Former IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan, who resigned from service in 2019 as a mark of protesting the “shutdown” of Jammu and Kashmir following the abrogation of Article 370, joined Congress. Born in Kottyam in Kerala, Gopinathan believes that Congress can take the nation in the right direction.

Earlier, TMC supremo and Bengal CM Banerjee had sparked a row as she said colleges should not allow women students to step out late, after which she claimed her comments had been distorted. A 23-year-old medical student was gang-raped near her private college last week. Read more here.

Inspector Bhawna Chaudhary created history after becoming the air wing of BSF’s first woman flight engineer. She was awarded the flying badge by the BSF DG after completing two months of flight training.