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The Morning Wrap: Centre Says Geeta's DNA Doesn't Match Family's; Modi's Wise Words Available As CDs For Babus

The Morning Wrap: Centre Says Geeta's DNA Doesn't Match Family's; Modi's Wise Words Available As CDs For Babus
INDORE, INDIA - NOVEMBER 6: Geeta, the deaf and mute girl, who returned to India from Pakistan recently expressing her happiness while interacting with media persons at Indore Deaf and Bilingual Academy on November 6, 2015 in Indore, India. Geeta, who lived in Pakistan for about 15 years after accidentally landing in the country as a child, is currently lodged at an institution for the hearing- and speech-impaired here. (Photo by Shankar Mourya/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
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INDORE, INDIA - NOVEMBER 6: Geeta, the deaf and mute girl, who returned to India from Pakistan recently expressing her happiness while interacting with media persons at Indore Deaf and Bilingual Academy on November 6, 2015 in Indore, India. Geeta, who lived in Pakistan for about 15 years after accidentally landing in the country as a child, is currently lodged at an institution for the hearing- and speech-impaired here. (Photo by Shankar Mourya/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

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Media tycoon Peter Mukerjea, husband of Indrani Mukerjea, was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday night in connection with the Sheena Bora murder case.

Mark Zuckerburg's Facebook post announcing a safety check in Nigeria, in the aftermath of bombings there, makes Facebook look more biased than ever.

Who thought judges are boring? Well, if you did, you surely haven't met US District Court Judge Amit Mehta. In a judgement in September, on a case related to copyright infringement, the 44-year-old Indian-origin judge stumped all with his epic note in which he says that when it comes to hip-hop music and lyrics, he is no ordinary "lay person."

Shrisha Rao says that there is nothing 'intolerant' about wanting to discourage the killing of cows and beef eating.

Main News

On the eve of Nitish Kumar's swearing-in, speculation spiked about the appointment of Tejashwi Yadav, younger son of RJD boss Lalu Prasad, as Deputy Chief Minister.

A school in West Bengal disallowed an HIV-positive child from continuing studies and also forced his maternal grandmother, a teacher in the same school, to take a 'purity' test.

The government on Thursday said the DNA sample of speech and hearing-impaired Geeta — an Indian national who returned from Pakistan recently after inadvertently crossing the border more than a decade ago — did not match with the Mahato family from Bihar, even as many other families have come forward to claim her as their daughter.

A 31-year-old man with hearing and speech impairment, who had been conferred with the President’s Education Award, was shot dead in northeast Delhi.

In the wake of the violence over the desecration of the Guru Granth Sahib, the Punjab cabinet on Monday saidit would introduce a new amended section (295 AA) in the Indian Penal Code (IPC) to provide life imprisonment to those involved in sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib.

Off The Front Page

An online Railways test for recruitment of disabled candidates on Thursday was held on the second and third floor of a building with no lifts or ramps, making it an ironic, ordeal for applicants to reach the venue.

A Japanese team had arrived in Narendra Modi's constituency on Tuesday hoping to see some project reports on how to achieve the Prime Minister's plan of developing Varanasi on the lines of Kyoto, a key tourist hotspot. The only thing the experts apparently got to see was garbage on the streets before leaving empty-handed.

The Narendra Modi government is taking the Prime Minister's efforts to engage directly with the civil servants a step further. It has prepared a set of two compact discs containing extracts of one of Modi's much-discussed speeches to bureaucrats that it plans to gift to every civil servant including Indian Administrative Service officers in the country, as a ready reckoner of sorts on good governance.

Opinion

MJ Akbar takes Mani Shankar Aiyar to task for soliciting 'help from Pakistan.' "What right do Aiyar and Khurshid have to talk about talks when all their talking for 10 years did not take the two countries an inch forward? Or is simulation and pretence all that they and the Congress have as substitute for policy? "

Janaki Nair says that few have done as much to immortalize Tipu Sultan, as much as the British. "Srirangapatna was soon turned into what I have called a “topography of conquest”, a new place of pilgrimage for British soldiers and tourists. From the 1870s on, those quartered at Bangalore were enjoined to revisit the sites of his fall and death, and vicariously participate in that glorious moment when the tide turned in favour of the British."

Swapan Dasgupta opines that Modi's visit to the United Kingdom symbolizes the dawn of a new kind of relationship. "India is changing, Britain has changed and British Indians are on the cusp of an economic take off (which is not the case with the Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities). It will be a little while before new realities overwhelm set perceptions. Modi's visit is a step in making the adjustments happen."

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