A look at the headlines right now:
- Kulbhushan Jadhav meets his mother and wife in Islamabad: Pakistan’s Foreign Office clarified its earlier statement and said this was a humanitarian meeting and not consular access to Jadhav,
- Narendra Modi inaugurates Delhi Metro’s Magenta Line, Arvind Kejriwal not invited: AAP leader Sanjay Singh called Kejriwal’s exclusion from the event a result of the Central government’s ‘cheap mentality’.
- Six killed in suicide attack near Afghanistan’s national intelligence agency in Kabul: The Islamic State claimed responsibility.
- Bengaluru techie missing for a week after he put his car up for sale on Olx: Ajitabh Kumar’s friends believe he had gone out to meet a prospective buyer for his vehicle.
- Mob beats up man for allegedly smuggling, slaughtering cows in Alwar, victim arrested: BJP MLA Gyan Dev Ahuja said that those who smuggle bovines may be killed.
- We are here to change the Constitution, says BJP minister Anantkumar Hegde: He said he has trouble with people who call themselves secular.
- Donald Trump criticised for tweeting image of blood-splattered CNN logo squashed under his shoe: ‘Grow up sir. Have you no sense of decency?’ a conservative radio host asked the president.
- Rahul Gandhi has pulled Congress out from the ashes, says Shiv Sena: The BJP’s ally said the saffron party’s campaign against the Congress president was unsuccessful.
- Guatemala to shift its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem: The announcement was made by President Jimmy Morales on Monday in a Facebook post.
- At least 95 cases of custodial rape reported from UP jails in 2015, finds parliamentary panel: The Committee on Empowerment of Women tabled its report, titled ‘Women in Detention & Access to Justice’, in the Parliament on Friday.
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