The air quality in Delhi showed a slight improvement on Sunday, prompting the Commission for Air Quality Management’s (CAQM) to decide against invoking stricter curbs under Stage 3 for now.

The battelines are drawn, positions taken, speeches delivered, and dice cast: in the next few hours, campaigning for the second and last phase of the Assembly polls in Bihar will come to an end. The second phase of polling will take place on Tuesday.

US lawmakers are working over the weekend as they seek a bipartisan deal to end the shutdown, which is now on day 40. 

​US lawmakers are working over the weekend as they seek a bipartisan deal to end the shutdown, which is now on day 40.