Above the Fold: Top stories of the day
1. The Supreme Court's deputy registrar resigned from his post following the hanging of Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon, calling it a "judicial abdication" and one of the court's "darkest hours."
2. Landslides caused by heavy rains have killed 20 in Manipur, with many rivers still in spate.
3. A three-judge committee probing allegations of sexual harassment by a former sessions judge against Justice SK Gangele of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has said there was insufficient material to establish the charge.
The Big Story: Whose terror?
There hasn't exactly been any resolution to the matter of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj or Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje in the Lalit Modi controversy. Or the allegations against Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan. And then there was the attack in Gurdaspur. Amidst all of this, Home Minister Rajnath Singh decided to open another front by criticising the Congress for coining the phrase "Hindu terror" years ago, prompting angry retorts from Congress members. With yet another issue to agitate about, don't expect much work in Parliament any time soon.
Weekend Reads
1. Tunku Varadarajan in the Indian Express calls for another apolitical President to succeed Pranab Mukherjee, and puts forward cricketer Rahul Dravid's name.
2. The Gurdaspur attack should remove any doubt that Pakistan's generals want peace with India, writes C Christine Fair in the Times of India.
3. India could actually make the claim of having been a world leader in science in the not-too distant past, writes Akshat Rathi in Mint On Sunday, if only the government would look beyond Vedic interplanetary planes.
4. Esha Roy in the Indian Express tells you what it's like to be in Imphal as the city simmers with protests calling for stricter curbs on migrants.
5. With both Facebook and Google watching on, mobile ad platform InMobi could be India's most innovative company, writes Malini Goyal in the ET Magazine.
6. Ennui is the wrong word, writes Aditi Phadnis in the Business Standard. "Everyone in the BJP is walking on eggshells."
7. Dharminder Kumar in Blink points to a pre-Independence Hindi novel, now in translation, that breaks out of the literary conventions of its day, but can't quite be compared to Proust.
8. Do away with the death penalty, writes Varun Gandhi in Outlook, calling it "vengeance legalised".
9. Alia Allana in Fountain Ink gets the whole story from the one Indian man who got away from ISIS-Daesh in Mosul, Iraq.
10. Flavour bombs, dollops of taste that set alight the core dish, are one easy way to get people used to a vegetarian diet, writes Pamela Timms in Mint Lounge.
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1. The Supreme Court's deputy registrar resigned from his post following the hanging of Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon, calling it a "judicial abdication" and one of the court's "darkest hours."
2. Landslides caused by heavy rains have killed 20 in Manipur, with many rivers still in spate.
3. A three-judge committee probing allegations of sexual harassment by a former sessions judge against Justice SK Gangele of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has said there was insufficient material to establish the charge.
The Big Story: Whose terror?
There hasn't exactly been any resolution to the matter of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj or Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje in the Lalit Modi controversy. Or the allegations against Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan. And then there was the attack in Gurdaspur. Amidst all of this, Home Minister Rajnath Singh decided to open another front by criticising the Congress for coining the phrase "Hindu terror" years ago, prompting angry retorts from Congress members. With yet another issue to agitate about, don't expect much work in Parliament any time soon.
Weekend Reads
1. Tunku Varadarajan in the Indian Express calls for another apolitical President to succeed Pranab Mukherjee, and puts forward cricketer Rahul Dravid's name.
2. The Gurdaspur attack should remove any doubt that Pakistan's generals want peace with India, writes C Christine Fair in the Times of India.
3. India could actually make the claim of having been a world leader in science in the not-too distant past, writes Akshat Rathi in Mint On Sunday, if only the government would look beyond Vedic interplanetary planes.
4. Esha Roy in the Indian Express tells you what it's like to be in Imphal as the city simmers with protests calling for stricter curbs on migrants.
5. With both Facebook and Google watching on, mobile ad platform InMobi could be India's most innovative company, writes Malini Goyal in the ET Magazine.
6. Ennui is the wrong word, writes Aditi Phadnis in the Business Standard. "Everyone in the BJP is walking on eggshells."
7. Dharminder Kumar in Blink points to a pre-Independence Hindi novel, now in translation, that breaks out of the literary conventions of its day, but can't quite be compared to Proust.
8. Do away with the death penalty, writes Varun Gandhi in Outlook, calling it "vengeance legalised".
9. Alia Allana in Fountain Ink gets the whole story from the one Indian man who got away from ISIS-Daesh in Mosul, Iraq.
10. Flavour bombs, dollops of taste that set alight the core dish, are one easy way to get people used to a vegetarian diet, writes Pamela Timms in Mint Lounge.