A look at the headlines right now:

  1. CBI arrests former deputy general manager and two others in connection with PNB scam: Whistleblower Hari Prasad blamed the Registrar of Companies for not taking action against Mehul Choksi.
  2. India and Iran sign nine pacts, Modi praises Hassan Rouhani for helping develop Chabahar Port: The two leaders held ‘substantive and productive’ talks and discussed cooperation in defence, trade, energy and regional issues, the MEA said.
  3. ‘We don’t want trouble between India and China,’ says former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed: He said India was a ‘net provider of security’ for Indian Ocean nations.
  4. PM Narendra Modi told me to merge the two AIADMK factions, says O Panneerselvam: The Tamil Nadu deputy chief minister added that Modi had urged him to ‘continue with politics’.
  5. India aims to send Chandrayaan-II to moon’s south pole this April: The unmanned mission packs in ‘more power than the Apollo missions by NASA’, the government said.
  6. Prime accused gets four counts of death penalty in Pakistan rape and murder case: An anti-terrorism court also handed Imran Ali Naqshbandi one count of life term and fined him 32 lakh Pakistani rupees
  7. Arvinder Singh Lovely switches camps once again, rejoins Congress:The former party chief had joined the BJP in 2017 as he had differences with Ajay Maken.
  8. FBI admits it failed to act on a warning about the Florida school shooter: The agency had been made aware in September 2017 of a disturbing comment Nikolas Cruz had made online, and then in January it received a call on its tipline.  
  9. Release Kashmiri photojournalist Kamran Yusuf immediately, demands Committee to Protect Journalists: His works are ‘public service in the best spirit of journalism’, said the advocacy group.
  10. US indicts 13 Russians for attempting to interfere in 2016 presidential election: A few of them were reportedly in contact with ‘unwitting individuals associated with the Donald Trump’s campaign’, the prosecutors said.