A look at the headlines right now:

  1. Political parties welcome SC’s decision to reconsider law criminalising homosexuality: The Supreme Court on Monday said it would revisit the constitutional validity of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which criminalises anal and oral sex.
  2. Journalist who exposed Aadhaar data breach deserves an award, not investigation, says Edward Snowden: Police suspect the role of UIDAI insiders in the case, and a report said UIDAI has blocked all officials from accessing the Aadhaar portal.
  3. Delhi Police deny permission to Jignesh Mevani’s rally but organisers say they will go ahead with it: The Gujarat MLA and peasant leader Akhil Gogoi are scheduled to address the Yuva Hunkaar Rally at noon on Parliament Street.
  4. Army chief says incident of Chinese ‘incursion’ in Arunachal Pradesh has been resolved: General Bipin Rawat added that there had been a major reduction in the numbers of Chinese troops posted near the Doklam tri-junction in the Sikkim sector.
  5. Padmavati renamed Padmavat, to be released on January 25: Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje said she will not allow the movie to be screened in the state.
  6. Case against Uttar Pradesh CM Adityanath among 20,000 to be withdrawn as governor approves bill: The case – filed against the CM in 1995 for allegedly making a hate speech in Gorakhpur – will be withdrawn as per a bill to amend the UP Criminal Law Act.
  7. North and South Korea begin high-level talks to discuss Winter Olympics, bilateral ties: The dialogue began at 10 am at the border truce village of Panmunjom.
  8. Karnataka BJP youth leader arrested for allegedly harassing 20-year-old, abetting her suicide: MV Anil and four other Hindutva activists in Mudigere are believed to have hounded the woman for saying she liked Muslims on a WhatsApp group.
  9. ‘We need you in the fight against divisive forces at home’, Rahul Gandhi tells NRIs in Bahrain: ‘I am here to build a bridge between wherever you are in the world and home,’ the Congress president told the Indian diaspora.
  10. Use ‘vidyalaya’, ‘prince’, ‘bholu’ to refer to school, accused and victim of Gurguram murder, says court: It gave this order while rejecting the bail petition of the 16-year-old boy accused of murdering a Class 2 student of the same school.