A look at the headlines right now:

  1. Pakistan says it is considering giving Kulbhushan Jadhav’s mother a visa: Islamabad said Sushma Swaraj’s condition asking Pakistani patients, seeking medical visas, to provide the foreign affairs’ minister’s approval was undiplomatic.
  2. Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese dissident and Nobel Prize winner, dies in Shenyang: Officials said the human rights activist succumbed to multiple organ failure.
  3. British government publishes draft Bill that will end its membership to the EU: The legislation includes a clause that says the European Union charter of fundamental rights will not be part of domestic laws.
  4. Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif says he will not resign: The call for his resignation was raised after a Joint Investigation Team found him and his family guilty in the Panama Papers case.
  5. With AAP, Opposition’s pick for president Meira Kumar now has 18 parties supporting her: Senior leader Sanjay Singh said Kumar had called up Arvind Kejriwal to seek his backing.
  6. Kiren Rijiju conducts an aerial survey of flood-hit Assam, calls for rescue operations to be sped up: The Union minister met district administration officials in Lakhimpur, the region worst affected by the deluge.
  7. Amid Sikkim standoff, India rejects China’s offer to mediate Kashmir dispute: A Chinese Foreign Office spokesperson had said Beijing was ready to play a ‘constructive role’ in resolving the matter.
  8. SC closes contempt case against ex-BCCI chief Anurag Thakur after his unconditional apology: He said he had never intended to undermine the top court’s majesty.
  9. A Democrat has introduced the first article in the US Congress to impeach President Donald Trump: A White House spokesperson called it ‘utterly and completely ridiculous’ and ‘a political game at its worst’.
  10. Walmart’s Rs-900 crore project will create 30,000 jobs in Maharashtra: The 15 stores it plans to open in the state will cater to wholesalers alone.