A look at the headlines right now:
- Modi and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu hold roadshow in Ahmedabad amid high security: The two leaders will inaugurate the iCreate centre at Deo Dholera Village in the city later on Wednesday.
- CJI Dipak Misra meets four dissenting Supreme Court judges to discuss judicial crisis, talks likely to continue on Wednesday: Senior lawyer Prashant Bhushan filed a complaint against the CJI in the medical college scam.
- Aadhaar programme designed to ‘tether citizens to electronic leash’, counsel tells SC: The government had made inalienable and natural rights of citizens dependent on acquiring an Aadhaar number, advocate Shyam Divan said.
- Centre withdraws Haj subsidy, will use funds for Muslim girls’ education: Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said the decision was in line with the agenda to empower minority communities ‘with dignity, without appeasement’.
- Trump’s former aide Steve Bannon asked to testify before grand jury about Russian meddling in US elections: The former White House chief strategist refused to answer questions posed by the House Intelligence Committee.
- Congress wants Madhya Pradesh CM booked after video purportedly shows him hitting a man: Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s office is yet to comment on the developments.
- Four people beat up Dalit man in Uttar Pradesh, force him to chant ‘Jai Mata Di’: The accused told the victim that he had insulted gods.
- Decomposed body of Haryana gangrape main accused found near Karnal-Kurukshetra border, say reports: The 15-year-old girl’s body was found near a canal in Jind on January 12.
- Two teenage boys allegedly rape 13-year-old girl at Hindon airbase in Ghaziabad: The accused have been booked for gangrape, molestation and under provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.
- Reserve police constable kills three people in firing at Daund: Head Constable Sanjay Shinde was reportedly involved in gambling and owed people a large amount of money.
- Suspected militants set ablaze nine oil tankers in Assam, no casualties reported: The attackers are believed to have taken away one tanker.
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