The big news: Amit Shah defends move to publish NRC in Assam, and nine other top stories
Other headlines: The UIDAI warned people against publicly sharing Aadhaar, and Modi thanked the Congress for allowing him to expose the Opposition’s hollowness.
A look at the headlines right now:
- ‘All parties should make their stand on Bangladeshi immigrants clear,’ says Amit Shah on NRC: The Supreme Court ordered the Centre not to take any coercive action against people left out of the draft NRC, while Bangladeshi minister Hasanul-Haque Inu said New Delhi had not discussed the issue of undocumented migrants with Dhaka.
- ‘Don’t share your Aadhaar number’, says UIDAI after telecom authority chief’s public challenge: The Aadhaar authority said that sharing the unique ID is not in accordance with the law.
- Modi thanks Congress for no-confidence motion, says it helped him expose the Opposition’s hollowness: The prime minister said the motion revealed the Opposition’s ‘political immaturity and lack of understanding and substance’.
- London’s historic India Club says redevelopment plans for restaurant have been rejected: A ‘Save India Club’ petition to Westminster City Coucil had been started this year, and received 26,000 signatures.
- SC says Constitutional scheme prohibiting exclusion of women ‘has some value’ while hearing Sabarimala case: The court dismissed the defence lawyer’s claim that Ayyappa devotees, who observe 41 days of penance, constitute a separate religious denomination.
- DMK chief Karunanidhi will need ‘an extended period of hospitalisation’: Kauvery Hospital said there was overall decline in his ‘general health, altered liver functions and haematological parameters’.
- Google celebrates Bollywood’s ‘tragedy queen’ Meena Kumari with doodle on her 85th birth anniversary: In a career spanning nearly four decades, Meena Kumari acted in over 90 films.
- No inquiry into gifts sent to Hasmukh Adhia in 2016 as he did not accept them, says Piyush Goyal: Adhia had surrendered items worth Rs 1.74 lakh to the Toshakhana of the Ministry of External Affairs.
- Circumcision is being equated to ‘mutilation’, defence tells top court during hearing on female genital cutting: Attorney General of India KK Venugopal had told the court that the practice of FGC ‘violates the preconditions of public order, morality and health’.
- US designates Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Abdul Rehman al-Dakhil, two others as global terrorists: Abdul Rehman al-Dakhil, was the operational leader of Lashkar-e-Taiba’s attacks in India between 1997 and 2001.