May 11: Jewellery stocks crash after PM Modi’s appeal; SC allows Bengal voter roll pleas; Sri Lankan monk held in sexual abuse case

On News at 7, Taniya Dutta brings to you the evening's top headlines. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal against buying gold shakes the markets as jewellery stocks like Sky Gold, Senco Gold and Kalyan Jewellers tumble up to 12%, dragging Sensex and Nifty into the red. The Supreme Court allows fresh pleas over claims that voter deletions during West Bengal’s Special Intensive Revision may have impacted poll results in several Assembly seats. In Sri Lanka, influential Buddhist monk Pallegama Hemarathana Thero has been arrested over allegations of repeated sexual abuse of a minor. Tune in! Produced by Taniya Dutta Sound mixed by Rohan Bharti