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India may not sign the Hague convention on international child abduction: The government is unlikely to sign an international treaty that makes inter-country abduction of children by parents a punishable offence, reports Hindustan Times. According to women and child development ministry officials, the move would be against the interests of women fleeing bad marriages.

India’s landmark data law might not apply to Aadhaar: Data collected under Aadhaar would likely be out of the scope and purview of the new data protection framework, reports Maneesh Chhibber for ThePrint. The Justice B.N. Srikrishna Committee, constituted in the wake of the Supreme Court’s landmark ‘Right to Privacy’ judgment to come up with a data protection framework, is all set to recommend that the proposed law not be enforced retrospectively.

Aadhar card
People with their Aadhaar cards | Getty images

China wants ‘trilateral’ mechanism with India and Pakistan: India and China cannot
“afford another Doklam”, Chinese ambassador to India said, suggesting that a trilateral meeting with Pakistan be held on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meetings, reports The Indian Express. However, the ministry of external affairs dismissed the statement, calling it his personal opinion.

Pakistan has more nuclear warheads that India: The Times of India reports that Pakistan now has 140-150 nuclear warheads against India’s 130-140, according to the latest assessment of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). However, the Indian defence establishment believes its deterrence capability is “robust” and designed to ensure “survivability for retaliatory strikes”.

Security forces in Kashmir have been given a free hand, said home minister Rajnath Singh to The Hindu, a day after the Ramzan ceasefire was lifted. “A person like Shujaat (Bukhari) was killed, Aurangzeb was killed. Apart from this, many other security personnel were killed. We have given a free hand to security forces to conduct operations against terrorists,” he said.

Tracing Nirav Modi and Vijay Mallya: Nirav Modi visited the UK five times after his passport was revoked, reports Hindustan Times.The CBI said it had shared information on his passport in the ‘diffusion’ notice issued through Interpol, but Interpol branches of Belgium and the US reportedly didn’t cooperate.

Meanwhile, a fresh chargesheet against Vijay Mallya states that he used his F1 and IPL teams to divert loan funds, reports The Times of India.

Mr Kejriwal, can you sit in?: The Delhi High Court Monday asked chief minister Arvind Kejriwal whether his sit-in or ‘dharna’ at Raj Niwas had been authorised by the lieutenant-governor, saying such a strike could not be held inside someone’s office or residence, reports NDTV.

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal | Commons

‘Don’t doubt Centre’s intention on the appointment of the next CJI’: Union law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said Monday that the Centre’s intention on the appointment of the next Chief Justice of India (CJI) “should not be doubted”, reports The Tribune. The comment came in response to a question on whether the government would follow convention and appoint the next most senior judge, Justice Ranjan Gogoi, as the CJI when Justice Dipak Misra retires on 2 October.

News it’s just kinda cool to know

South Korea swapped shirts in friendlies to confuse World Cup opponents: South Korea’s coach says he made his players wear different numbered shirts in recent friendlies to confuse opponents who he says cannot tell Asians apart, reports BBC.

China’s BRI is extending into space: Many Chinese space companies, both state-run and private, wish to use satellites built for communication, navigation, and remote-sensing to build a ‘Belt-and-Road spatial information corridor’, reports Quartz.

Playing video games is a serious mental health issue: The WHO has now included “gaming disorder” as a mental health condition in its International Classification of Diseases, reports NDTV.

Business Class

ICICI is in the news again. CEO Chanda Kochhar, who is facing charges of favouritism and impropriety, will go on leave pending an inquiry. While she is away, the group’s head for life insurance, Sandeep Bakshi, will run the lender as its chief operating officer but continue to report to her, reports The Economic Times.

ICICI Bank MD & CEO Chanda Kochhar
File photo of ICICI Bank MD & CEO Chanda Kochhar | Bloomberg

After an unsuccessful attempt to privatise Air India, the government is planning to sell a portion of its 78 per cent stake in Coal India Ltd, reports Business Standard.

Point of View

There seems to be no end in sight for the tussle in Delhi between the AAP-led government and IAS officers serving there. The Indian Express, in its editorial, writes, “On show in Delhi is a bureaucracy that seems to have plunged into the fray, and is seen to be taking political sides — a grave abdication of its role and responsibility to be the faceless steel frame.”

The ‘lateral entry’ scheme recently announced by the government is one of the most-needed reforms, says former NITI Aayog vice-chairperson Arvind Panagariya in his column in The Economic Times.

You can no longer wish away rural distress, it stares you in the face. Swarna Bharat Party leader Sanjeev Sabhlok argues in his column in The Times Of India that Indian farmers’ condition can be improved only by liberalising the agriculture sector with the government staying out of it. “India’s farm sector restrictions and subsidies end up distorting incentives,” he says.

Prime Time

The Delhi dharna

Anand Narasimhan of Times Now raised the issue of the Delhi chief minister’s dharna at the L-G’s office, where, “in the battle of red-tapism, the only victim is the public”. As many as 22 files are yet to be cleared by Delhi ministers who have occupied the L-G’s office, he said. Political analyst Ravi Srivastava defended the AAP, saying IAS officers had been on strike for the last 135 days. To this, the BJP’s Harish Khurana replied, “How many times did Kejriwal attend his office in the last 135 days?”

Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, Satyendar Jain and Gopal Rai stage a dharna at Raj Niwas | Facebook

‘AAP needs to learn governance first’

The AAP-IAS officers squabble was also discussed on Arunoday Mukharji’s CNN News 18 show Viewpoint. He questioned the durability of the Delhi government’s fight against the Centre now that Manish Sisodia’s health, along with Satyendar Jain’s, was deteriorating.

AAP member Raghav Chadha said the party will continue the “satyagraha until bureaucrats return to work”. Senior journalist Sharad Pradhan said the L-G was playing the BJP’s game, but the BJP’s Narendra Taneja countered this argument and said, “AAP members assaulted the chief secretary, they need to learn governance first.”

Virushka vs the world

On India Today TV, Rahul Kanwal moderated a debate on Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli’s video shaming a ‘rich’ person for littering the streets.

Lawyer Sanjay Hegde said there was a difference between shaming privately and publicly. “The question is Anushka-Virat using their oversized clout as public celebs against somebody who is relatively smaller,” said Hegde.

Kanwal responded, “You say don’t shame him, I say why not? You shame him and send a message.” Weighing in, actress Priya Malik said, “When public figures don’t stand up to wrong things, we criticise them, but when they do, we question them.”

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