The Latest: Top stories of the day
1. In Jharkhand, at least 9,000 people were taken into preventive detention on Saturday, during a 24-hour bandh to protest against the state's new domicile policy.
2. China has been raising troop strength on the border with India, says the United States.
3. The Delhi Police has arrested Pushp Sharma, the journalist who wrote a report alleging that the Ayush ministry denied jobs to Muslims. The report was based on the fabricated RTI response, the ministry claims.
4. The Uttar Pradesh administration has rejected the Centre's water train, now packed with seven lakh litres of water and parked in Jhansi.

Weekend reads
1. In the Indian Express, Mohammad Taqi writes that the murder of blogger and activist Khurram Zaki in Karachi shows how the Pakistan Army's policy of distinguishing between "good" jihadists and "bad" is unravelling, and voices of criticism are being silenced.
2. In the Hindu, C Rangarajan on how India will need to overcome the slowdown in investments, forge better social and political cohesion to grow at 8% to 9%.
3. In the Business Standard, Shishir Prashant on the challenges before Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat, recently back in the saddle after winning a trust vote in the assembly and now gearing up for elections next year.
4. In Lounge-Livemint, Avantika Bhuyan on a three-part series and a documentary film that sheds new light on VS Gaitonde, India's highest valued abstract artist.
5. In Hindu-BLink, Jinoy Jose P on VS Achuthanandan, veteran of the Left and among the oldest candidates in the Kerala poll fray.
6. In the Guardian, Kenan Malik on why Muslims in Britain are not a "nation within a nation", as claimed by Trevor Philips, former Equality Commissioner.
7. In the New Yorker, Elif Batuman on the history and future of the bison, America's new national mammal.
8. In the London Review of Books, Sheng Yun on being an only child born during China's one-child policy years.
9. In the Times of India, SA Aiyar on what West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has learnt from her counterparts in Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and former chief minister Lalu Prasad.
10. In the Independent, Rupert Cornwell on how Barack Obama will become the first sitting president of America to visit Hiroshima, but there will be no apologies.