A look at the headlines right now:

  1. All public banks, some private banks will waive debit card service charges this year: The Supreme Court agreed to transfer all petitions against demonetisation to a single court.
  2. Pakistan claims Indian shelling killed several passengers on a bus in PoK:Inter Services Public Relations on Twitter said Indian forces ‘resorted to unprovoked firing’ along the LoC.
  3. Larsen and Toubro lays off 14,000 employees in bid to ‘right size’ citing economic slowdown: The Indian engineering giant sacked 11.2% of its staffers in six months leading to September despite reporting an 84.3% increase in second quarter net profit.
  4. Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh resigns from Lok Sabha: The senior leader had said that his party would not participate in Wednesday’s special Assembly session called to discuss the dispute.
  5. SC rules in favour of Reliance Communications in Rs 4,800-crore tax case: The I-T department had claimed that proceeds from the company’s Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds were ‘unexplained cash credits’.
  6. 35-year-old arrested for raping three-and-a-half-year-old girl, leaving her in a pit: The accused allegedly lured the child with the promise of a chocolate.
  7. Vietnam scraps plan to build its first nuclear plants because of economic and environmental concerns: The cost of the project reportedly went up to 400 trillion dong ($18 billion), twice the initial budget set in 2009.
  8. AIR snubs Manipur government festival saying state did nothing after a blast on its premises: The station’s staff did not air any information on the event till the deputy chief minister came to them and promised to take action.
  9. Twitter suspends its own CEO Jack Dorsey’s account for half an hour: This triggered rumours that the social networking platform’s co-founder had been sacked.
  10. Six Maoists killed by CRPF in an encounter in Latehar: Firearms were found at the spot where the gunbattle took place between the CoBRA battalion and the rebels.