A look at the headlines right now:

  1. Triple talaq bill tabled in Lok Sabha, Asaduddin Owaisi says it violates fundamental rights: Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the legislation intends to secure rights and justice for women.
  2. 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’. 
  3. 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 premises on Thursday.
  4. 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.   
  5. At least 40 killed, dozens injured in suicide attack at cultural centre in Kabul: The Taliban has said it was not involved.
  6. 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’. 
  7. There’s no data on female genital cutting in India, Women and Child Development Ministry tells SC: The ministry’s affidavit to the top court contradicts WCD Minister Maneka Gandhi’s earlier stand.
  8. Without naming India, China says its economic corridor plan does not target any ‘third party’: The initiative would rather ‘bring benefit for the third party’, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said.
  9. Piyush Goyal orders railway officials to strengthen cyber security systems after CBI unearths alleged ticketing scam: The CBI arrested a software programmer working for the agency, an an IRCTC employee for allegedly operating an illicit software to book tickets.   
  10. Syrian children waiting to be evacuated may be used as bargaining chips, warns UN: The evacuations of patients requiring urgent medical attention began on Tuesday.