These are the stories we are covering this evening: Metroman Sreedharan to contest for BJP from Palakkad in Kerala; democracy under attack, Mamata says as EC declares Nandigram incident an accident; Surat college, two schools shut for 2 weeks as 20 students contract Covid-19; Parineeti Chopra urges Zomato to ‘publicly report the truth’ and ‘fearless’ Rishabh Pant’s technique is ‘fortified’ with common sense: Ian Chappell.