A look at the headlines right now:

  1. Mumbai Police arrest 39-year-old man on charges of harassing actor Zaira Wasim: Vikas Sachdeva was identified with the airline’s help and the description provided by the actor.
  2. Eight arrested for allegedly assaulting French tourists, their Indian friends in Mirzapur: One of the tourists said they were attacked with sticks.  
  3. Three suspected militants, one civilian killed in encounter in Jammu and Kashmir’s Handwara town: Director General of Police SP Vaid said the militants were ‘apparently Pakistanis’. 
  4. Police deny permission to Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi roadshows in Ahmedabad: Officials said the requests were rejected to avoid causing inconvenience to the public.  
  5. We are one ‘impulsive tantrum’ away from destruction, says chief of anti-nuclear weapon group Ican: Beatrice Fihn, who received the Nobel Peace Prize on Sunday, urged India to choose sense over senselessness and sign the UN treaty to ban nuclear weapons.
  6. ‘Do we really value human rights,’ asks former CJI RM Lodha, citing cow vigilantism, ‘love jihad’: He said the National Human Rights Commission had become a toothless tiger.  
  7. Palestinian man stabs Israeli guard in Jerusalem, clashes break out near US embassy in Beirut: The guard is reportedly in serious condition and is breathing using a respirator.
  8. Six-year-old girl raped and murdered in Haryana’s Hisar district, autopsy finds wooden stick was used: Two men allegedly raped a 15-year-old girl in Lucknow, and a passerby she approached for help assaulted her, too.
  9. Family of labourer who was hacked to death in Rajasthan wants case to be heard in West Bengal: The family said they fear harm if they travel to Rajasthan.
  10. Who is Max Born? Google doodle honours physicist for his contributions to quantum mechanics: Born won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1954 for his research in quantum mechanics.