The big news: Supreme Court says CJI will decide allocation of cases, and nine other top stories
Other headlines: Mark Zuckerberg said he took responsibility for data leak, and suspected militants killed a soldier and a civilian in an encounter in Kashmir.
A look at the headlines right now:
- SC dismisses plea seeking rules to allocate cases in top courts, says CJI at helm of the institution: The petition had sought the Supreme Court to ensure Constitution Benches are comprised of the five senior-most judges.
- Zuckerberg apologises for data leak, says Facebook working with Robert Mueller on Russia inquiry: He appeared before US senators after it came to light that private information of 87 million Facebook users was harvested by Cambridge Analyitca.
- Suspected militants kill soldier, civilian in Jammu and Kashmir encounter: Two security personnel were injured in the gunfight, which is going on in Kulgam district’s Khudwani area.
- Postmortem report of Unnao rape survivor’s father shows 14 injuries: The man died in judicial custody on Monday.
- Om Mitharval bags bronze as Jitu Rai disappoints in 50m Pistol event: Shreyasi Singh clinched India’s 12th gold after dramatic finale in double trap.
- Tripura CM alleges Left taught students Marxist propaganda, promises to introduce NCERT syllabus: The communists wanted the people of the state to study Mao Zedong and forget our Hindu kings, Biplab Kumar Deb said during a NITI Aayog event in Agartala.
- Law Commission working on draft proposal on simultaneous elections, reports The New Indian Express: It proposes that a group of 19 states and Union territories go to the polls in 2019 when the Lok Sabha elections are scheduled.
- India, China hold disarmament talks in Beijing but NSG standoff continues: Beijing has been blocking New Delhi’s entry into the 48-member group that regulates global trade in nuclear material.
- Seven Myanmar soldiers sentenced to 10 years for killing Rohingya men, says Army: The men were hacked to death and buried in a mass grave in Rakhine’s Inn Din village in September.
- Supreme Court wants to see papers signed by Shah Jahan after Sunni Wakf board says it owns Taj Mahal: ‘Who in India will believe it belongs to the wakf board?,’ the bench said while hearing a petition filed by the Archaeological Survey of India.
