The Biggest Stories Of April 5, 2018

Actor Salman Khan has been sentenced to 5 years in jail by the Jodhpur court in the blackbuck poaching case. He will spend the night in Jodhpur jail as his bail plea will be heard on Friday; Finance Minister Arun Jaitley says he has a kidney related ailment and is working from a controlled environment at home; Parliamentary Affairs minister Ananth Kumar accuses Congress for disrupting Parliament by leading opposition protests, Sonia Gandhi hits back calling his accusations "lies"; As protests over the Cauvery water row spreads across Tamil Nadu, IPL matches in Chennai may come under threat; RBI holds firm on repo rate but says no trading in crypto-currency including bitcoin; all this and more on the news wrap of the day