Daily Newsletter | Wednesday, May 17, 2017
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| Women can say triple talaq, Muslim law board tells Supreme Court |
| Arguing through Ejaz Maqbool, the board submitted before a five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India J S Khehar that a woman had four options before entering into a marital relationship, including insisting on registering the marriage under the Special Marriage Act, 1954. |
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| Govt makes Russia sweat before PM-Putin meet |
| Russia is worried that India might be delaying the MoU for developing Kudankulam reactor units to get Moscow to work proactively for its NSG membership. India’s message said, without NSG membership in next 1-2 years, India would have no option but to go for an indigenous nuclear energy programme. |
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| Pakistan’s arguments in ICJ inconsistent: India |
| “Salve showed that Pakistan had granted conditional access to Jadhav by linking this case to an unrelated issue. But during the argument, Pakistan said the convention did not apply to spies of one country arrested by the other and this had been agreed to in a bilateral agreement. Only one fact could be correct, either access to Jadhav could be granted, conditional or otherwise, or it was barred. Both cannot be true,” a source said. |
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| IBM to cut 5,000 jobs in India: Sources |
| IBM did not confirm the number of employees who will be affected but said that “re-skilling and rebalancing is an ongoing process as we accelerate the benefits of cloud technologies for clients.” |
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| Maria Sharapova denied French Open wild card |
| Twice former champion Maria Sharapova was surprisingly denied a wildcard into the French Open on Tuesday — ending intense speculation about her place in the claycourt slam since she returned from a 15-month doping ban. |
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| Tendulkar rates 1999 Oz series as toughest of his career |
| Legendary batsman Sachin Tendulkar on Tuesday rated the Australian series of 1999 as the toughest in his 24-year long glorious international cricket career. The Steve Waugh-led side dominated the three-match series, handing India a 3-0 whitewash. |
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| UN revises downward India’s GDP growth for 2017 |
| The United Nations has revised downward India’s economic growth forecast for 2017 but predicted an increased 7.9 per cent GDP growth next year as it cautioned that stressed balance sheets in the banking sectors will prevent strong investment rebound in the near term. |
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