Morning Digest | Two behead man for social media posts in Rajasthan; BJP seeks floor test in Maharashtra Assembly, and more

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Two behead man for social media posts in Rajasthan

Two persons beheaded a 40-year-old man in broad daylight at his tailoring shop in a market in Rajasthan’s Udaipur city on Tuesday, after an exchange of a series of inflammatory social media posts in the last few days.

BJP seeks floor test in House, Uddhav Thackeray makes fresh plea to rebels

 A BJP delegation led by Leader of the Opposition Devendra Fadnavis, along with senior leaders Ashish Shelar, Chandrakant Patil and Pravin Darekar, late on Tuesday night met Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari and raised the demand to ask the Thackeray government to prove majority at the earliest.

19 killed as building collapses in Mumbai’s Kurla area

Nineteen people were declared brought dead at hospitals after a four-storey building collapsed in the Kurla area of Mumbai around Monday midnight, civic officials said on Tuesday. Four have been admitted to hospitals and nine were discharged after treatment, officials said.

Sri Lanka runs out of fuel, comes to a near-standstill