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The Morning Wrap: Some Of Those Pics You Saw Of the Army's Myanmar Operations Were From 2009

The Morning Wrap: Some Of Those Pics You Saw Of the Army's Myanmar Operations Were From 2009
Indian army soldiers pay tribute to their colleague Randeep Singh, who was killed in Thursdayâs rebel attack in northeastern Manipur state after his body was brought to Akhnoor, Jammu and Kashmir state, India, Sunday, June 7, 2015. A group of rebels using rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons ambushed a military convoy in India's insurgency-wracked northeast on Thursday, killing more than a dozen soldiers in the latest major attack in the region in recent months. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
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Indian army soldiers pay tribute to their colleague Randeep Singh, who was killed in Thursdayâs rebel attack in northeastern Manipur state after his body was brought to Akhnoor, Jammu and Kashmir state, India, Sunday, June 7, 2015. A group of rebels using rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons ambushed a military convoy in India's insurgency-wracked northeast on Thursday, killing more than a dozen soldiers in the latest major attack in the region in recent months. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

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Nestle India Ltd. moved the Bombay High Court today for a judicial review of orders passed by food safety regulator Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, that banned the sale, distribution and production of Maggi noodles.

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Indian Railways is on the threshold of dramatic changes. A government panel, mandated to suggest ways to overhaul the railways, has recommended the entry of private players to run passenger trains.

The Indian Expressfinds that the June 9 cross-border strikes by the Army on insurgents inside Myanmar may have had less impact on their military capacity than early assessments had indicated. Moreover, none of the group that first attacked the Indian soldiers were among those killed.

Former Bihar CM and Hindustani Awam Morcha party chief Jitan Ram Manjhi on Thursday announced that he is joining the National Democratic Alliance to destroy the coalition of Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad.

The food safety lab in Delhi that was key to exposing contaminants in Maggi, is understaffed, low on technology and needed a private lab for the Maggi tests.

An opinion piece, 'From welfare state to paternalism' by former Law Minister Veerappa Moily published in Thursday's edition of national daily The Hindu, has been withdrawn amidst charges of plagiarism according to a prominent notice on the newspaper's website.

Foxconn Technology is in talks to manufacture Apple's iPhone in India, government officials said, in a move that could lower prices in the world's No. 3 smartphone market where the US firm trails Samsung Electronics and local players.

Off The Front Page

A morbid account of a family in Kolkata where a man lived with the corpses of his father, sister and dogs for several months.

The BJP is so worried about any publicity for Narendra Modi's wife Jashodaben that the party shut down a social awareness programme that she was to attend. The move has evidently backfired.

Through a selfie contest, a village in Haryana is doing its bit to photoshop the stigma of the state's abysmal sex ratio.

The Army, which has been commended by all for its surgical strikes against insurgents on the Myanmar border, was left red-faced when it emerged that two photographs, released by the Army, and doing the rounds on the media and social media platforms were actually from operations in 2009 and not of the current one.

Opinion

Pratap Bhanu Mehta says India's security challenge is complex but its strategic communication, official and unofficial, needs a lot more maturity.

Navroz Dubash and colleagues say that at forthcoming climate change conferences, India must present a convincing story along with numbers to justify its actions on climate change.

Markandey Katju says that the arrest of Delhi Law Minister Jitender Tomar suggests that India has veered dangerously close to being a 'police state'.

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