A look at the headlines right now:

  1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanks Delhi for their ‘faith’ in BJP after it sweeps MCD elections: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal congratulated the winning party and state Congress president Ajay Maken resigned from his post.
  2. No credibility in ex-Taliban spokesperson’s claims of India, Afghanistan funding militants, says Centre: The Pakistani military released a confessional video in which Ehsanullah Ehsaan claims that RAW and NDS helped the outfit to fight Islamabad.
  3. Supreme Court suggests enacting a law to regulate NGOs, their funding using public money: The bench noted that the guidelines submitted by the Centre may not be ‘systematic’ enough to deal with the process of accreditation, funding and audit.
  4. United States jury indicts two doctors of Indian origin in female genital mutilation case: The duo, along with one of their wives who was also indicted, were accused of conspiring to perform the banned procedure on minor girls in Michigan.
  5. New CRPF chief appointed two days after 25 personnel killed in Sukma ambush: Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar is from the 1983 batch of IPS.
  6. Delhi court sends AIADMK Amma leader Dinakaran to police custody for 5 days: He was produced in Delhi’s Tis Hazari court in connection with an Election Commission bribery case.
  7. ‘Don’t arrest rowdy elements, call their parents’, UP Police chief tells anti-Romeo squads: He has issued a list of dos and don’ts for the squads to follow.
  8. Jet Airways ‘de-rosters’ expat pilot over racial abuse allegations made by Harbhajan Singh: The cricketer claimed that the airline’s staffer had referred to a flyer as a ‘bloody Indian’ and assaulted a woman and a disabled man on board the flight.
  9. India moves Pakistan court, seeks consular access to Kulbhushan Jadhav: Indian High Commissioner in Islamabad Gautam Bambawale met Pakistan foreign secretary Tehmina Janjua and reiterated Delhi’s stand.
  10. ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ director Jonathan Demme dies at 73: The Oscar-winning filmmaker had been suffering from oesophageal cancer, his publicist said.