A look at the headlines right now:

  1. ‘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.
  2. ‘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.
  3. 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’.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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’.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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’.
  10. 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.