#NewsInTweets: Fire Guts Delhi’s Natural History Museum; JNU Rusticates Umar And Anirban

By YKA Staff:

What’s the latest around the world today? Curated for you from the interwebz, here’s a quick morning fix to keep you updated. In 140 characters at that! Presenting, #NewsInTweets:

1. [envoke_twitter_link]Fire destroys Delhi’s National Museum of Natural History[/envoke_twitter_link]; parts of the FICCI building also destroyed.

2. [envoke_twitter_link]JNU rusticates Umar and Anirban for one semester[/envoke_twitter_link]; [envoke_twitter_link]Kanhaiya fined Rs. 10,000[/envoke_twitter_link].

3. [envoke_twitter_link]SC said it is “better to dance in bars than beg on streets”[/envoke_twitter_link] while hearing a petition challenging Mumbai’s dance bars on grounds of being “obscene”. The SC also called it a performance of art and said the state has to ensure there is no obscenity.

4. [envoke_twitter_link]Sushma Swaraj admitted to AIIMS after severe chest congestion[/envoke_twitter_link].

5. [envoke_twitter_link]Congress said they won’t let Parliament function until Uttarakhand crisis is resolved[/envoke_twitter_link], BJP’s Rajnath Singh said the issue is due to Congress’s internal problem.

6. [envoke_twitter_link]Mumbai court drops charges against 8 accused in the Malegaon Blast case[/envoke_twitter_link].

7. [envoke_twitter_link]Two gay rights activists hacked to death in Bangladesh[/envoke_twitter_link].