On 13 May, a charge sheet was filed by the National Investigating Agency before the Mumbai Special Court, in connection with the 2008 Malegaon blasts case.

The NIA has also dropped charges against Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur in the case. Thakur and Lft Colonel Prasad Shrikant Purohit were chargesheeted in 2009 by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad. The NIA took over the case in 2011.

The ATS charge sheet filed on 20 January, 2009, was against 14 accused, which included absconding accused Ramji Kasanghra, Sandeep Dange and Praveen Mutalik. In 2011, the ATS arrested Mutalik. The NIA arrested Lokesh Sharma in 2012.

There will be 53 farewell speeches at the Rajya Sabha today as its members elected from state legislatures retire, including 16 from the Congress and five BJP ministers. The BJP ministers retiring include Venkaiah Naidu, Piyush Goyal, Nirmala Sitaraman, YS Choudhry and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi. Naidu is the Parliamentary Affairs and Urban Development minister and was elected from Karnataka. Congress leader Jairam Ramesh is also retiring, according to NDTV.

The Delhi High Court has stayed all disciplinary actions against Jawaharlal Nehru Student Union President Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya, and others.

Nineteen students had gone on a hunger strike since 27 April, protesting the disciplinary actions taken against the students. Four of them including Kanhaiya and Khalid ended their fast after their health condition deteriorated.

The JNU Teachers Association had joined the students with a relay hunger strike and 100 academics from West Bengal had expressed their solidarity with the protesting students of JNU demanding the University's vice chancellor to open a dialogue with the students and reject recommendations of the high-level committee.

The railways has sent the collector of drought-stricken Latur a bill for Rs 4 crore as transportation charges for trains carrying water to the district. The trains have provided 6.20 crore litres of water since they were first flagged off last month.

The bill was made out and sent to the collector on the request of the Latur administration, said general manager of Central Railway SK Sood.

Sood added: "It is up to the district administration whether to pay us or seek waiver of the amount through proper channels. We sent the water transport bill as per their request."

The first water train reached Latur on 12 April 12, according to The Telegraph.

The family of Aditya Sachdeva who was shot dead in a road rage incident by in Gaya on Saturday demanded that the CBI take over the investigation into his murder after finding his blood-stained clothes in a dustbin outside a Gaya hospital.

The family handed over the clothes to the police who have sent it to a forensics lab, according to The Indian Express.

Aditya's killer, Rocky Yadav, is the son of a now suspended JDU MLC in Bihar. His mother Chand Sachdeva said: "We have no faith in the state police and want a CBI probe."

The Congress will move a privilege motion against BJP MP Subramanian Swamy on Friday, on the grounds that the documents he used while speaking on the Agusta Westland helicopter deal in the Rajya Sabha were bogus. The Congress will also go against defence minister Manohar Parrikar for the same reason.

Swamy had read from a 13-page document that he tabled and authenticated, says The Indian Express. However, according to Ramesh, the document included a two-page email that Swamy had sent to himself, nine pages from a website called pgurus.com, and two pages of a news report of a television channel.