Reserve Bank of India slashes growth forecast for the current financial year from 6.9 to 6.1 per cent, Lending rate also cut by 25 basis points to 5.15%; BJP and the Shiv Sena announce seat sharing formula ahead of Maharashtra Assembly Elections, BJP to contest 164 seats, Sena 124; Bombay High Court refuses to stop tree cutting in Mumbai's Aarey for metro carshed, activists claim tree felling has already begun; Indian Air Force chief Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria says the IAF shot down it's own chopper on February 27, was a big mistake; Supreme Court advances the deadline for completing arguments in the Ayodhya land dispute by October 17; Nationalism not a negative sentiment, world becoming more nationalistic, India too is more nationalistic, says S Jaishankar; Sedition case is filed in Bihar against nearly 50 celebrities, including Ramachandra Guha, Mani Ratnam and Aparna Sen, for an open letter to the Prime Minister against lynchings