- Bangalore Ambulances mounted on motorcycles launched to overcome the traffic problems in the city
- New Delhi Sonia Gandhi receives organic vegetables grown at the former HQ of the NAC, thanks to current incumbent Nitin Gadkari
- Thiruvananthapuram The Congress-owned TV channel Jaihind TV being taken off air for 24 hours for airing an adult film, Hai Harithe, at prime time
- New Delhi 36 candidates being interviewed for the directorship of three IITs in roughly three hours, at the rate of 10 minutes per person
- Chandigarh Sonam Kapoor playing the role of Neerja Bhanot in the biopic being filmed on the PanAm staffer gunned down by terrorists inside the plane after she’d shepherded many of the passengers to safety
- Chennai The Hotel Appletree serving an Akshaya Thriti special, a ‘thanga dosa in velli thattil’ (gold dosa on a silver platter), which has 23.5 carat edible gold in it. A cheaper ‘silver dosa’ also on the menu.
- London A councillor has suggested contraceptive pills for pigeons to overcome UK’s “bird problem”
Compiled by Uttam Sengupta and Alka Gupta
