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The Morning Wrap: US Miffed With 'Make in India', DeVilliers Pummels Fastest Century

The Morning Wrap: US Miffed With 'Make in India', DeVilliers Pummels Fastest Century
NEW DELHI, INDIA - DECEMBER 28: Supporters of the Aam Aadmi (Common Man) Party watch their unseen leader Arvind Kejriwal taking his oath of office as Chief Minister of Delhi from Delhi's Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung during swearing-in ceremony at Ramlila Ground on December 28, 2013 in New Delhi, India. Kejriwal's upstart Aam Aadmi Party made a stunning electoral debut, winning 28 assembly seats in recent state polls and delivering a stinging defeat to the Congress party which rules at the national level. (Photo by Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
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NEW DELHI, INDIA - DECEMBER 28: Supporters of the Aam Aadmi (Common Man) Party watch their unseen leader Arvind Kejriwal taking his oath of office as Chief Minister of Delhi from Delhi's Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung during swearing-in ceremony at Ramlila Ground on December 28, 2013 in New Delhi, India. Kejriwal's upstart Aam Aadmi Party made a stunning electoral debut, winning 28 assembly seats in recent state polls and delivering a stinging defeat to the Congress party which rules at the national level. (Photo by Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

The Morning Wrap is Huffpost India's selection of interesting news and opinion from the day's newspapers.

Main News

While there is much excitement over Obama's visit and its impact on nuclear and clean energy cooperation, the US

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat appealed to a congregation to turn India into a "Hindu nation", and in tune with Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore's vision of "unity in diversity."

Union Information and Broadcast Minister Arun Jaitley said the country's security- and defence-establishments were of the view that media coverage of terror attacks ought to be restricted and coverage of the like witnessed during the Mumbai terror attacks "cannot be allowed." He added that the matter was under "serious and very advanced consideration" of the government.

Two rival teams, part of the T20 cricket franchise, Celebrity Cricket League, clashed in a Jharkhand stadium after one of the teams boasted that they were going to get film stars Selman Khan and Katrina Kais, for a performance.

A Rs 1.40-crore donation to the Trinamul Congress threatens to be the party's undoing in the ongoing investigation into the Saradha chit fund scam.

President Barack Obama is contemplating new taxes on the wealthiest Americans that would limit their profits from investments and make it harder for them to pass assets to heirs. This is to address concerns over inequality in the United States.

Opinion

Manu Joseph, in the Hindustan Times, on the Charlie Hebdo attacks says that satire is a form of delinquency with an inescapable, and sometimes, fatal pull.

Irena Akbar says that the "moderate" Muslims are now sick of condemning. "Their condemnation has plateaued and they are now laughing at demands for denunciation of all acts of terror," she writes in the Indian Express.

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