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| Tuesday morning brief |
Apr 25 2017 |
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| Terrorists in J&K shot dead PDP’s Pulwama district chief Abdul Ghani Dar. The incident occured within hours of J&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss the unrest in the Valley. The terrorists, armed with assault rifles, shot Ghani while he was on a tour of the violence-torn area. Dar’s was the second targeted political killing in south Kashmir in a week. On April 17, militants had killed a former public prosecutor affiliated with the National Conference, Imtiyaz Ahmad Khan, in Shopian district. |
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| The US said it greatly values Indian companies and wants stronger economic ties. This comes just a few days after finance minister Arun Jaitley raised the issue of restrictions on H-1B visa with his American counterpart Steven Mnuchin. During his US visit, Jaitley had raised the H-1B issue with Mnuchin as India fears the curb would impact the movement of Indian IT professionals to America and highlighted the contribution Indian companies and professionals are making to the US economy. |
| 32 education boards, including CBSE, agreed to do away with spiking of marks through ‘moderation’. Under the moderation policy, examinees are awarded up to 15 per cent extra marks in certain papers if the questions are deemed to have been difficult. This is likely to bring down the marks in Class XII Board exams, and consequently cutoffs during undergraduate admissions. However, grace marks will continue to be given to low scorers on the pass-fail borderline, a senior CBSE official said. |
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| Politicians can’t remove top police officers based on their whims, Supreme Court said. Holding that political interference in police administration could shake people’s confidence in the system, the bench said the government could take action against senior police officials only if there was credible evidence. “A certain degree of freedom is required to be given to police by insulating it from possible attempts to control its independent functioning,” the bench said. |
| Soon, all cattle in country will be tagged with Aadhaar-like ID to stop their smuggling. "Each animal will be tagged with a <a href=”http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/soon-aadhaar-like-id-for-cattle/articleshow/58352347.cms”>Unique Identification Number</a> (UIN) with proper records of identification details — age, breed, sex, lactation, height, body colour, horn type, tail switch and special marks," Centre told the Supreme Court yesterday. It may be made mandatory for cows and their progeny throughout India. |
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