India
1.  India will soon have its own liveability index :  You would soon know how liveable your city is. Taking a leaf out of international practice of rating cities on liveability, India is all set to introduce its own liveability index.
2.  Rahul Gandhi, Arvind Kejriwal come out in support of DU girl Gurmehar Kaur :  Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Monday expressed his support to Delhi University student Gurmehar Kaur, who allegedly received rape threats after her online campaign against the ABVPwent viral.
3.  Paramilitary force to use modified pellet guns in Jammu and Kashmir :  The Central Reserve Police Force has finally come up with a solution to the eyes and face injuries caused on hundreds of protestors over last eight months due to the use of pellet guns.
4.  Release drought relief funds: Tamil Nadu chief minister Palaniswami to PM Narendra Modi :  amil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswamion Monday appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modito immediately release relief funds for the drought-hit state and for the damage caused by Cyclone Vardah.
5.  Question paper leak: Army orders internal Court of Inquiry :  The Army has now ordered an internal Court of Inquiry (CoI) headed by a major-general into the alleged leak of question papers of its recruitment examination for soldiers after the Thane Police on Sunday detected the racket and arrested over 18 suspects, forcing the cancellation of the test for the entire Pune Zone.
6.  Gujarat IS brothers give cops names of 40 operatives :  The two Islamic State terror group suspects arrested from Rajkot and Bhavnagar on Sunday have confessed to their plans of planting bombs in the thickly populated Trikon Baug and Gundawadi areas of Rajkot this week.
7.  In goodwill gesture, India to release 39 Pakistan prisoners :  In a significant sign that India is finally responding to Islamabad's peace overtures, the government has decided to release 39 Pakistan's nationals currently languishing in Indian jails.
8.  SIMI chief Safdar Nagori gets life for waging war against state :  Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) chief Safdar Nagori and 10 members of his terrorist outfit were sentenced to life imprisonment by a special CBI court in Indore on Monday, in a major boost for law enforcement against the outlawed group which has allegedly been the feeder for jihadi groups.
9.  Intolerance, again: Rijiju, BJP MP attack martyr’s daughter :  The slugfest over last week's violence at DU's Ramjas College has snowballed into another nationalist-versus-liberal confrontation, with Kargil martyr's daughter and DU student Gurmehar Kaurcoming under fierce attack from the saffron camp for her social media post condemning the "violence by ABVP" and an earlier post in which she said war, not Pakistan, had killed her father.
10.  Key NHRC post vacant as ministers campaign, Supreme Court told :  The government told the Supreme Court on Monday that selection of an eminent person for a vacant National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) post was delayed as key ministers were busy campaigning for the elections to five states.


World
1.  Afghan official: Policeman turns gun on colleagues, kills 11 :  Afghanistan: Afghan officials say at least 11 police officers have been shot and killed by a fellow policeman at a checkpoint in the southern Helmand province.
2.  Russia pledges to veto UN sanctions resolution on Syria :  Russia pledged to veto a Western-backed UNresolution Tuesday that would impose sanctions on 21 Syrian individuals, organizations and companies allegedly involved in chemical weapons attacks in the war-ravaged country.
3.  Xi's 'core' party position cemented in China's ideological education :  China cemented President Xi Jinping's position as the "core" of the Communist Partyon Monday, making it part of ideological teaching in colleges and universities as Beijingtightens its hold on education.
4.  Suspect in Kansas shooting appears in court :  Adam Purinton, the man charged with killing Indian techie Srinivas Kuchibhotla and injuring two others in an apparent hate crime at a pub in Kansas, has made his first court appearance.
5.  China says it has received its largest foreign drone order :  An undisclosed buyer has placed the largest overseas order for China's home-developed military drones, the Xinhua news agency has reported, in a boost for the Chinese arms industry's efforts to increase export volumes.
6.  Jewish centers in US cope with bomb threats; graves vandalized :  Jewish centers and schools across the nation coped with another wave of bomb threats Monday as officials in Philadelphiamade plans to repair and restore hundreds of vandalized headstones at a Jewish cemetery.
7.  US Senate confirms billionaire investor Wilbur Ross as commerce secretary :  The Senate on Monday confirmed billionaire investor Wilbur Ross as commerce secretary as President Donald Trump adds to his economic team.
8.  SpaceX to send first paying tourists around moon next year :  Florida: SpaceXplans to launch two paying passengers on a tourist trip around the moon next year using a spaceship under development for NASA astronauts and a heavy-lift rocket yet to be flown, the launch company announced on Monday.
9.  Four North Korean spies involved in Kim killing in Malaysia: Seoul :  South Korea's intelligence service says four North Korean government spies were involved in the killing of North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un's estranged half brother.
10.  Air strike kills key Afghan Taliban commander :  An air strike has killed an Afghan Talibancommander who twice oversaw the capture of a strategic northern city, officials said on Monday, in a major blow to the insurgent group.


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Prasad Geeta

28/02/2017 12:13 PM