A Mumbai court will today declare the quantum of punishment for the 12 convicts guilty of setting off a series of bomb blasts in suburban trains in Mumbai that killed 188 people nine years ago. On September 11, the Special MCOCA had convicted 12 of the 13 accused, all allegedly having links with banned outfit SIMI, while acquitting one.

Naval warship INS Kochi, a guided missile destroyer, will be launched today by defence minister Manohar Parrikar at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai. INS Kochi is the second ship of the Kolkata-class (Project 15A) Guided Missile Destroyers.

The Automotive Research Association of India is to submit a report on its investigation into possible violations of emission norms by Volkswagen. The Heavy Industries Ministry had ordered the investigation days after the US ordered a probe into the German carmaker for allegedly flouting emission norms.

A Delhi court will hear the arguments on AAP leader Somnath Bharti's plea seeking lodging of an FIR against police officials for “implicating” him in a case of alleged molestation of African women during his midnight raid last year.

Today is the last day for foreign asset holders to declare their unaccounted foreign assets under the black money law. The compliance window under the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015, enacted to deal with the menace of black money stashed abroad, closes today.

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