A look at the headlines right now:

  1. Union Cabinet approves privatisation of debt-ridden national carrier Air India: The airline has a total debt of more than Rs 52,000 crore, an annual interest of Rs 4,500 crore and has been surviving on a Rs 30,000-crore bailout package.
  2. Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell charged with multiple child sex offences in Australia: The 76-year-old Catholic official has denied all allegations and will ‘defend the charges vigorously’, a statement said.
  3. ‘Not in My Name’ echoes across India as citizens hold protests against lynchings: People came together in at least ten cities to show their support for the campaign.
  4. ‘GST launch another epic blunder by the Centre’: Mamata Banerjee says TMC will skip event: In a Facebook post, the West Bengal chief said that the government had ignored her party’s suggestions to postpone the launch of the new tax regime.
  5. Haryana Police arrest four more for murder of Muslim boy in Ballabhgarh: Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu condemned the stabbing, saying no one can take the law into their hands.
  6. Cabinet approves 7th Pay Commission recommendations, raises medical allowance for pensioners: The move will benefit more than 47 lakh central government employees.
  7. Ten detained after over 100 beat up Muslim man in Jharkhand over suspicion of cow slaughter: The mob set part of his house on fire after finding a cow’s carcass outside it.
  8. Mustafa Dossa, a convict in the 1993 Bombay blasts case, dies: He was admitted to JJ Hospital in the city after he had complained of chest pain.
  9. Mob attacked officers trying to arrest three for cow slaughter in Muzaffarnagar, claim police: They alleged that the crowd had injured four personnel in stone-pelting and damaged their vehicle.
  10. ‘Will execute South’s ex-president for plotting to assassinate Kim Jong-un’: North Korea: The perpetrators will receive a ‘miserable dog’s death’, the country said in a statement.