The big news: Economic Survey flags climate change risk to farm incomes, and 9 other top stories
Other headlines: India reached under-19 World Cup final, and Bareilly DM said it has become a trend to shout anti-Pakistan slogans in Muslim localities.
A look at the headlines right now:
- Chidambaram says Centre has admitted failure to revive jobs and agriculture sectors: The Economic Survey said farm incomes can drop by 25% because of climate change, and also has a section on gender this year.
- Shubman Gill, Ishan Porel set up India’s 203-run win over Pakistan in U-19 World Cup: Porel bowled a brilliant spell at the start, reducing Pakistan to 28/4. Gill set up India’s win with an unbeaten hundred.
- Bareilly DM says it has now become a ‘trend’ to enter Muslim localities, shout anti-Pakistan slogans: District Magistrate Raghvendra Vikram Singh was referring to the violent communal clashes in Uttar Pradesh’s Kasganj on Republic Day.
- 28-year-old man in Delhi arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting his 8-month-old cousin: He was booked under the relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.
- SC asks Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to reply to contempt of court plea in cow vigilantism case: The apex court was hearing a contempt of court petition filed by Tarun Gandhi, the great grandson of Mahatma Gandhi.
- Toll in Murshidabad bus accident rises to 36, West Bengal government announces compensation: The rescue team pulled the bus out of the canal using cranes after eight hours.
- Andrew McCabe abruptly steps down as FBI deputy director: His departure comes ahead of a report that will review the FBI’s functioning in 2016 when the agency was probing the alleged Russian meddling in US elections.
- Telangana software engineer found dead in his apartment in Texas: The autopsy was completed and the body is likely to be flown to India by Thursday.
- Kerala HC issues notice to Centre after petitioners say orange-coloured passports are discriminatory: The government’s decision would lead to the segregation of people on the basis of their educational qualifications and economic status, the petitioners said.
- Punjab police officer shoots himself during a students’ protest against ‘moral policing’: The bullet Baljinder Singh Sandhu fired also hit a constable, leaving him critically injured.