The Latest: Top stories of the day
1. Headley flip-flop: key accused in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, David Headley now claims that he did not know Ishrat Jahan. He blamed the National Investigation Agency for recording his earlier statement incorrectly.
2. Uttarakhand horse-trading: Congress rebels may move the Supreme Court against speaker’s disqualification order even as a sting purports to show that the the chief minister was prepared to indulge in horse trading.
3. Another journalist, Deepak Jaiswal, has been arrested by the police in Bastar, Chhatisgarh. Jaiswal is the fourth Bastar journalist to be arrested in the past six months.
4. Marking a new level in Indo-Pak relations, a Pakistani team of investigators will land in Delhi today to help India probe the Pathankot terror attack.
5. Police assaulted University of Hyderabad supporters in Mumbai and then detained 17 of them.
6. The Hyderabad University registrar refutes claims that human rights violations had been committed on campus after reports of an “emergency-like” situation in the institution.
7. World Twenty20: Bad day for the subcontinent, as Bangladesh loses to New Zealand and Sri Lanka to England.
Weekend Reads
1. Assamese speakers now form less than 50% of the population Assam state. This key issue of identity will be a decider in the upcoming Assembly elections, writes Samudra Gupta Kashyap in the Indian Express.
2. The recent patch-up between the People's Demoractic Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party may only be a remarriage of convenience where divorce is looming on the horizon, argues Archis Mohan in the Business Standard.
3. The Murty Library debate: should a truly progressive, scientific society privilege belief over knowledge, asks Kanishk Tharoor in the Business Line.
4. In the Telegraph, Ruchir Joshi writes about the authenticity and innovation in modern Indian food.
5. A West Bengali immigrant in Kerala just won Rs 1 crore in a Kerala state government lottery. In the Indian Express, Arun Janaradhanan tells us why Malayalis are fascinated with lotteries.
6. I’ve seen the greatest AI minds of my generation destroyed by Twitter: in the New Yorker, Anthony Lydgate on how Microsoft’s chat bot Tay became a racist, sexist, trutherist, genocidal maniac.
7. The non-caricatured portrayal of Punjabis and Tamil Nadu in Kapoor & Sons is unusual in a Bollywood otherwise ridden by community stereotypes if not exclusions, says Anna MM Vetticad in the Business Line.
8. On the 100th anniversary of the Irish Easter Rising – an event which greatly influenced India’s freedom struggle – writers in the Guardian reflect on what the rebellion meant for them and their country.
9. In the Mantle, Vishwas Gaitonde views Narnia through a Hindu lens.
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