The Latest: Top stories of the day
1. US Secretary of State John Kerry spoke to Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif about "swiftly" carrying out an investigation into the Pathankot attacks.
2. West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday insisted that the recent violence in Malda is "not communal."
3. The role of personnel from the Border Security Force and local police has come under the scanner, as authorities investigate the manner terrorists used to cross the border in Punjab.
Weekend Reads
1. Mitali Saran in the Business Standard sums up the entire Pathankot story (and adds cake).
2. India's failure to make any headway with Pakistan at the Tashkent summit in 1966 illustrates how we continue to function, writes K Shankar Bajpai in the Indian Express.
3. Ellen Barry in the New York Times goes to Faridkot, Punjab, to experience the old royal sport of greyhound racing.
4. Indian women are never taught how to be alone, writes Kavitha Rao in Buzzfeed, and that's a problem.
5. Anisha Seth and Sarayu Srinivasan in the News Minute explain how a 35-year-old meat ban has added confusion to Mangalore's communal problem.
6. Dilip D'Souza in Mint struggles to put the 1,000-run innings into context.
7. The Indian Express' Probing Pathankot series takes a long hard look at all the murky details in the attack.
8. Anoo Bhuyan in Blink meets some former juvenile convicts to understand what ails India's juvenile justice system.
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