News brief: Big stories of the day

Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday said that the grenade used in theattack on a religious congregationon the city outskirts of Amritsar was made under license by Pakistan ordinance factory and added that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) masterminded the attack.

The development came a day after senior PDP leader Muzzafar Hussain Baig showed his willingness to join the Third Front, currently led by Sajjad Gani Lone of the People's Conference.

BCCI CEO Rahul Johri was Wednesday cleared ofsexual harassment allegationsby the Committee of Administrators' three-member probe panel, which dismissed the charges levelled by at least two women as "mischievous and fabricated".

Turkey accused the United States on Wednesday of trying toturn a blind eyeto the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, and dismissed comments from President Donald Trump on the issue as "comic".

The wedding season has just begun in Bollywood. After Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh's dream-like wedding at Lake Como, Italy, Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas are all set to tie the knot in Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur in December.