The Supreme Court dismissed a PIL demanding the immediate execution of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case. "What kind of prayer you are making," the apex court bench said. Petitioner Alakh Alok Srivastava in the plea said that the delay in execution of death penalty is acting as a bad precedent.

Google revealed that its video-sharing platform YouTube took down over 58 million videos in the third quarter of 2018. The technology giant revealed that the removal came over policy violations of the content related to spam, nudity and child safety issues. YouTube also removed over 224 million comments and nearly 1.7 million channels.

Denying the rumours of being hospitalised, veteran singer Lata Mangeshkar tweeted, "Meri sehat ke baare mein kuch afwaahein uth rahi hain. Lekin aap in par vishwas na karein. Main bilkul swasth hun aur apne ghar mein hun." Recently, while addressing rumours of her retirement from singing, she had said, "I will continue to sing till my last breath."