A look at the headlines right now:

  1. What law allows you to stop us from withdrawing our own money, Congress asks Centre: Party leader Anand Sharma accused the government of creating financial anarchy in the country with its demonetisation decision.
  2. Pakistan conducts military exercise near Indian border: Security officials said the drill, called ‘Raad Ul Barq’, showed how prepared Islamabad was to combat threats.
  3. ‘Post-truth’ declared Oxford Dictionaries’s word of the year: It is defined as an adjective ‘denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion’.
  4. Najeeb Ahmad went to Jamia Milia Islamia after leaving JNU hostel, say police: This is the first concrete piece of information investigators have been able to unearth about him, though they know little else.
  5. Special court allows ED to begin extradition process against Lalit Modi: A Mumbai-based Prevention of Money Laundering Act Court approved the Enforcement Directorate’s plea against the former Indian Premier League chairperson.
  6. Punjab Assembly resolves not to share water from its rivers with any other state: Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal also asked the government not to hand over land to any agency for the construction of the Sutlej-Yamuna Link canal.
  7. SBI writing off Kingfisher’s loan does not rule out a recovery, says Arun Jaitley: The finance minister said Vijay Mallya’s Rs 1,200 crore debt was a problem his government had inherited.
  8. India beat West Indies by 15 runs in 3rd ODI to complete 3-0 whitewash: Veda Krishnamurthy starred with the bat while Rajeshwari Gayakwad’s 4/34 bundled the visitors out cheaply.
  9. Google, Microsoft and Yahoo must filter out sex determination content online within 36 hours, says SC: The court also asked the Centre to form a nodal agency that will keep a check on keywords used on search engines.
  10. Twitter’s new mute button helps users block abusive comments and tackle trolls: Users will henceforth be able to compile their own list of unwanted words, phrases and emojis and weed those out from their pop-up notifications.