A look at the top headlines of the day:
1. >"Malicious allegations", says Tata group of Mistry’s remarks in email
2. >Soldier killed, another injured in north Kashmir
3. >Chinese Communist Party declares Xi ‘core’ leader: Xinhua
4. >Supreme Court refuses to go into permissibility of religion in political speeches
5. >Two nabbed for selling classified information to Pakistan
6. >Central staff to get 2% DA
7. >India to have 1 bn mobile subscribers by 2020: Study
8. >Two Yazidi women who gave the slip to IS win Sakharov prize: sources
9. >Wildlife populations plunge almost 60 per cent since 1970
10. >Tesla up on surprise profit, reassurance on capital plans
