A look at the headlines right now:
- Call for an ‘impossible recount’ is a scam, says US President-elect Donald Trump: Hillary Clinton’s campaign has joined the Green Party’s efforts to push for a recount of votes in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
- RBI sets cash reserve ratio at 100% to manage surplus liquidity caused by demonetisation: It has directed banks to park all incremental deposits made between September 16 and November 11 with the central bank.
- Fidel Castro, Cuba’s former president, dead at 90: Raul Castro, who announced his brother’s death, said he will be cremated on Saturday.
- Punjab, Haryana to seek president’s intervention to resolve Sutlej-Yamuna Link Canal dispute: Delegations led by the chief ministers of both states will meet Pranab Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Monday to put forth their cases.
- CJI criticises Centre for not clearing judicial appointments, providing infrastructure for tribunals: TS Thakur said that around 500 posts are lying vacant in high courts across the country.
- Nawaz Sharif selects Lieutenant General Qamar Javed Bajwa as new Pakistan Army chief: He will take over from Raheel Sharif on Tuesday.
- Badminton player PV Sindhu makes it to Hong Kong Super Series final: She defeated Ngan Yi Cheung 21-14, 21-16 in the semi-final match.
- Six arrested for printing fake Rs 2,000 notes near Hyderabad: The police also seized two photocopy machines and original notes to the tune of Rs 50,000.
- Demonetisation was announced to fulfill BJP’s political interests, says Mayawati: The BSP chief accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of emotionally blackmailing the people of the country.
- Amitabh Bachchan-starrer ‘Pink’ to be screened at UN headquarters in New York: The actor said he was ‘honoured’ by the invitation from the world body’s assistant secretary-general.
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