A look at the headlines right now:

  1. Amid NRC uproar, demands begin for similar counting exercise in Delhi, West Bengal, Nagaland: NRC coordinator says 40 lakh people left out of the second draft cannot all be called ‘infiltrators’.
  2. Supreme Court bars electronic media from showing minor girls’ images, even in blurred forms, of those raped at a shelter home in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur: The court took suo motu cognisance of the matter and issued notices to the Centre and the Bihar government.
  3. SIT asks court to discard Amit Shah’s deposition for Maya Kodnani in the 2002 Naroda Gam massacre case: The investigation team said that the BJP chief’s statement was intended only to support former Gujarat minister Maya Kodnani.
  4. Supreme Court calls adultery law absurd and peculiar, says it fails the test of arbitrariness: The petitioner’s counsel said he does not seek to make the provision gender-neutral, but to declare it unconstitutional.
  5. ‘Country, not government, loses the most due to parliamentary disruptions,’ says Narendra Modi: The prime minister said it is important for MPs to express the voice of the poor and the marginalised.
  6. Uttar Pradesh PWD says damage worth Rs 10 lakh done to bungalow vacated by ex-CM Akhilesh Yadav: The 266-page report highlights that the tiles and electrical wiring of the bungalow have suffered extensive damage. 
  7. Centre writes to Karnataka on lifting night traffic ban on NH 766 passing through Bandipur reserve: The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has recommended constructing flyovers and widening the highway, against advice to the contrary.
  8. Centre is committed to stake sale of Air India, but has no plans to exit completely, says Jayant Sinha: The minister of state for civil aviation said the present environment is not conducive to disinvestment.
  9. Skymet revises monsoon rain forecast from normal to below normal: The private weather forecaster said that the country would receive 88% of the average rain in August, but IMD said the prediction is premature.
  10. Scientists write to President Ram Nath Kovind, seek his intervention in transfer of ISRO official: Tapan Misra, who was the director of Space Applications Centre, was appointed senior advisor to ISRO chairperson K Sivan on July 19.