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The Morning Wrap: Rahul Gandhi's UK Records Show Multiple Nationality Disorder; Chefs Next Up For Padma Awards

The Morning Wrap: Rahul Gandhi's UK Records Show Multiple Nationality Disorder; Chefs Next Up For Padma Awards
Congress party Vice President Rahul Gandhi arrives to address the media outside the party headquarters in New Delhi, India, Friday, May 16, 2014. In a campaign led by Gandhi, the son, grandson, and great-grandson of Indian prime ministers, the Indian National Congress party suffered the most crushing defeat in its 128-year history Friday as the results of India's general election were released. The next prime minister will be Narendra Modi, who led the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party to a solid victory, in part by seizing on the perception that Rahul Gandhi was little more than a crown prince awaiting his prize. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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Congress party Vice President Rahul Gandhi arrives to address the media outside the party headquarters in New Delhi, India, Friday, May 16, 2014. In a campaign led by Gandhi, the son, grandson, and great-grandson of Indian prime ministers, the Indian National Congress party suffered the most crushing defeat in its 128-year history Friday as the results of India's general election were released. The next prime minister will be Narendra Modi, who led the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party to a solid victory, in part by seizing on the perception that Rahul Gandhi was little more than a crown prince awaiting his prize. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

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This viral footage of a flowing "river of sand" in Iraq is breathtaking, but it's not really sand.

The Censor Board has reduced the length of kissing scenes in the upcoming James Bond movie, Spectre. Naturally, Twitter trolled the hell out of Nihalani and his men.

Prashant Kishor, acknowledged by both Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar, as the architect of the Mahagathbandhan's win in Bihar, is not one for ideology but has firmly decided that he wants to back the winning folks in 2019.

Sandip Roy says that Rahul Gandhi being declared a British citizen might actually bode well for the Congress.

Main News

The Delhi Cabinet, headed by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, on Wednesday approved the Delhi Jan Lokpal Bill, 2015, and is expected to present it before the 70-member Delhi assembly soon, where it enjoys an overwhelming majority.

Senior-most judge of the Supreme Court, Justice T S Thakur, was appointed the next Chief Justice of India on Wednesday. He will take over from Justice H L Dattu on December 3.

Nearly 150 Indians are on the radar of intelligence agencies for actively following Islamic State propaganda and engaging on social media with pro-IS elements.

There are multiple versions of Rahul Gandhi's nationality as per British Companies House records.

If you are a vegetarian in India, the chances of your suffering pesticide exposure may be higher than for those predominantly consuming non-vegetarian foods.

Off The Front Page

Manjula, once a rag-picker, heads a cleaners' cooperative with 400 members that provides cleaning and housekeeping services to 45 institutions and societies in Ahmedabad raking in a turnover of Rs 1 crore per annum.

Cooks and chefs could soon receive Padma awards, with the Ministry of Culture sending a recommendation to the Home Ministry in this regard.

Security agencies in Delhi were thrown into a tizzy on Wednesday, when a constable posted outside Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence “accidentally” fired three shots from his AK-47 assault rifle.

In an anti-climax for the ‘kiss of love’ movement in Kerala, which had fought a noisy campaign against moral policing, the police on Wednesday arrested its leader Rahul Pasupalan, and his wife Rashmi Nair, in connection with an alleged online sex racket in Kochi.

Opinion

Girish Patel says that governments must be careful about drawing the line regarding free speech. " The political movements generally involve inflammatory speeches. Unless these speeches, directly and immediately, are likely to lead to violence, they should not be branded seditious. It is true that it is difficult to decide where to draw the line. But is also true that the line has to be drawn, as far as possible, in favour of free speech."

Shailaja Bajpai speculates on how the Indian media would have covered the Paris terror attacks. "Hindi news channels will provide graphic reconstructions, everyone will visit the victims, weeping relatives of the victims, the injured, the hospitals and post huge photos of the terrorists, a replay of the attacks. Anyone remotely unconnected with the events will be interviewed; the nightly debates will thunder: “Who is to blame for this monster called terrorism? ”

G Sampath discusses the notion of 'intolerance' and asks whether the real problem is that the government has been too tolerant. "All these taken together reveal a pattern not of intolerance but of too much tolerance — of hate speech, of sectarian violence, of violation of freedoms guaranteed in the Constitution. It was this toleration of the intolerant that prompted writers, academics, students, and scientists to protest in whichever ways they could: by returning state awards, writing open letters, and so on."

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