The Pakistani Special Investigation Team that is looking into the terrorist attack on the Pathankot air base on 2 January, may need to question Gurdaspur superintendent of police Salvinder Singh. Singh had claimed to have been kidnapped by the attackers, together with his cook and a friend, on the night of the attack, but then set free.

The National Investigation Agency had interrogated Salvinder Singh several times, even putting him through a lie detector test, after finding discrepancies in his narration of events, says the Hindustan Times.

The Patidar quota stir in Gujarat claimed another suicide on Thursday, committed allegedly in support of the agitation.

After Prakash Shaani, a 36-year-old Patidar, consumed pesticide and died, markets remained partially shut in Rajkot's Upleta and Dhoraji towns in mourning.

"We recovered a four-page suicide note from his room. His brother has confirmed that the handwriting in the note is that of Shaani's," said JK Zala, police inspector at Dhoraji.

The suicide note, according to The Indian Express, was addressed to Saurashtra PAAS convenor Lalit Vasoya. Shaani wrote: "With salutation to India, I hereby sacrifice one more life to the government."

The Supreme Court on Friday declined to stay TRAI's mandate that telecom operators must compensate customers for call drops. The SC had been hearing a petition filed by the Cellular Operators' Association of India, which challenged the recent decision of the Delhi High Court in favour of TRAI.

"We shall decide the matter instead of keeping it pending," said a bench of justices Kurien Joseph and Rohinton Nariman.

TRAI (the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) had made it mandatory for operators to pay consumers Re 1 for every call dropped due to network failure, up to three dropped calls a day, according to the Hindustan Times.

Four government schemes named after former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi have been quietly renamed in the 2016 Union budget. The renaming has been simple: Gandhi's name has simply been dropped from the schemes, leaving them politically neutral.

The schemes include the Rajiv Gandhi Panchayat Sashaktikaran Abhiyan, the Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship for Students with Disabilities, Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship for Scheduled Castes, and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Abhiyan. While the first three have dropped only the words 'Rajiv Gandhi' from their names, the last will be subsumed under an umbrella sports scheme, Khelo India, according to The Economic Times.

An Indian nun was killed along with 15 others on Friday in an old age home run by Kolkata's Missionaries of Charity in Aden, Yemen, by a group of armed men.

Though earlier reports had said four Indian nuns had been killed, after investigation it was learned that only one of the four murdered nuns was Indian.

On hearing of the incident, Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj tweeted: "All Indians in such danger zones please come back to India", according to The Indian Express.

Kanhaiya Kumar, the JNU students' union president who was arrested on charges of sedition and released on interim bail, will campaign for the Left, said CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury. "He is a Left activist. As a Left activist, he will naturally campaign," said Yechury. "It is often said that youth is not attracted to the left. What do they have to say about yesterday's meeting in JNU?"

Kanhaiya belongs to the All India Students Federation, the student wing of the CPI, says The Indian Express. D Raja, national secretary of the CPI, said: "There are demands for Kanhaiya to campaign in different parts of the country. "