A look at the headlines right now:

  1. Supreme Court refuses urgent hearing in ongoing case challenging Aadhaar’s legality: No order was passed regarding the Unique Identity project’s mandatory status, with the chief justice of India declining to intervene.
  2. AK Saseendran says ‘unnatural’ news report made sexual harassment allegations against him: The former transport minister, who resigned after an incriminating audio clip was released, said an inquiry would be conducted into the claims.
  3. Meat sellers begin indefinite strike against crackdown on illegal slaughterhouses in Uttar Pradesh: Several butcher shops and abattoirs have complained that they are being targeted under the new dispensation.  
  4. Election Commission wants to limit cash donations to political parties to Rs 20 crore: To promote cashless funding, it has sought changes in laws to extend the tax exemption granted to voluntary donations to all made online or through cheques.
  5. Russia’s Opposition leader, hundreds of others arrested during countrywide anti-corruption protests: The police claimed the protestors were detained because they had held the demonstrations without permission.
  6. Woman burnt alive allegedly for objecting to cutting of trees near Jodhpur: The Borunda Police have registered a case against 10 people, including village head Ranveer Singh for the assault on the 20-year-old.  
  7. Post merger, SBI may reduce workforce by 10% over the next two years, says top official: The bank’s managing director said several employees would be offered the voluntary retirement scheme, and that dismissals were not an option.
  8. RSS-backed workshop had 51 varsity VCs discussing ways to add ‘Bharatiya perspectives’ in education: During their interaction with Mohan Bhagwat, participants suggested measures to create an autonomous academic ecosystem.
  9. Suspected militants attack PDP minister’s house in Anantnag, snatch weapons from guards in Kashmir: Two policemen were injured after the armed men resorted to heavy firing at the entrance to Syed Farooq Andrabi’s ancestral home.  
  10. Shiv Sena calls for shutdown in MP Ravindra Gaikwad’s Osmanabad constituency, after several airlines banned him: Party workers held rallies in support of the MP, who had hit an Air India employee multiple times with his shoe last week.