The Latest: Top stories of the day
1. Clashes continue in Kashmir's Kupwara district, injuring two more. Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti meets the families of the victims.
2. Four bombs were found in a car meant to pick up poll personnel in Malda, West Bengal. The state goes into its second phase of elections on Sunday.
3. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar says that to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party in the next Lok Sabha polls, all non-BJP parties would have to forge an alliance.
Weekend reads
1. In the Hindu, MK Narayanan cautions Delhi against conducting its foreign policy through the American prism.
2. In the Telegraph, Ramachandra Guha traces a history of errors made by the Congress in Kashmir.
3. In the Indian Express, Khalid Ahmed sees the project of Islamisation as a planned "retribalisation" of the state.
4. In the Guardian, Hadley Freeman has a bone to pick with "natural lifestyles".
5. Also in the Guardian, Aatif Nawaz takes apart the Channel 4 survey titled "What British Muslims Really Think", saying not all British Muslims think alike.
6. In the Times of India, Gautam Adhikari on how the nation myth is of fairly recent vintage.
7. In the Independent, Patrick Cockburn on how British and American intervention in Yemen has helped the al-Qaeda set up a mini state.
8. In the New Yorker, Collier Meyerson calls out the myth of a monolithic "black vote" in America.
9. In Mint-Lounge, Shamik Bag on life on Great Nicobar island, where residents are still recovering from the massive earthquake of 2004.
10. Also in the Telegraph, Ruchir Joshi on how no party has a roadmap to lead West Bengal out of the "nightmarish swamp".
