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J&K back to governor’s rule, and why YouTube blocked PIB’s channel

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Governor takes charge of J&K: A day after the BJP-PDP split, governor N.N. Vohra took over the reins of administration in Jammu and Kashmir. As he reviewed security preparedness in the militancy-hit state, he brought on BVR Subrahmanyam, who is credited with charting and overseeing the Chhattisgarh police’s ongoing “toughest war against” the Maoist insurgency, as chief secretary. B.B. Vyas and anti-Naxalism expert K. Vijay Kumar were named advisers to the governor, reports The Tribune.

Will be easier to work under governor’s rule, says J&K police chief: Director General of Police (DGP) S.P. Vaid Wednesday said counter-terror operations would be much “easier” for security agencies under governor’s rule, adding that they would be intensified, reports The Indian Express.

New Panama Papers reveal fresh financial secrets of Indian clients: The Indian Express has investigated more than 1.2 million fresh documents of the Panama Papers and found them linked to at least 12,000 Indians.

The second lot of the Panama Papers highlights details of offshore companies incorporated by a clutch of Indian businessmen who did not figure in the 2016 leak. These include Ajay Bijli, owner of PVR cinemas, Kavin Bharti Mittal, CEO of Hike Messenger and son of Sunil Mittal, and, Jalaj Ashwin Dani, son of Asian Paints promoter Ashwin Dani.

YouTube blocked PIB’s channel: The YouTube channel for the government’s PR arm, the Press Information Bureau, has been blocked by YouTube because of an update in its “partner agreement”. The realisation, however, only struck after the government’s media wing could not livestream railway minister Piyush Goyal’s press conference on 19 June, reports The Times of India.

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Railway minister Piyush Goyal | Getty Images

Congress, JD(S) to include farm loan waiver in draft alliance memo: A five-member committee constituted to draft the common minimum programme for the Congress-JD(S) alliance in Karnataka will also list the promised waiver for farm loans taken from government-run cooperative banks, reports The Hindu. Loans taken up till 31 May 2018 are likely to be eligible for the waiver.

After dharna, Kejriwal to go on 10 days’ leave: After the four-month standoff between the AAP-led Delhi government and IAS officers was resolved Tuesday, ministers and civil servants held at least 20 meetings in different groups Wednesday. However, unease persisted as the government announced that CM Arvind Kejriwal was going on leave for 10 days for his naturopathy treatment in Bengaluru, throwing into uncertainty a meeting civil servants had sought with him, reports Hindustan Times.

China distances itself from trilateral talks idea: China Wednesday distanced itself from its envoy’s comments on possible trilateral cooperation between India, China and Pakistan under the aegis of the SCO, but underlined the importance of stronger dialogue between New Delhi and Islamabad to improve mutual trust, reports PTI.

India’s first river interlinking project caught in UP-MP tussle: Disagreements over water-sharing and difficulty in acquiring non-forest land impede the ₹18,000 crore Ken Betwa river interlinking project, reports The Hindu. Another hurdle is a dispute over how Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh — the two beneficiaries — will share water in the Rabi season.

Business Class

Arvind Subramanian resigns, Jaitley announces CEA’s exit on FB: Subramanian will step down within the next two months, after nearly four years as chief economic adviser. His tenure with the government, extended last year, was to run till May 2019, reports Business Standard.

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Former chief economic adviser to the government of India, Arvind Subramanian | Flickr

US investors have ‘lost confidence’ in ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar: US stock holders of ICICI Bank are not confident about an insider succeeding Kochhar and want an outsider to take charge, reports The Economic Times.

Bank of Maharashtra CEO held over ₹2,043 crore scam: Maharashtra police arrested the CEO and an executive director of state-run Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) Wednesday, accusing them of misusing their authority to give loans to a property developer, reports Livemint.

Stuff it’s just kinda cool to know

Kashmiri Pandit, Muslim artists come together for art exhibit: Kashmiri artists from all over the world came together Tuesday for an art exhibition in Srinagar aimed at bridging the divide between the two communities and promoting peace in the conflict-torn Valley, reports Rising Kashmir.

Some rivers are so drug-polluted, their eels get high on cocaine: In the name of research, scientists pushed cocaine on European eels in labs for 50 days in a row, in an effort to monitor the effects, and learnt that it can take a toll on their psychology, reports National Geographic.

Point of view

Every time governor’s rule has been imposed in J&K, the situation has worsened and alienation grown, writes MLC Firdous Tak of the PDP in his column for The Indian Express. He says, “History bears witness that each time the Centre took this decision the situation went from bad to worse, people were alienated further, faith in the democratic set-up suffered a major dent and political processes and institutions were the first victim.”

Mehbooba Mufti
File photo of Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti | PTI

Delay in decision over Kochhar’s term will reflect badly on ICICI, says Business Standard in an editorial. “Accusations about improper loan evaluation procedures at the highest level should have been addressed much before now,” it states.

Prime Time

‘Secular bigotry’

Referring to Rashtriya Hindu Sena chief Pramod Muthalik’s statement comparing Gauri Lankesh to a dog, Preeti Choudhary of India Today TV asked, “Is bigotry in secular India the new normal?” Tuhin Sinha of the BJP and Shriraj Nair of the VHP dismissed the charge that lynching had anything to do with religion or that calling humans dogs was aimed at any particular people. It was just a general thing, said Nair.

‘Politics of suicide’

On Times Now, Navika Kumar claimed Rohith Vemula’s mother was offered Rs 15 lakh for a 2BHK by Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) to carry out a slander campaign against the Modi government, “but two years and a bounced cheque later, she is now a political pawn”. This is the BJP’s style, said M.K. Muneer of the IUML. “They think lies will become the truth if they say it,” he added. Sambit Patra of the BJP replied, “IUML and its leaders are nothing but props of Congress party.”


With inputs from Prateek Gupta and Ratnadeep Choudhary

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