Top News Of The Day | In A First, Air Force Flypast For UP Expressway Inauguration

Prime Minister Narendra Modi this afternoon launched the 340-km Puvanchal Expressway in Uttar Pradesh, built at the cost of Rs 22,500 crore, shortly after he landed in an Air Force C-130J Super Hercules aircraft; after being pulled up by the Supreme Court on Monday, the centre called for a meeting of its CAQM - its air quality management commission; Lalit Goyal, the managing director of real estate group IREO, was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate today in a case related to the alleged swindle of home-buyers money; and more in the 8 pm news.