India
1.   Prez poll: With 63% of votes in bag, Kovind win seems certain :  The combined opposition has named former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar as its candidate for the presidential poll but NDA nominee Ram Nath Kovind's victory is a foregone conclusion, with 63.1% of the electoral college votes already in the bag.
2.  Modi-Trump meet: 'US approves sale of 22 Guardian drones to India' :  The US has cleared the sale of 22 Guardian drones to India, government sources said on Thursday, a deal being termed as a "game changer" for bilateral ties ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's maiden visit to Washingtonfor his meeting with President Donald Trump.
3.  Murder charge slapped on GJM chief and wife :  The Bengal government on Thursday slapped murder charges on Bimal Gurung and his wife, Asha, stepping up the heat on the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha.
4. 'Manufactured facts cannot alter reality': India on Jadhav's confessional video released by Pak :   India on Thursday dismissed as "farcical" Pakistan releasing a fresh "confessional video" of Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav and said "manufactured facts" cannot alter the reality in the case.
5.  Pak: Jadhav has sought mercy from army chief :  Former Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav, who has been sentenced to death by a military court in Pakistan for espionage and subversive activities, filed a petition before the country's Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa for mercy, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the Pak army's media arm, said on Thursday.
6.  Nasa launches world's lightest satellite designed by 18-year-old TN student :   On Thursday, India once again broke a global space record by launching the world's lightest satellite weighing a mere 64 grams, called Kalamsat, designed and developed not by professional space scientists and engineers, but by 18-year-old Tamil Nadu student Rifath Sharook and his team.
7.  Bihar railway blast plotters had also planted another bomb, says NIA :  The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has established that the group hired by Pakistan's ISIthrough Nepalese national Shamshul Hoda to plant a pressure cooker bomb on the railway track in Bihar's Ghorasahan on September 20 last year, had also planted a bomb on the track near Nakardei railway station in East Champaran on December 2.
8.  Terror, US aid to Pak to figure in Modi-Trump talks :  Ahead of PM Narendra Modi's visit to the US, the government hinted on Thursday that the PM would raise terrorism emanating from Pakistan and US military aid to Islamabad in his meeting with President Donald Trump.
9.  India seeks to build security bridges with Asean members :  India seeks to help improve security networks with countries in the Asean region, using strong bilateral relations and economic and physical integration with the member countries.
10.  Pakistan's BAT attack in J&K: 2 Indian soldiers martyred, two attackers killed :   The Army killed two "armed intruders" to foil yet another Pakistani BAT (border action team) operation in the Poonch district along the volatile Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday afternoon. Two soldiers of the Maratha Light Infantry, Naik Jadhav Sandip Sarjerao and Sepoy Mane Savan Balku, laid down their lives in the operation.


World
1.  Trump's bright idea: A solar wall at the US-Mexico border :  US President Donald Trump wants to add solar panels to his long-promised southern border wall - a plan he says would help pay for the wall's construction and add to its aesthetic appeal.
2.  France outlines tough new anti-terrorism law :  French President Emmanuel Macron's government on Thursday set out a tough new anti-terrorism law that has already faced protests from civil rights groups.
3.  North Korea conducts rocket engine test: US official :  North Korea has tested a rocket engine that could potentially be fitted to an intercontinental ballistic missile, a US official told AFP on Thursday, amid soaring tensions over Kim Jong-Un's nuclear weapons program.
4.  IS blows up Mosul mosque, latest heritage site destroyed :  The Islamic State group's destruction of a 12th century mosque and its iconic leaning minaret in the Iraqi city of Mosul is only the latest in a long list of priceless archaeological and other cultural sites that the militants have ravaged.
5.  3 dead in suicide blast at police station in Somalia capital :  At least three people are dead and several others wounded after a suicide car bomb blast at a police station in Somalia's capital.
6. Arab states send Qatar 13 demands to end crisis, official says :  Four Arab states boycotting Qatar over alleged support for terrorism have sent Doha a list of 13 demandsincluding closing Al Jazeera television and reducing ties to their regional adversary Iran, an official of one of the four countries said.
7.  At least five dead in southwestern Pakistan explosion : 
 An explosion targeting a police vehicle in Pakistan's southwestern Quettacity on Friday killed at least five people and injured 14 others, officials said.
8.  No tapes after all: Trump says he didn't record Comey talks :  President Donald Trump declared on Thursday he never made and doesn't have recordings of his private conversations with ousted former FBI Director James Comey, ending a month-long guessing game that he started with a cryptic tweet and that ensnared his administration in yet more controversy.
9.  Bill tabled in US House of Representatives to revoke Pakistan's non-NATO ally status :  A bipartisan bill seeking to revoke Pakistan's status as major non-NATO ally (MNNA) to the US has been introduced in the House of Representatives by two top lawmakers, saying the country failed to effectively fight terrorism.
10.  China avoids comment on plans to build big dam in PoK :  China today avoided commenting on claims in the Pakistani media that Beijing will fund the $14 billion Diamer-Bhasha dam in PoK and has agreed to include the project in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.


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Prasad Geeta

23/06/2017 12:13 PM