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The Morning Wrap: BJP's Adityanath Wants Non-Hindu Ban On Pilgrimage Spot; Modi's Air India One Hits Snag

The Morning Wrap: BJP's Adityanath Wants Non-Hindu Ban On Pilgrimage Spot; Modi's Air India One Hits Snag
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures during a press conference after talks with the German Chancellor in Berlin on April 14, 2015. AFP PHOTO / TOBIAS SCHWARZ (Photo credit should read TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP/Getty Images)
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures during a press conference after talks with the German Chancellor in Berlin on April 14, 2015. AFP PHOTO / TOBIAS SCHWARZ (Photo credit should read TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP/Getty Images)

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Striking a major blow for Net Neutrality, Flipkart has pulled out of Airtel Zero.

Alcohol saved a witness, who claimed to be travelling with the men, allegedly killed by the Andhra Pradesh police in the Seshachalam forest near Tirupati last week.

News agency Asian News International (ANI) filed a police complaint on Tuesday against a photo-shopped tweet about Prime Minister Narendra Modi that was wrongly attributed to the agency’s Twitter handle.

Main News

India plans to deliver wheat and possibly other grains to North Korea following a rare meeting yesterday between foreign minister Sushma Swaraj and her Pyongyang counterpart Ri Su Yong.

Ruling out an immediate end to the battle within the Aam Aadmi Party, rebel leaders Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan on Tuesday said they would not quit the party but launch a non-political outfit called, “Swaraj Abhiyaan,” to work for alternative politics.

On the back of unseasonal rains, there will be five million tonnes less wheat available to buy than what the Food Corporation of India and its agencies procured last year.

The Supreme Court has ruled that an MLA or MP who enters into a business contract with the government stands disqualified, upholding the disqualification of BJP legislator Bajrang Bahadur Singh who won the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections from Pharenda constituency.

On the eve of a judicial review of a government Bill to modify the way judges are hired, the NDA government has stalled the appointments of 125 judges to various highcourts.

In the all-party clamour to don the legacy of B R Ambedkar’s legacy, the RSS said it was “worrisome” that Ambedkar got the Bharat Ratna ten years after Mother Teresa.

After targeting social activist Teesta Setalvad, who has been a vocal critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi since the 2002 Gujarat riots, the Gujarat government has trained its guns on her main funding source, the US-based Ford Foundation.

Off The Front Page

Air India One, a Boeing 747-400 aircraft, that carried Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Delhi to Berlin after halts in Paris, Toulouse and Hannover, developed engine problems and had to be replaced by another plane.

A 10-year-old Indian girl in the United Kingdom lobbed an election question at British Prime Minister David Cameron that he failed to answer.

BJP MP Yogi Adityanath has called for barring non-Hindus to Har Ki Pauri, an important pilgrimage- and tourist spot-along the banks of the Ganga in Haridwar.

The Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) wants a chapter in school textbooks extolling the role of party chief Sonia Gandhi’s role in carving out the state of Telangana.

Controversial singer Mika, who slapped a doctor on stage during a recent concert, said he did it to “protect women” and was his way of “stand(ing) up for the vulnerable.”

Opinion

D Raghunandan, in The Hindu, says that India must produce defence equipment on its own by “dogged pursuit and by creating institutions of excellence with political support” than merely rely on offsets and technology imports.

Pratap Bhanu Mehta, in The Indian Express, rues that the haste with which several political parties seem to want to appropriate Ambedkar’s legacy “invites suspicion (as) it does not seem to be accompanied by a sense of historical complicity or even guilt in the production of oppression.”

Sanjay Gubbi, in The Indian Express, says that though there are innovative ideas being mooted to set up privately-funded wildlife conservation projects, they can at best be “a supporting mechanism”.

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