A look at the headlines right now:

  1.  Two convicts given life term by special NIA court in 2007 Ajmer blasts case: Devendra Gupta and Bhavesh Patel had earlier been asked to pay a fine of Rs 1 lakh each. 
  2. Meat shops set on fire in UP’s Hathras even as Yogi Adityanath orders closure of slaughterhouses: The establishments’ owners, who are Muslims, have not filed a police complaint yet.
  3. Rajya Sabha passes Bill that ensures free treatment to anyone living with HIV or AIDS: Governments will have to provide free anti-retroviral therapy to patients and they cannot be discriminated against for jobs or education.
  4. Indian police helped Scotland Yard hack into email accounts of activists, claims whistleblower: The information was then passed on to the Metropolitan Police, who illegally spied on them till as late as 2016.
  5. Show-cause notices served to protesting doctors in Maharashtra, JJ Hospital starts expulsion process: State minister Girish Mahajan said the protesting doctors will face six months’ expulsion if they do not resume work by 8 pm.   
  6. SC adjourns hearing plea against clean chit to Advani and others till tomorrow in Babri Masjid demolition case: The bench had earlier hinted that it might revive conspiracy charges against the senior BJP leaders in connection with the case.  
  7. Apple products go red to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS in Africa: New iPad will measure 9.7 inches and it will start from $329.
  8. India slips one position to 131 on Human Development Index: Sri Lanka and Bangladesh fared better on the report prepared by the United Nations.
  9. Several institutes in UGC’s list of fake universities do not exist, say states: The list has colleges which have shut shop two decades ago or operate from places that do not exist.  
  10. Bengaluru woman booked for ‘objectionable’, ‘defamatory’ Facebook posts about Yogi Adityanath: BJP’s Yuva Morcha members had filed a complaint against her accusing her of sharing “obscene, morphed and tampered” images of the newly appointed UP CM.