• Varanasi
  PM Modi’s parliamentary constituency ranking 418th out of 476 in Swachh Bharat rankings

• Pune
  Ex-SC judge P.B. Sawant joining other judges to form ‘Desh Bachao Agadi’, a body that wants an “RSS-mukt Bharat”

• Mangalore
  Joe Gonsalves, 94, with 75 years of experience behind the wheel in India, USA, Canada and UK, being appointed to lead a traffic warden squad

• Delhi
  The Shahi Imam of the 17th century mosque, Jama Masjid, denying reports that his son Shaban Bukhari is to marry a Hindu girl in November

• Chennai
  Arvind Thiruvengadam, 32, an alumnus of the University of Madras, being part of the team that discovered VW’s fudged emission ratings

• Hyderabad
  Congressmen welcoming new PCC chief N. Raghuveera Reddy in West God-avari by stuffing live pig-eons into rockets and firing them

• Los Angeles
  Seven brand-new Aston Mar-tins worth ￡24 million (Rs 238 crore) totalled for the new James Bond flick, Spectre

Contributed by Pavithra S. Rangan, Alka Gupta and Ashish Bagchi