A look at the headlines right now:
- Political parties welcome SC’s decision to reconsider law criminalising homosexuality: The Supreme Court on Monday said it would revisit the constitutional validity of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which criminalises anal and oral sex.
- Journalist who exposed Aadhaar data breach deserves an award, not investigation, says Edward Snowden: Police suspect the role of UIDAI insiders in the case, and a report said UIDAI has blocked all officials from accessing the Aadhaar portal.
- Delhi Police deny permission to Jignesh Mevani’s rally but organisers say they will go ahead with it: The Gujarat MLA and peasant leader Akhil Gogoi are scheduled to address the Yuva Hunkaar Rally at noon on Parliament Street.
- Army chief says incident of Chinese ‘incursion’ in Arunachal Pradesh has been resolved: General Bipin Rawat added that there had been a major reduction in the numbers of Chinese troops posted near the Doklam tri-junction in the Sikkim sector.
- Padmavati renamed Padmavat, to be released on January 25: Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje said she will not allow the movie to be screened in the state.
- Case against Uttar Pradesh CM Adityanath among 20,000 to be withdrawn as governor approves bill: The case – filed against the CM in 1995 for allegedly making a hate speech in Gorakhpur – will be withdrawn as per a bill to amend the UP Criminal Law Act.
- North and South Korea begin high-level talks to discuss Winter Olympics, bilateral ties: The dialogue began at 10 am at the border truce village of Panmunjom.
- Karnataka BJP youth leader arrested for allegedly harassing 20-year-old, abetting her suicide: MV Anil and four other Hindutva activists in Mudigere are believed to have hounded the woman for saying she liked Muslims on a WhatsApp group.
- ‘We need you in the fight against divisive forces at home’, Rahul Gandhi tells NRIs in Bahrain: ‘I am here to build a bridge between wherever you are in the world and home,’ the Congress president told the Indian diaspora.
- Use ‘vidyalaya’, ‘prince’, ‘bholu’ to refer to school, accused and victim of Gurguram murder, says court: It gave this order while rejecting the bail petition of the 16-year-old boy accused of murdering a Class 2 student of the same school.
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