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1. DMK Chief M Karunanidhi had ‘Transient Setback’, But Improving, Says Hospital
DMK president M Karunanidhi continued to remain under medical supervision following a “transient setback” on Sunday. As scores of party supporters gathered outside the hospital in Chennai, doctors treating him said his vital signs are “normalising”.
A medical bulletin at around 10 pm issued by the Kauvery Hospital where he is being treated stated: “There was a transient setback in the clinical condition of DMK president M Karunanidhi. With active medical support, his vital signs are normalising. He continues to be closely monitored and treated by the panel of expert doctors.”
Karunanidhi (94) was rushed to a private hospital in Chennai around on Saturday following a drop in his blood pressure.
(Source: The Indian Express)
2. Assam Citizen Draft Release Today, Govt Prepares for Unrest
There is anxiety and anticipation in Assam as the final draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), which establishes citizenship, is set to be released on 30 July, after a mammoth and controversial drive to weed out ‘illegal immigrants’.
The first part of the draft, released on 31 December 2017, had included names of 19 million of the state’s 33 million applicants. Amid fears that those not included in the list might be declared foreigners and sent to detention centres, senior ministers and officials have been assuring residents not to panic and fall prey to rumours.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
3. Not Scared of Meeting Industrialists in Public: PM
PM Narendra Modi on Sunday reached out to the business community, looking to reassure industrialists that they have a significant role to play in nation building even as he warned that the choice for dishonest businessmen was to either flee the country or spend their lives in jail.
Despite the tough message for wrongdoers, the PM’s fulsome acknowledgement of the role of business along with other contributors to national life like farmers, labourers, workmen, bankers, financiers and government employees seems to be a bid to calm the worried in the business class over being targeted by new and more stringent tax reforms, clean up of shell companies and legislation such as the one that provides for takeover of fugitive economic offenders.
(Source: The Times of India)
4. Kejriwal Tears up LG Panel Report on CCTVs, Says Will Give Nod Today
Stating that people had “unanimously decided” that no police licence was required to install CCTV cameras on private premises, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday publicly tore up a report — titled “Delhi Rules for Regulations of CCTV System 2018” — prepared by a panel formed by lieutenant governor Anil Baijal. The CM was addressing a gathering that comprised representatives of RWAs and market associations and women at IGI indoor stadium.
The LG panel had “suggested” that licence from police be made mandatory for installation of cameras by private or government bodies. “I will sign the file (of CCTV) tomorrow (Monday),” Kejriwal said at the event.
The CM claimed that the requirement of a police licence for installing CCTVs would “lead to an increase in bribery”.
(Source: The Times of India)
5. CBI Takes Over Probe Into Bihar Shelter Home Rapes
A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team arrived in Bihar on Sunday to take over the probe into alleged sexual abuse at a government-funded shelter home in Muzaffarpur district, from where 42 girls were rescued earlier this month.
Chief minister Nitish Kumar had recommended the probe after opposition parties accused the government of shielding the accused.
An official familiar with the initial police investigation said on Sunday that the girls were raped after sedatives were given to them under the garb of deworming medication almost every night.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
6. J&K: On Leave, CRPF Man Shot Dead in Pulwama
Militants entered a house in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district Sunday and fired at a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel who was at home on leave. The CRPF man, Naseer Ahmad Rather, succumbed at the district hospital, police said.
Rather was the first Kashmiri CRPF personnel to have been killed in the Valley while on leave. Militants had earlier killed an Army Lieutenant in South Kashmir and a Border Security Force (BSF) personnel at Hajin in North Kashmir while they were home on vacation.
(Source: The Indian Express)
7. No Funds or Manpower: First Cow Sanctuary Says Can’t Take in More
As the Rajasthan government announces its very own cow sanctuary, Madhya Pradesh’s own is gasping for funds. Around five months after it opened its gates to cows, the Kamdhenu Gau Abhayaranya in February this year stopped their entry after realising that it neither had the manpower nor the money to take care of the cattle.
Spread over 472 hectares in Salaria village in the state’s Agar district, the sanctuary, opened in September 2017, was touted as the first such for cows in the country. Besides sheltering stray and abandoned cows, it was meant to promote pesticides and medicines derived from cow dung and cow urine. While plans were to accommodate 6,000 cattle in its 24 sheds, the sanctuary currently has around 4,120 cows. But the money it currently gets from the Animal Husbandry Department is used up in providing just fodder for them.
(Source: The Indian Express)
8. 3,000 Evacuated as Yamuna Waters Rise to 5 Year High
About 3,000 people were evacuated from low-lying areas of Delhi to makeshift camps and traffic was suspended on the Old Yamuna Bridge as the water level in the river continued to rise on Sunday, reaching its highest level in the last five years a day after breaching the danger mark, government officials said.
The Delhi government has declared an emergency in the low-lying areas of the Yamuna floodplains.
“The water level touched 205.5 metres around 5pm on Sunday. The last time it breached the 205 metres was in 2013 when the water level touched 207.3 metres. In 2013, Haryana had released around 8 lakh cusecs of water on a single day. This time, the maximum water Haryana has released so far is around 6 lakh cusecs. It was released on Saturday evening,” said an official of the irrigation and flood control department (I&FC), requesting not to be named.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
9. I-T Filings Double to 3 Crore, Refunds up 80%
Pressure from taxpayers and consultants may have prompted the government to extend the deadline for filing annual income tax returns but official data showed that up to late last week, returns filed for the last financial year had more than doubled to nearly 3 crore, with processing of refunds too keeping pace with the higher filings.
The number of refund cases cleared so far has gone up by over 81 percent to 65 lakh, data accessed by TOI showed. Sources said the refund amount cleared up to Thursday was almost 35 percent higher at around Rs 77,700 crore compared to the corresponding period last year when they added up to Rs 57,551 crore
(Source: The Times of India)
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