K’s Kathua; seven killed
    Jammu: Seven members of four families, including five children, were killed in two separate incidents of cloudburst and landslide in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir early Sunday, officials said. *

    DEL6 RAHUL-BH-YATRA
    * Rahul to embark on 'Voter Adhikar Yatra' from Bihar's Sasaram
    Sasaram (Bihar): Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi will on Sunday begin from here his 1,300 km-long 'Voter Adhikar Yatra' that will cover over 20 districts in Bihar, as the Congress steps up its campaign against what it claims to be "vote chori". *
    
    DEL13 TRIBAL-FRA-CLARIFICATION
    * Centre says forest dept not nodal agency for community forest resource management
    New Delhi: The Ministry of Tribal Affairs has clarified that Community Forest Resource Management Plans (CFRMPs) must be prepared by Gram Sabhas through their Community Forest Resource Management Committees (CFRMCs), in accordance with the Forest Rights Act and its rules, and not by the forest department or any other agency. *
    
    DEL15 SINOINDIA-WANG-VISIT
    * Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on two-day visit to India beginning Monday
    New Delhi: India and China are expected to discuss new confidence-building measures for durable peace and tranquillity along their contested border during Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi's two-day visit to India beginning Monday. *
    
    BOM2 MH-LAKE-OVERFLOW
    * Tulsi lake in Mumbai overflows after heavy rains; over 90 water stock in reservoirs
    Mumbai: With heavy rains lashing Mumbai and its suburbs, the Tulsi lake, one of the seven reservoirs supplying drinking water to the metropolis, has overflowed, a civic official said on Sunday. *
    
    BOM4 MH-SHARAD PAWAR-CONG
    * We toppled Vasantdada govt in 1978, but he proposed my name for CM 10 yrs later: Sharad Pawar
    Pune: NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar has said he led the move the topple the Maharashtra government headed by Vasantdada Patil in 1978, but the same leader proposed his name for the chief minister's post a decade later. *
    
    CAL2 AN-CINCAN-STRATEGIC HUB
    * Strategic significance making extra-regional forces foray into Andamans: Top army commander
    Port Blair: Lt General Dinesh Singh Rana, the Commander-in-Chief of the Andaman and Nicobar Command (CINCAN), has said that various “extra-regional forces” are making a foray into the archipelago, realising its strategic significance. By Sujit Nath *

    MDS4 KL-DOCUMENTARY-AWARD
    * Documentary filmmaker Rakesh Sharma chosen for IDSFFK lifetime achievement award
    Thiruvananthapuram: Noted documentary filmmaker Rakesh Sharma has been chosen for the lifetime achievement award of the 17th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK), to be held here from August 22 to 27. *
         
    MDS6 TN-STALIN-GUV
    * TN Guv doing 'cheap politics' than opposition: CM Stalin
    Dharmapuri (Tamil Nadu): Chief Minister M K Stalin on Sunday mounted a scathing attack on Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi, accusing him of doing "cheap politics" than the opposition and charged him with spreading canards against the ruling DMK and the party-led government. *
    
    MDS7 KA-FIRE-ARREST
    * Fire in plastic articles manufacturing unit: Building owner, son arrested after 5 killed
    Bengaluru: The building owner and his son were arrested in connection with the devastating fire that broke out in a plastic articles manufacturing unit near KR Market here, killing five people, including a family of four, police said on Sunday. *     
    
    LEGAL    
    
    LGD2 SC-CADETS-DISABILITY
    * SC takes suo motu note of plight of cadets suffering disability during military training
    New Delhi: The Supreme Court has taken suo motu cognisance of difficulties faced by cadets, who were medically discharged from military institutes on account of disabilities suffered during training programmes. *

    LGD1 DL-HC-DOWRY
    * Merely crying of woman cannot make out case of dowry harassment: Delhi HC
    New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has held that mere fact that a woman was crying, cannot per se make out any case of dowry harassment. *

    
    FOREIGN
    
    FGN10 NEPAL-LD MISRI
    * Foreign Secretary Misri calls on Nepal PM Oli
    Kathmandu: Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri on Sunday called on Nepal Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli during his two-day visit to the Himalayan nation. By Shirish B Pradhan *

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