A look at the headlines right now:

  1. Pakistan turned Kulbhushan Jadhav’s meeting with family into a propaganda tool, says Sushma Swaraj: The External Affairs minister said Islamabad’s claim that there was a something in Jadhav’s wife’s shoes was ‘absurd’.
  2. BJP minister Anantkumar Hegde apologises for remark on changing Constitution, says he respects it: The Union minister clarified on his controversial statements about the Constitution after the Congress protested inside Parliament’s premises on Thursday.
  3. Centre to borrow additional Rs 50,000 crore from markets in January-March: The decision is likely to take the fiscal deficit for 2017-’18 beyond the government’s target of 3.2% of the Gross Domestic Product.  
  4. UP Police suspend two officers for negligence during Narendra Modi’s visit to Noida: The prime minister’s convoy took a different route than the one sanitised for his commute.   
  5. BJP-ruled South Delhi Municipal Corporation proposes no ‘non-veg food’ on display outside eateries: A councillor from the party said meat dishes posed a hygiene problem and ‘hurt the sentiments of people who are vegetarian’.  
  6. BJP sacks Ghaziabad chief who created a ruckus at a Hindu-Muslim wedding: Ajay Sharma was among the 100 who were booked for disrupting the wedding function, calling it a case of ‘love jihad’. 
  7. 10 injured in an explosion at a supermarket in Russia’s St Petersburg: No one has claimed responsibility for the blast.
  8. Three men arrested in Delhi for allegedly raping a model on the pretext of helping her secure work: In another case, a 60-year-old man was arrested for allegedly raping two minors in Delhi. 
  9. Income Tax officials search six premises in Tamil Nadu linked to Sasikala and her relatives: These searches are a continuation of the ones that were conducted in November, an official said.   
  10. Top IT firms have formed a cartel to keep entry-level salaries low, says former Infosys board member: Mohandas Pai called the practice ‘ethically and morally wrong’.