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| Sunday morning brief |
Apr 2 2017 |
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| Good morning! |
| Here’s everything you need to know to start your day… |
| Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today inaugurate India’s longest road tunnel on the Jammu-Srinagar Highway. This 10.8 kilometre-long tunnel will also be the longest highway tunnel in Asia. It will reduce the travel time between the two state capitals of Jammu and Srinagar by two hours. The distance from Chenani and Nashri will now be 10.9 kms (between two ends of the tunnel), instead of the existing 41 kms. |
| Love killed six times more Indians than terror attacks, government records revealed. Between 2001 and 2015, love was the officially recorded reason for as many as 38,585 murders and culpable homicide cases. Terror, on the other hand, killed 20,000 people, including civilians and security forces, in the same period. Andhra Pradesh witnessed the highest number of love-related murder cases. |
| Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav said nobody has ever insulted him like his son Akhilesh has. “While people voted for me as the chief minister in 2012, I chose to make Akhilesh the CM, but he humiliated me thereafter,” Mulayam said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was right when he had said that a son who was not loyal to his father couldn’t be loyal to anyone else, the former UP CM added. |
| The Dalai Lama said China’s reaction to his Arunachal visit was normal. “No problem. It’s normal,” the Tibetan spiritual leader said when asked about China’s objection to his visit to the northeast state. The spiritual leader will leave for Tawang on April 4. A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman on Friday warned that the spiritual leader’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh will cause ” serious damage on bilateral relations”. |
| An Indian-origin woman was last week asked to strip for a security check at Germany’s Frankfurt airport. “We were travelling to Iceland from India, via Frankfurt with our four-year-old daughter when I was asked to move aside for this ‘random check’, no explanations offered. I was taken into a room, and was asked to lift my dress/ take it off,” Shruthi Basappa wrote in a Facebook post, which she later deleted. |
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