India
1.‘No shortage of ration, quality checks done’: MHA report on BSF jawan video.The Home Ministry has in a report to the Prime Minister's Office today said it has found no substance in a complaint by a BSF jawan that poor quality rations were given to security personnel posted along the border, asserting "there was no widespread discontent" in constabulary over food.
2.Home Ministry asks paramilitary forces to address grievances of jawans.The Home Ministry today directed all paramilitary forces to ensure speedy redressal of jawans' grievances and inform everyone about the existing mechanism to resolve their problems in the wake of a personnel complaining about "poor quality" of food being served in BSF.
3.Use complaint boxes instead of posting on social media: Army Chief to troops,Army Chief Bipin Rawat on Friday said that soldiers can write to the Army regarding their grievances using a complaint and suggestions box, instead of using social media.
4.Modi replaces Gandhi on Khadi Gram Udyog's calendar; employees protest.Defending the move of Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) to publish Prime Minister Narendra Modi's photo on its 2017 calendar and table diary, KVIC chairman V K Saxena said there is "no rule or tradition" that only Mahatma Gandhi's picture can be published on these items.
5.Despite Supreme Court ban, a defiant Madurai conducts Jallikattu. While opposition parties in Tamil Nadu are protesting the government’s failure to revoke the ban on Jallikattu, defiant citizens of Madurai have gone a step ahead and conducted the bull-taming sport on Friday.
6.Demonetisation: PAC says Modi will not be called, rejects its chief's remarks. Virtually rejecting its Chairman K V Thomas' view, the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament today decided that the Prime Minister will not be called before it after BJP members strongly objected to the Congress leader's remarks that he may be asked to appear over the demonetisation issue.
7.Sports Ministry lifts suspension on IOA after u-turn on Kalmadi, Chautala. Sports Ministry on Friday decided to revoke its decision to suspend Indian Olympic Association (IOA) after it reversed its decision to name Suresh Kalmadi and Abhay Chautala Life Presidents.
8.AIADMK urges Puducherry govt to declare MGR’s birthday as public holiday.AIADMK urges Puducherry govt to declare MGR’s birthday as public holiday
9.Asaduddin Owaisi asks Centre to end Haj subsidy.AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday asked the government to abolish  the subsidy for the Haj pilgrimage.Claiming that the “Haj subsidy of Rs  690 crore is given to Air India and not the pilgrims, the MP said that the money is going to Air India — which is a sick airline — in the name of subsidy.
10.Mamata Banerjee dares CBI to arrest her and all TMC MPs and MLAs. Renewing her attack against Prime Minister Narendra Modi on demonetisation and arrest of her party MPs, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today dared the CBI to arrest her and all TMC MPs and MLAs.
11.Nexus between food suppliers, Army officers in Assam Rifles, allege troops.After complaints by Border Security Force (BSF) and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) constables, a cartel of food contractors supplying poor and inferior quality food in the Assam Rifles has come to light in Assam.


World
1.UK Opposition MP resigns with reference to Indian politics.The UK's Opposition Labour party was on Friday rocked by the resignation of one of its popular MPs Tristram Hunt, who lamented the "swing away" from mainstream social democratic and socialist parties in countries like India, Greece and America.
2.Nawaz Sharif trying to escape Panamagate case: Imran Khan. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was trying to escape the Panamagate case in the Supreme Court as he did not possess any evidence to prove himself innocent, opposition leader Imran Khan on Friday alleged.
3.Assange agrees to extradition if US releases whistleblower.WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will agree to be extradited to the United States if President Barack Obama grants clemency to the former US soldier Chelsea Manning, jailed for leaking documents, the company said on Thursday.
4.Canadian PM Trudeau grilled about luxury holiday on Aga Khan's Island.Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, under fire for holidaying on a Caribbean island owned by the Aga Khan, on Thursday revealed he had flown there by private helicopter - an apparent breach of official ethics rules.
5.Musharraf files petition seeking 'foolproof security' in Pakistan.Citing "serious security threats", Pakistan's former dictator Gen Pervez Musharraf on Friday filed a petition in an anti-terrorism court, seeking "foolproof security" in order to be able to return to the country and appear in the judges' detention case.
6.Morocco's burqa ban recieves mixed opinions.Morocco's ban on the sale and production of burqa full-face Muslim veils beloved of Salafists has sharply divided opinions in the North African country."The burqa is not an item of clothing just like any other... it's an instrument of oppression, a horrific negation of women, an insult to half of humanity," according to award-winning French-Moroccan novelist Leila Slimani.
7.Pak 'deeply concerned' over RAW activities, 'nexus' with Afghan intel.Voicing "deep concern" over the activities of Indian spy agency RAW and its "nexus" with Afghan intelligence, Pakistan on Friday claimed "some foreign elements" were using the Afghan soil to foment trouble in the country.
8.US tweet riles Turkey over Kurdish fighters.A tweet sent by US Central Command insisting its Kurdish allies in the fight against IS in Syria are not linked to outlawed militants in Turkey whipped up a storm on Thursday, with Ankara asking if Washington had "lost its senses".
9.Hong Kong's chief secretary resigns; leadership bid expected.Hong Kong's No. 2 government official resigned on Thursday in what is widely seen as preparation for a bid for the southern Chinese city's top leadership job.
10.26 N Koreans rescued as cargo ship sinks off Japan. Japan rescued 26 North Koreans after they abandoned their sinking cargo vessel in the East China Sea, the coast guard said on Thursday.Japan Coast Guard patrol boats plucked the ship's entire crew out of the water in the early hours of the morning after they had abandoned the vessel and taken to life boats.


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Prasad Geeta

13/01/2017 04:42 PM