A look at the headlines right now:
- Election Commission favours barring convicts from contesting polls for life: The polling monitor said in an affidavit that special courts should decide on criminal cases against people’s representatives and public servants.
- 2016 was the warmest year on record and human activities were to blame, says WMO: The World Meteorological Organisation, in its annual report, said the extremes will continue into 2017.
- US plans to bar airline passengers from over a dozen countries from carrying electronic devices larger than a phone: The department of homeland security is expected to announce the new rule on Tuesday, which will apply to some non-US carriers.
- Sand mining baron Sekar Reddy in ED’s custody after securing bail in CBI court: He was arrested in December 2016 after I-T raids found Rs 106 crore, of which Rs 10 crore was in new currency notes.
- Safety of Indians a priority over partnership with the US, Sushma Swaraj tells Rajya Sabha: The external affairs minister told the Upper House that the attacks on Indians in the US were ‘100% incidents of hate crimes’.
- FBI is investigating links between Donald Trump’s campaign associates and Russia, says James Comey: The FBI director also denied the US president’s claims that Barack Obama had bugged his NYC Trump Tower last year.
- RSS did not request Yogi Adityanath’s appointment as Uttar Pradesh CM, says Venkaiah Naidu: The Union minister asserted that the right-wing body never interferes or suggests any names for the post and asked the Opposition to be ‘graceful in defeat’.
- Third Test ends in draw after stiff resistance from Australia’s Peter Handscomb, Shaun Marsh: India’s Ravindra Jadeja finished with a match haul of 9/178 on a pitch that largely favoured the batters.
- Missing Indian clerics return to New Delhi, say Pakistan daily falsely called them ‘RAW agents’: They said they were untraceable because they were meeting devotees in the interiors of Sindh, which does not have phone connectivity.
- Idea Cellular, Vodafone India confirm merger to create India’s largest telecom company: Chairman of the Aditya Birla Group Kumar Mangalam Birla will head the merged entity.
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