The big news: BJP retains all three civic bodies in Delhi, and nine other top stories
Other headlines: India has rejected claims of funding Taliban militants in Pakistan, and the Supreme Court recommended enacting a law to regulate NGOs.
A look at the headlines right now:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- New CRPF chief appointed two days after 25 personnel killed in Sukma ambush: Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar is from the 1983 batch of IPS.
- 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.
- ‘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.
- 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.
- 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.
- ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ director Jonathan Demme dies at 73: The Oscar-winning filmmaker had been suffering from oesophageal cancer, his publicist said.