The following are PTI top stories at 1800 hours:

The following are PTI top stories at 1800 hours:

DEL41 BIZ-GDP

New Delhi: India's economic growth slips to a three-year low of 5.7 per cent in April-June as disruptions caused by demonetisation spill over to the third straight quarter amid slowdown in manufacturing activities.

MH-BUILDING-5TH LD COLLAPSE

Mumbai: A more than a century-old five-storey residential building collapses in the congested Bhendi Bazar area of south Mumbai, killing at least 19 people and wounding 12 others, officials say.

DEL23 LD INDOSWISS

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Swiss President Doris Leuthard hold extensive talks on bilateral, regional and international issues and also discuss ways to deepen bilateral cooperation in combating tax evasion and black money.
 

DEL28 UP-CHILDREN-CUSTODY

Gorakhpur (UP): Former principal of BRD Medical College Rajiv Mishra and his wife Purnima Shukla are sent to judicial custody for 14 days by a local court in connection with the deaths of scores of children in the state-run medical college hospital.

DEL13 MHA-SECRETARY-LD GAUBA

New Delhi: Seasoned bureaucrat Rajiv Gauba takes charge as the Union Home Secretary after superannuation of incumbent Rajiv Mehrishi.

DEL31 BJP-LD GUJARAT SHAH

New Delhi: With 'Mission-150' on his mind, BJP chief Amit Shah holds a strategy session with the party leaders tasked with leading its charge in the upcoming Gujarat assembly polls.

BOM14 MH-RAIN-DOCTOR-BODY

Mumbai: The body of renowned doctor Deepak Amrapurkar, who had gone missing on Tuesday following heavy rains in the city, is recovered from a nullah near the Coast Guard office in central Mumbai's Worli, police say.

LGD5 SC-ABORTION

New Delhi: The Supreme Court allows a Pune-based woman to abort her 24-week foetus, which does not have a skull or a brain.

MDS3 LANKA-FISHERMEN-LD ARREST

Rameswaram (TN): Eight fishermen from Tamil Nadu are arrested and their two boats seized by the Sri Lankan Navy in separate incidents for allegedly fishing in the island nation's territorial waters, fisheries department officials say.

MDS4 TN-AIADMK

Chennai: In the ongoing tug of war between the two camps of AIADMK, a minister releases a video purportedly of the late J Jayalalithaa's remarks against her aide V K Sasikala and her family.

FGN19 PAK-2NDLD BHUTTO

Islamabad: Pakistan's former dictator Pervez Musharraf is declared a fugitive by an anti-terrorism court which orders seizure of his property and sentenced two senior police officers to 17 years in jail in the Benazir Bhutto murder case, nearly 10 years after her assassination. By Sajjad Hussain

FGN17 BRICS-CHINA-PAK

Beijing: China says that concerns over Pakistan's counter-terrorism record is not an "appropriate topic" to be discussed at the next week's BRICS summit where Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to meet. By K J M Varma.