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Sunday morning news brief, May 14 2017

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Sunday morning brief May 14 2017
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Here’s everything you need to know to start your day…
70% ATMs in India can be easy prey to cyberattacks. These machines use the outdated Windows XP operating system, for which developer Microsoft stopped providing security patches and other support tools in 2014. Data shows, in the last 2 years nearly 11,000 networks in India have been victims of probing/scanning by cyber criminals. Read
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Participating in China’s OBOR project will weaken its stance on Pakistan occupied Kashmir, India feels. It would be tantamount to accepting the Chinese and Pakistani position on the region being “northern Pakistan,” a stand India has been protesting since 1963. India also protested when the “chief minister” of Gilgit-Baltistan visited Xinjiang and when Chinese media reported joint patrols in PoK.
The government is keen on a July 1 rollout of GST to avoid businesses getting hit during the peak festival season. It is opposed to a September rollout suggested by some experts and business bodies, as that would be too close to Diwali-Navratri, the peak business season. Politically too, a July rollout would ensure that businesses have settled down by the assembly elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh in November.
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Over 67,000 candidates have applied for 698 posts of sub-inspector with the J&K police. The number of candidates from Kashmir outnumbered those from the Jammu region, ignoring threats by various terrorist groups against joining the security forces. Over 6,000 Kashmiri girls also turned up for physical tests for recruitment as police sub-inspectors.
India is confident it has a strong case to put before ICJ in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case. India believes that its case is built around the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (VCCR) optional protocol which both India and Pakistan are signatory to, and which accords primacy to ICJ in disputes arising out of interpretation and application of VCCR.
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