A look at the headlines right now:

  1. Transport services limp back to normalcy after flood water recedes in Kerala: The Kerala Road Transport Corporation restored most of its services on Monday except operations in Idukki district where landslides have made roads inoperable.
  2. Saurabh Chaudhary wins India’s first shooting gold, Abhishek Verma gets bronze: This is the first time in Asian Games history that two Indian shooters have finished on the podium in the same event.  
  3. NOTA option cannot be permitted in Rajya Sabha elections, says Supreme Court: The top court was hearing a plea against an Election Commission notification allowing legislators the option to reject candidates in polls to the Upper House.  
  4. Clashes between militants, security forces under way after rockets attack Kabul: Two insurgents have been killed so far. 
  5. Mob beats up woman, parades her naked on suspicion of murdering a man in Bihar: The mob also set several shops on fire and thrashed other locals.
  6. Delhi court sends two suspects in Umar Khalid attack case to two-day police custody: The men had claimed in a video clip that they had attacked the student leader as an Independence Day gift to the people.
  7. Two shelter home infants die allegedly of malnutrition in Jharkhand, inquiry ordered: One of the babies was reportedly relocated from the Missionaries of Charity-run organisation that is being investigated.  
  8. Unite to stop ‘disturbing trend’ of intolerance, says former PM Mammohan Singh: The Congress leader was addressing the Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Award function in New Delhi.  
  9. NASA says its instrument aboard India’s Chandrayaan-I has discovered ice water on the moon: The space agency said that most of the ice water on the satellite lies in the shadows of craters, on the poles.  
  10. SC asks Jammu & Kashmir to reply on plea claiming torture of Kathua case witness in police custody: Talib Hussain had spearheaded a campaign demanding justice for the family of the girl who was raped and murdered in January in Kathua.