Top Ten News of the Day:
1. RBI keeps repo rate unchanged; Cuts SLR by half a per cent; Keeps Repo rate steady at 7.75 percent; Reliance and Aditya Birla group among applicants for setting up small savings bank and payment bank.
2. Petrol prices slashed by 2 rupees, 42 paise and diesel by 2 rupees, 25 paise per litre.
3. BJP leader and Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleges Congress and Aam Aadmi Party have together wasted 16 precious years of Delhiites; AAP appeals to Supreme Court for a SIT probe into accounts of all major political parties; Finance minister Arun Jaitleys says courts should be kept away from politics; Congress accuses BJP and AAP using black money for elections to induce voters.
4. National Human Rights Commission asks report from Union Home Ministry and Delhi government on yesterday's alleged vandalisation of a Church in Vasantkunj, Delhi.
5. Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's brother Iqbal Kaskar and his associate were today arrested in Mumbai on charges of extortion and assault.
6. Srinagar-Jammu national highway remains closed due to heavy snowfall.
7. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague has ruled that Serbia did not commit genocide in Croatia during the Balkan Wars.
8. UN Security Council asks Islamic state militants to immediately release all hostages.
9. A Pakistani High Commission staffer in Bangladesh asked to leave the country after being found indulging in terror financing including circulating Fake Indian Currency Notes
10. In the 35th National Games, Olympian Vijayakumar strikes gold in the 25 metre pistol event; In Weightlifting, Jasvir Kaur breaks National record in 63 kg women category.
