India
1.  Narendra Modi’s ‘chai station’ to get Rs 8 crore facelift :   Vadnagar railway station, almost 95 km from Ahmedabad, will soon get a Rs 8 crore facelift. This was recently announced by Union minister of state for railways Manoj Sinha.
2.  J&K on the boil: Mehbooba to meet PM today to resolve alliance crisis :  Jammu & Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti has rushed to New Delhi on Saturday to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi to resolve the contentious issues that have cropped up among the coalition partners PDP and BJP over the deteriorating law and order situation in the Valley.
3.  India condemns Taliban attack on Afghan military base :  Days after the US used its most lethal weapon to target the Islamic State (Daesh) near the Afghan-Pakistan border, the Taliban stamped their presence as the biggest security threat to Afghanistan and the region with a strike on a military base that left 140 soldiers dead.
4.  Forces may buy govt’s excess pulse stock :  Stuck with nearly 20 lakh tonnes of pulses and with states showing little interest to offtake the kitchen staple, the Centre is considering options to release them quickly.
5.  New defence doctrine to ensure Army, Navy, IAF can tackle entire spectrum of conflicts :  The armed forces have formulated a new "joint doctrine" to ensure the Army, Navy and IAF plan and work together to effectively tackle the entire spectrum of conflict, ranging from full blown conventional wars to irregular and hybrid warfare, in the years ahead.
6.  Dhinakaran quizzed for 9 hours by Delhi police :  AIADMK deputy general secretary and Sasikala's nephew TTV Dhinakaran was quizzed for around nine hours on Saturday in a bribery case registered against him by Delhi police.
7.  After courting controversy on the issue, Sonu Nigam now posts recording of an 'azaan' on Twitter :  Early in the morning today, he posted on Twitter a recording of an 'azaan', the morning prayer of Muslims, which like devotional songs of other religions in India is often played over multiple microphones. This one, too, was broadcast.
8.  No one questions Muslims due to vote-bank politics: Tripura governor :  Muslim religious traditions such as burqa (veil), polygamy and triple talaq are not questioned because of vote-bank politics, Tripura governor Tathagata Roy has said. 
9.  SpiceJet plays national anthem with passengers strapped to seats :  The flight is about to land; all passengers are strapped in; and the national anthem starts playing on the plane's PA system.
Do the passengers stand up to show respect, or remain strapped in as per flight rules? This unlikeliest of dilemmas did play out — on a SpiceJet flight from Tirupati to Hyderabad on April 18, prompting a passenger to file a complaint with the airline.
10.  Delhi goes to vote :  The MCD elections promise to be hotly-contested, with the BJP, AAP and Congress engaging in a triangular fight. The whole country is looking to Delhi as the BJP seeks to cash in on PM Modi's popularity and promise of good governance, while the AAP hopes to holds onto its home turf.


World
1.  Pope likens migrant holding centres to 'concentration camps' :  Francis urged governments on Saturday to get migrants and refugees out of holding centres, saying many had become "concentration camps".
2.   France on edge as presidential vote looms :    France was on edge Saturday on the eve of its most unpredictable presidential election in decades, which will take place on Sunday under heightened security after the jihadist killing of a policeman.
3.  Thousands rally in global March for Science :  Thousands of people joined a global March for Science on Saturday with Washington the epicenter of a movement to fight back against what many see as an "assault on facts" by populist politicians.
4.  'Bangladesh relies on BIMSTEC after SAARC failure' :  
 Bangladeshis hopeful of forging regional cooperation through BIMSTECafter the failure of SAARC, a top aide of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Saturday.
5.  Russia tried to use Trump advisers to influence election: Report :  Russian operatives tried to infiltrate Donald Trump's presidential campaign through his advisers, including foreign policy aide Carter Page, CNN reported Saturday.
7.  Man arrested at Paris train station after threatening police with knife :  A knife-wielding man threatened police at Gare du Nord train station in Paris on Saturday, causing panic before he was arrested, a spokesman for French rail operator SNCF said.
8.  In or out? EU is hot-button issue in French vote :  Such is Marine Le Pen's aversion to the European Union that the French far-right leader demanded the removal of its star-spangled flag from a TV studio before agreeing to a recent interview.
9.  Pak man eats leaves for 25 years, never falls ill :  A man in Pakistan's Punjab province has been surviving on fresh leaves and wood for the last 25 years and has never fallen ill.
10.  North Korea says ready to strike US aircraft carrier :  North Korea said on Sunday it was ready to sink a U.S. aircraft carrier to demonstrate its military might, as two Japanese navy ships joined a U.S. carrier group for exercises in the western Pacific.


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Prasad Geeta

23/04/2017 12:07 PM