A leopard crept into Bengaluru's Vibgyor school on Sunday, mauling six people before it was finally tranquillised, reports the Hindustan Times. According to CCTV footage, it had entered the campus undetected at 4 am, and attacked an employee in the late afternoon. It had left the campus some time during the day, but re-entered it during operations to capture it, by climbing the compound wall. The leopard injured a media cameraperson and an environmentalist during the capture. It has been taken to Bannerghatta National Park.

The Indian nationals held captive by Islamic State after being taken from Mosul in Iraq more than a year-and-a-half ago are all alive, according to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, reports the Hindustan Times. Swaraj said this information was based on her meetings with Arab and Palestinian leaders when she travelled to Palestine and Israel on 17 and 18 January. She said that during a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, she was told that the "Indians are alive and made to work" in war-torn Iraq according to his government's intelligence.

Pankaj Bhujbal, son of NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal, has been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for questioning in money laundering case, reports the Hindustan Times. The ED has also seized his passport. Pankaj has been named in an FIR filed by the ED that includes the names of his father Chhagan, a former PWD minister, as well as his cousin Samir. The ED is investigating the scam alleged to have taken place during the construction of the Maharashtra Sadan in Delhi and another case involving land-grabbing in Kalina, Mumbai.

Rs 1.14 lakh crore in bad debts was written off by 29 PSU banks in the financial years 2013-2015, The Indian Express discovered after filing an RTI. The Reserve Bank of India said that while the figure for bad debts was Rs 15,551 crore for 2012 financial year, it had gone up to Rs 52,542 crore by the end of March 2015. While PSU banks' bad debts grew at 4 per cent between the years 2004 and 2012, they grew to nearly 60 per cent between 2013 and 2015. Some 85 per cent of the loans from 2013 on have been written off.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has ruled in favour of net neutrality. This means that no service provider can offer or charge differential prices for data services on the basis of content being offered. TRAI has ruled that a service provider may reduce tariff rates for accessing and providing emergency services.In the ruling, TRAI said that it will levy a penalty of Rs 50,000 per day if service providers are found to be charging differentiating prices.

Investigators into the Pathankot attack are not certain about the actual number of terrorists they dealt with, reports The Hindustan Times. Though the National Security Guard (NSG) says it killed six terrorists, four in the first counterterror encounter, and two in a second, forensic analysis is awaited to see if there were any terrorists at all in the second encounter. Doubts arose after it was seen that the debris in the building contained pieces of bedclothes, but no shreds of garments. Also, only four assault weapons had been recovered from the bodies of the terrorists.

January 2016 saw 89 farmer suicides in Marathwada despite the Maharashtra government's "all-out" efforts, reports The Indian Express. A task force looking into the suicides describes the situation as a collective failure by officials of the state government. More than 1,100 farmers had committed suicide in Marathwada in 2015. Kishore Tiwari, head of the state government-appointed Farmers Distress Management Task Force, said: "It is clear that the government officials, especially at the local levels, have failed to create confidence among the farmers regarding several government schemes intended to benefit them."

India continued to dominate the medals tally at the ongoing South Asian Games, with a total of 42 golds and a medal count of 60. Sri Lanka, with 8 golds and a total of 49 medals, remain at second. Among the most prominent medal winners on Monday was Joshna Chinappa, who clinched the gold medal in squash after a hard-fought 10-12, 11-7, 11-9, 11-7 win over Pakistan's Maria Toorpakai Wazir. In weightlifting, Kavita Devi won the gold in the women's 75 kg category, while shooter Rajat Chauhan bagged the top prize in the men's singles compound archery event.

In a four-hour deposition before a Mumbai Sessions Court, 26/11 conspirator David Coleman Headley made several revelations about the Pakistan ISI's role in training terrorists. He also spoke about how he joined the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the role Hafiz Saeed played in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.

Headley disclosed that he joined the LeT in 2002. He also revealed that he met an ISI officer, Major Ali, and was later introduced to Major Iqbal, another ISI officer. He will also depose in court tomorrow. Click here to read the full story.