1. India at CWG, Day 4: Women TT Team Creates History After Punam Yadav, Manu Bhaker Strike Gold
Day four of the 2018 Commonwealth Games at Gold Coast, Australia, has seen three more gold medals for India in the shape of weightlifter Punam Yadav, who won gold in the women’s 69kg event, teenage shooting prodigy Manu Bhaker, who won the women’s 10m air pistol event, and India women, who clinched a maiden table tennis team gold.
(Source: The Times of India)
2. Karnataka Assembly Polls: BJP Announces First List of Candidates
The BJP has announced the first list of 72 candidates who will contest the high stakes Karnataka assembly polls.
The list of names was made public following a meeting of the BJP's Central Election Committee at the party headquarters in Delhi. The meeting was chaired by party president Amit Shah, and the attendees included Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa, among others.
(Source: The Times of India)
3. Nirmala Sitharaman: Opposition Trying to Paint Govt Anti-Dalit, It Will Not Succeed; We Won't Dilute SC/ST Atrocities Act
While an “irresponsible” Opposition was trying to paint the BJP as anti-Dalit, the Modi government was committed to ensuring that the SC/ST Atrocities Act is not diluted, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said at the Express Adda on 7 April.
“Those promoting these agitations want the government to be seen as anti-Dalit. But sorry, we are not giving them the opportunity. We are with SC/STs. For those who want to make political capital out of a social guarantee given by our Constitution, I am really disappointed… that instead of fighting for (SC/ST) rights, they are building distrust… For the last 60 years, you (the Opposition) haven’t done anything for them,” she said.
(Source: The Indian Express)
4. CVC Had Raised Alarm a Year Before Nirav Modi-Mehul Choksi Scam Broke
A year before the Rs 13,600 crore Nirav Modi-Mehul Choksi bank scam came to light, the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) had sounded an alarm over irregularities in the gems and jewellery sector.
CVC's annual report for 2017 says the commission held a meeting on 5 January 2017 with senior officials of the CBI and Enforcement Directorate, and chief vigilance officers of 10 banks, including Punjab National Bank (PNB), to discuss serious irregularities in the accounts of some jewellery firms, particularly those of Jatin Mehta's Winsome group.
(Source: The Times of India)
5. Karnataka High Court Again Clears Officer, Govt Raises Fresh Objection
In another development in the stalled elevation of a judicial officer to the Karnataka High Court, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad wrote last week to Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra stating that the earlier inquiry clearing the judicial officer did not follow the Vishaka guidelines on sexual harassment.
The Law Minister’s note followed a letter from Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court Justice Dinesh Maheshwari to the CJI late last month, saying that another inquiry, by the high court’s administrative committee, had cleared the judicial officer of all charges after accepting his reply.
(Source: The Indian Express)
6. Ahmedabad-Puri Express Without Engine Rolls Back 15 Km in Odisha
Twenty-two coaches of a train carrying hundreds of passengers rolled backward and forward for about 15 km when its engine was detached at a station in Odisha on Friday night.
The Ahmedabad-Puri Express, which started sliding back around 9:35 pm from Titlagarh station, was stopped by placing stones on the tracks half an hour later at Kesinga station, but not before giving anxious moments to the passengers on board. No passengers were injured during the 30 km/h free roll, although it caused a scare among them.
The mishap occurred due to non-application of skid-brakes on the wheels of the coaches when the engine was detached at Titlagarh station, East Coast Railway (ECR) officials said.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
7. China Objects to India's 'Transgression' in Asaphila
In a fresh incident of friction, the Chinese military last month strongly protested the Indian Army’s “transgression” into the strategically sensitive Asaphila area along the disputed border in Arunachal Pradesh, but India rejected the complaint, official sources said.
The sources said the Chinese raised the issue at a ‘Border Personnel Meeting’ (BPM) on 15 March but the Indian Army dismissed it, saying that the area in the upper Subansiri region of Arunachal Pradesh belongs to India and it has regularly been carrying out patrols there.
(Source: The Hindu)
8. NIA Brands Pakistani Diplomat 'Wanted,' to Seek Interpol RCN
In a first, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has put a Pakistani diplomat on its ‘wanted’ list and released his photo, seeking information.
It said the diplomat — Amir Zubair Siddiqui, who was posted as visa counsellor in the Pakistani High Commission in Colombo — had been included in the list along with two other Pakistani officers for conspiring to launch 26/11-type attacks on US and Israeli consulates besides Army and Navy commands in south India in 2014. NIA said a fourth Pakistani officer posted in the high commission in Sri Lanka was also involved in the conspiracy.
(Source: The Times of India)
9. Cauvery Stir: Show Support, Rajini Tells CSK
Fuelled by widespread protests, the Cauvery row took centre stage on 8 April after Rajnikanth warned the Narendra Modi government that it would earn the wrath of Tamil Nadu people if the Cauvery Management Board was not formed soon.
He appealed to Chennai Super Kings (CSK) players and fans to wear black badges during the upcoming cricket matches to express their solidarity with the people of Tamil Nadu.
(Source: The Times of India)
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