1. UP's new Chief of Police, Sulkhan Singh says he will crush gundagiri and will not spare even VIPs 

2. Chief Minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal says he fears that the EVMs might be tampered with in the MCD polls being held in Delhi for power of the Captial's Municipal department.  

3. Newsweek reported that one of Al-Qaeda's last remaining leaders Ayman al-Zawahiri is being sheltered by Pakistan, and that his last wish is to see an attack on the United States. 

4. Tamil Nadu's Co-operatives Minister Sellur K Raju came up with a futile plan of stopping evaporation with sheets of thermacol on the surface of the water, to stop the river from drying up. 

5. Vivek Murthy, the first Indian-American Surgeon General of the USA is dismissed by the Trump administration to bring in a new person for the position. Murthy was appointed by the previous Obama administration. This comes amid growing concerns that the Trump administration is filled with anti-vaxxers and climate change deniers.