1. Pakistan is Terroristan: India at UN
In a sharp riposte to Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi’s charge that New Delhi was running a campaign of subversion and state-sponsored terrorism against Islamabad, India on Friday described Pakistan as “Terroristan” and “land of pure terror”, at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on 22 September.
At the UNGA last year, India had called Pakistan the “Ivy League of terrorism”. Like last year, India’s reply was given by Eenam Gambhir, a 2005-batch diplomat, in New York.
“In its short history, Pakistan has become a geography synonymous with terror. The quest for a ‘land of pure’ (Pakistan means the land of the pure) has actually produced ‘the land of pure terror’. Pakistan is now ‘Terroristan’, with a flourishing industry producing and exporting global terrorism,” said Gambhir, reading from a prepared text.
(Source: The Indian Express)
2. Compensate Victims of Cow Vigilantism, SC Tells States
Victims of crime, including people killed by cow protection groups, were entitled to financial compensation from the government, the Supreme Court said on 22 September as it asked states to appoint district-level police officers to check violence by gau rakshaks.
The court also asked the chief secretaries of 22 states to file compliance reports in pursuance of its order on laying down a mechanism to sternly deal with self-styled cow vigilante groups.
“The state is under obligation to frame a scheme and compensate those who are killed in violence,” said a bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra in reponse to advocate Indira Jaising’s plea for a judicial order for paying compensation to the family of 15-year-old Junaid who was killed in a train near Delhi on 23 June.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
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3. Rohingya Refugee Tide India’s Challenge Too: Bangladesh
Hasina and Rashidul Islam’s third child came into the world at lunchtime Wednesday. Blood from his birth ran from the floor of the tarpaulin-sheet shelter, over sodden yellow clay, into a ditch running along the road. No chicken was slaughtered to celebrate the birth of a son: the family had just ended a 15-day journey to safety, fleeing the hamlet of Toarbil in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.
“I don’t know what the future holds for us,” Rashidul Islam said, “I can’t even afford to bury my son if he dies.”
In Bangladesh, now home to a tide of refugees that United Nations estimates put at 500,000, and unofficial ones place up to 200,000 higher, officials fear that failure to address the needs of desperately poor families could see this catastrophe degenerate into a region-wide security crisis. Long-term hardship, officials are warning, can spark communal destabilisation inside Bangladesh, and set off security challenges.
(Source: The Indian Express)
4. Bengaluru I-T Officer's Kidnapped Son Murdered, 4 Held
The 19-year-old son of an income tax officer, abducted 10 days ago for ransom, was strangled to death by his captors, police said on 22 September after his body was exhumed from a quarry . The crime was masterminded by a family friend and neighbour.
The body of Sharath N, son of income tax officer V Niranjan Kumar, was found at a quarry near Manchanabele dam, west of Bengaluru, where it had been buried by the culprits. He was killed soon after the abduction.
(Source: Times of India)
5. Question Mark Over SAARC Summit Again
For the second year in a row, there may be no SAARC summit. India, Bangladesh and Afghanistan had pulled out of the 2016 SAARC summit citing Pakistan's open support to terror that impacted all three countries. Islamabad was supposed to host the 2016 summit, which had to be cancelled.
This year too, there appears to be no move to hold the summit. SAARC summits are generally held in November.
As Sushma Swaraj met SAARC foreign ministers in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session, India's disinterest in the summit was evident, which has resulted in a downgrading of the institution where India plays the lead role. With India-Pakistan bilateral relations in free-fall, it has had an impact on the South Asian body.
(Source: Times of India)
6. Ryan School Murder Case: CBI Takes Over Probe
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on 22 September took over the probe into the murder of seven- year-old boy – Pradyumn at Gurugram's Ryan International School. The incident created a furore with private school administrations coming under the scanner.
Sources confirmed that agency received a formal notification from the central government.
An FIR is being registered in the matter on Friday and a team will be rushed with forensic experts to the school to take statements of Pradhyumn's parents.
(Source: Times of India)
7. Start-Up Funding Crawls: 20 Months, Rs 70 Crore
Since it was floated in January 2016, the government’s Rs 10,000-crore Fund-of-Funds for start-ups (FFS), launched in line with the Start-up India Action Plan of the Government, has made slow progress with only about Rs 70 crore having been disbursed to start-ups until the beginning of this month.
The fund, which aims to invest in local venture capital funds that would, in turn, back seed-stage and early-stage companies, has made commitments to 62 start-ups.
All these 62 start-ups were backed by Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) where state-owned SIDBI (Small Industries Development Bank of India) acted as a limited partner.
(Source: The Indian Express)
8. Karti Chidambaram Went Abroad to Close Foreign Bank Accounts: CBI Tells SC
The CBI told the Supreme Court on Friday that Karti Chidambaram, son of former Union minister P Chidambaram, was prevented from travelling abroad as he was allegedly closing several of his foreign bank accounts.
Justifying the issuance of a look out circular (LoC) against Karti, the agency also claimed before a bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra that “shocking” details have emerged during his foreign visits which were directly connected to the FIR lodged in the corruption case.
Source: Hindustan Times
9. IIT-K Suspends 22 Students For Ragging
IIT-Kanpur suspended 22 students late on 21 September night following complaints of ragging and sexual harassment of undergraduate freshers on 19 and 20 August.
Some of the victims complained that they were forced to strip by their seniors, who remain suspended till the next meeting of the senate of the premier institute.
The seniors have been asked to vacate their hostel rooms immediately and are barred from entering the campus till the authorities call them to record their statements after the Dussehra holidays.
A member of the senate said, “A nine-member probe panel, comprising four faculty members and five students, had investigated the charges levelled by the freshers and found them to be true.The panel had recommended that all the 22 accused be suspended from the institute. On Thursday , the senate decided to hear the accused students before taking a call.”
(Source: Times of India)
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