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The 48-hour fierce gun battle on the outskirts of Srinagar ended with the killing of three heavily-armed terrorists holed up in a government building situated along the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway. Army lost three elite commandos — two Captains and a Lance Naik — in the gunfight.
In a stinging editorial, The New York Times has blamed the Modi government for cracking down on JNU students and stifling freedom of expression in India. The “authoritarian drift” of the Modi government has come under sharp criticism by the newspaper which squarely blamed it for “the lynch mob mentality” witnessed in New Delhi in recent days.
Watch how a 106-year-old woman turned the White House visit into a dance party. And the Obamas could barely keep up with her.
A student of Banaras Hindu University was allegedly beaten up by BJP workers after he shouted out to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, pleading him to listen to the students' voice.
The Islamic State has claimed the gruesome killing of a Hindu head priest in Bangladesh using guns and cleavers at a temple in an area bordering India, the first attack by the dreaded group against a Hindu in a series of similar assaults on religious minorities.
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Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar was taken into “protective custody" after the assault on Pathankot airbase and one of the mobile phone numbers linked to the attackers was traced to the terror group’s headquarters, Pakistan’s foreign policy chief Sartaj Aziz has said.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi accused the BJP-led government of “unleashing its divisive agenda by generating a wholly unwarranted debate on patriotism and nationalism” to cover up its failures.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will serve as an inspiration to high school students in Andhra Pradesh from the coming academic year, beginning June 2016. Along with a few other names, he will figure in the lesson titled ‘Spoorthi Pradaathulu’ (Role Models) in the Telugu non-detailed book for eighth standard.
A cost-cutting exercise by the Finance Ministry has sparked off a major inter-ministerial battle with the Ministry of External Affairs, with sources warning it could affect India’s representations at major international summits.
The government is planning to set up a special media cell to track content online, and counter news and comments that it decides are negative or provocative. Every time a negative narrative surfaces, a possible counter would be initiated — through press releases, briefings or press conferences, depending on the intensity or standing of the post, said sources.
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Tamil Nadu is ensuring that its traffic cops stay cool this summer. Efforts are on to ensure they are given lemon juice and buttermilk to beat the heat. It is a state-wide initiative undertaken to help the traffic police personnel from getting dehydrated.
Newlywed couples in Madhya Pradesh’s Betul district, in addition to silver rings, saris, shirts and sweets, will be starting their journey together with a brand-new toilet, courtesy of the local administration.
In Madhurai, comic strips depicting stories of child sexual abuse were distributed among street children as part of an awareness rally. The idea was to teach the vulnerable kids the difference between good touch and bad touch.
Surgeons in Mumbai are experimenting with three-dimensional (3D) printed models of organs in complex surgeries. Doctors at Sir HN Hospital printed a 3D kidney, which helped the surgeons have a dry run before actually operating on the patient who had a cancerous tumour on the kidney.
After a gap of almost one year, a family in UP was reunited with their lost 13-year-old daughter because of the efforts of Childline. The girl had been begging at a Bareilly junction for a year and had also become addicted to inhalation of whitener.
Opinion
The Indian state has made it amply clear. It listens to the mob. Speak loudly AND carry a big stick and the home minister will meet you more than halfway. Merely chant slogans loudly and you can be charged with sedition, videos of your speeches doctored and played on prime time television, and you can be beaten up by lawyers in a courthouse, writes Sandip Roy in HuffPost India.
Umar is the son every parent should desire and be proud of, writes Apoorvanand in The Indian Express. “For if not Umar, what should youth be? How unfortunate would be a nation which has only obedient, conformist minds as its youth — youth who fight only for placements with fat pay packets; who are ready to turn into cogs and wheels of the machinery, which turns profit for a few and crushes the rest of humanity.”
The Modi government came to power on a promise of delivering faster growth and more jobs. We have seen two years of growth below 8 per cent. It’s hard to see the political authority reconciling itself to another year or two of the same growth rate — that would wash out most of the tenure of the present government. A departure from the fiscal consolidation path is the best answer to flagging growth. The risk to macro-economic stability can be managed, writes TT Ram Mohan in The Hindu.
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