Daily Newsletter | Sunday, March 05, 2017
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| India may not engage with Pakistan in near future |
| With the snow set to melt in the upper reaches, India will look for infiltration attempts by Pak-based terrorists and its actions to foment unrest in the Kashmir Valley. However, India doesn’t want to keep the silence at the hostility level. Therefore meetings and prisoner exchanges will go on as usual. |
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| Injury marks on sahayak’s body, alleges family |
| Lance Naik Roy Mathew was laid to rest on Saturday after a fresh postmortem was conducted at Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram, following his family’s allegations that there were injury marks on his body. |
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| Laggard states see big progress in health |
| Several of India’s socio-economically backward, or Empowered Action Group (EAG), states, namely Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Odisha and Chhattisgarh, have made great strides over the last decade with regard to some of the key health indicators. |
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| H-1B visas: Here’s finally some ‘good news’ |
| The US has assured India that the H-1B visas issue was not a priority for it and would be part of the larger immigration reforms package that the new Trump administration is working on. |
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| Apologetic Uber says drivers still earning well |
| Uber India president Amit Jain on Friday apologized for the disruption that its riders and drivers had experienced over the past few weeks. He admitted that driver incentives had been reduced to build a more sustainable business, but said that 80% of… |
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| 2nd Test: Lyon career-best dismantles India on Day 1 |
| On a pitch that would normally be ideal to bat in the first two days, India, opting to bat first, were bundled out for 189. Lyon claimed a career-best 8 for 50, rivalling his fellow spinner Steve O’Keefe’s first Test heroics. |
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| Centre, states broadly agree on CGST, IGST provisions |
| The GST Council at a meeting on Saturday broadly agreed on the contours of two key legislations – CGST and IGST – but a final approval is likely only by mid-March. Union finance minister Arun Jaitley met with his state counterparts and discussed the GST legislation. |
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| Coal India arm CCL approves Rs 1002-crore buyback plan |
| World’s largest coal producer Coal India on Saturday said its arm, Central Coalfields has approved a share buyback plan worth Rs 1,001.88 crore. Coal India accounts for over 80 per cent of the country’s domestic production. |
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