Refusing to pass an order, SC has said Congress-leader P Chidambaram's plea challenging the Delhi HC order dismissing his petition for pre-arrest bail in the INX media-case will be put before the CJI to consider for urgent listing. The CBI, meanwhile, continues its efforts to locate Chidambaram even as the former Union-finance-minister's legal-team asked the agency not to take any coercive action against him.

A global study at the University-of-Oxford has found that packaged foods and drinks available in India are the least healthy, with high levels of saturated fat, sugar and salt. The university's George-Institute for Global-Health analysed more than 400,000 food and drink-products from 12-countries and territories around the world. It found that the UK tops the charts, with US in the second-place and Australia third.

Wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest have hit a record number this year, with 72,843 fires detected so far by Brazil's space research center INPE, as concerns grow over right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro's environmental policy. The surge marks an 83% increase over the same period of 2018, the agency said on Tuesday, and is the highest since records began in 2013.