India
1.  Judge suspended after granting bail to rape-accused Gayatri Prajapati :  Additional Sessions Judge Om Prakash Mishra who granted bail to the rape accused Samajwadi Party leader and former minister Gayatri Prajapati was suspended on Friday.
2.  Drones, satellites on the job as Modi pushes team to meet his election promises :  The government is setting ambitious targets for this fiscal and the next to ensure that the poll promises of the Narendra Modi-led government are met, besides embracing technology at a faster pace to monitor programmes aimed at creating infrastructure in the country.
3.  Man lands at IGI, claims to be ISI killer, seeks refuge :  
A 38-year-old man created a flutter in Indian intelligence circles when he landed at IGI Airport on Friday morning and claimed that he was an assassin working for the Pakistani spy agency, Inter Services Intelligence (ISI).
4.  Inclination to talk must come from both sides: SC on J&K violence :  The Supreme Court said on Friday that protesters as well as the government must take steps to end the violence in Jammu and Kashmir.
5.  'We will introspect and course correct', says contrite Arvind Kejriwal after string of electoral losses :  Arvind Kejriwal has been listening, hard, to all the criticism about his high-handedness, and has finally acknowledged in a stunningly humble early morning tweet today that the need of the hour for him is "action and not excuses".
6.  Dhingra panel report on Vadra land deals sparks political war of words between Congress and BJP :  A political storm erupted on Friday, with Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress ranged on opposing sides over ET’s exclusive report on SN Dhingra Commission’s finding that Robert Vadra had made unlawful gains of Rs 50.5 crore through land deals in Gurgaon during the time Congress’ Bhupinder Singh Hooda was Haryana chief minister.
7.  This is how BJP is trying to breach Mamata Banerjee’s citadel :  Manas Mondal, who heads up the BJP’s booth committee in South Calcutta’s Bhawanipore, shared the dais this week with the party’s national boss Amit Shah in a manifest display of political mobility for a daily-wage earner. 
8.  Yogi Adityanath government moves to mend roads to salvation: Access to Ayodhya, Varanasi to get easier :  The roads to salvation are set for a makeover in Uttar Pradesh. After setting a deadline of June 15 for roads across the state to be turned pothole-free, the Yogi Adityanath government is now gearing up to spruce up the paths taken by devotees for parikrama or circumambulation of Ayodhya, Varanasi and Vrindavan.
9.  Rumours about Dawood's health false, bhai is fit and fine: Chhota Shakeel :  Speculation is rife that notorious gangster Dawood Ibrahim is no more, after some Pakistani media outlets said he's been gravely ill.
10.  Banks can’t refuse scribbled notes, says RBI circular :  The RBI has said banks cannot refuse to accept faded notes or those with scribbles. The central bank said such banknotes had to be treated as "soiled notes" and dealt with according to the RBI's "clean note policy".


World
1.  First 100 days of office most successful in US history: Donald Trump :  On the eve of completing his first 100 days in office, President Donald Trump has said this landmark timeline has been the most successful in the US history.
2.  Donald Trump tells NRA: 'You have a true friend' in White House :  President Donald Trumpreaffirmed his support for gun rights on Friday, telling attendees of aNational Rifle Association convention that "the eight-year assault on your Second Amendment freedoms has come to a crashing end."
3.  First direct London-China train completes 12,000 km run :  The first freight train to link China directly to the UK arrived in the eastern Chinese city of Yiwu Saturday after covering over 12,000-kilometres (7,500 miles), making it the second-longest route in the world.
4.  Brazil protesters, police clash in first general strike in decades :  Brazilian protesters torched buses, clashed with police in several cities and marched on President Michel Temer's Sao Paulo residence on Friday amid the nation's first general strike in more than two decades.
5.  Breakthrough as Kenya poised to elect first femalegovernors :  Women are likely to be elected for the first time to some of Kenya's powerful governor positions after making historic gains in party primaries this week, experts said, heralding a political breakthrough for the patriarchal society.
6.  EU leaders to address Ireland's future in wake of Brexit :  European Unionleaders are set to acknowledge on Saturday that Northern Irelandcould join the bloc in the future if its people vote to unite with EU member state Ireland, officials said Friday.
7.  Erdogan: 'Fresh page' for US relations with Trump :  Turkey's president says a "fresh page" in Turkish-American relations can be opened with President Donald Trump's administration, as high-level dialogue has intensified since January.
8.  'Apartheid' furor comes amid 50 years of Israeli occupation :   (Jordan): Labeling Israel's treatment of Palestinians as "apartheid" is like flinging a burning match into spilled gasoline — so combustible are the passions on both sides.
9.  Egypt issues law allowing president to appoint judges :  Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisihas ratified legal amendments that allow the president to make judicial appointments to its top courts, a move judges said would erode the independence of the judicial system.
10.  Nigeria says 15 suspected Boko Haram extremists shot dead :  I: Nigeria's military says at least 15 gunmen believed to be Boko Haram Islamic extremists have been shot dead during a battle with soldiers.


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Prasad Geeta

29/04/2017 11:32 AM