Top 5 news at 1pm on September 26: Victory in 500th Test: India beat New Zealand to win Kanpur Test, take a 1-0 lead in three-match series

In its historic 500th Test match, Team India beat New Zealand by 197 runs to win the first Test to take 1-0 lead in the three-match series at Green Park in Kanpur on Monday.

1. Victory in 500th Test: India beat New Zealand to win Kanpur Test, take a 1-0 lead in three-match series  

In its historic 500th Test match, Team India beat New Zealand by 197 runs to win the first Test to take 1-0 lead in the three-match series at Green Park in Kanpur on Monday. After reducing the Kiwis to 205-7 at lunch, India claimed the three remaining wickets to clinch the opening Test on the fifth day in Kanpur.

2. Sushma Swaraj's speech at UNGA today: 5 things Indian foreign minister must raise against Pakistan at United Nations

India's External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will be under the global arc lights like never before when she starts her much-awaited speech at the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly at 7:15 pm on Monday.

In her second consecutive speech at the 193-nation body, Swaraj is likely to raise India's concerns after the recent Uri attack and about the the evidences revealing Pakistan's direct involvement in the terror attacks in India.

3. PM Narendra Modi chairs meeting on Indus Waters Treaty in Delhi; FS Jaishankar, NSA Doval in attendance

 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday chaired a meeting on Indus Waters Treaty in New Delhi. According to early reports, Foreign  Secretory Jaishankar, National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and PM's principal secretary Nripendra Misra were also at the meeting.

4. 1,000 villagers evacuated as floods wreack havoc in Telangana

With heavy downpour pummelling Telangana over the past few days, authorities are keeping a watch on the flood situation even as over 1,000 villagers were evacuated in Karimnagar district.

The water from the under-construction Mid Manair Dam in Boinapally mandal of Karimnagar had started overflowing from the bund and the earthen embankment had got breached, resulting in floods in the area.

5.  Karnataka moves SC seeking modification of Cauvery order, expresses inability to release 6,000 cusecs water to TN

Karnataka moved Supreme Court on Monday seeking modification of its order asking it to release 6,000 cusecs of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu. Karnataka has expressed its inability to release water as directed by SC, says its reservoirs do not have adequate water.

Earlier Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in which he stated that the state will move an application before the Supreme Court on Monday seeking changes in the apex court’s order of September 20 on the Cauvery issue.