Daily Briefing: Ethnic tensions prevail in Manipur; CSK’s IPL win; 9 years of Modi; and more

🔴 For decades, Manipur has been in the cross-currents of India’s oldest insurgent movements. In our explained section, we take a look at the history of insurgency in Manipur.

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In this week’s edition of ExplainSpeaking-Economy, Udit Misra writes on how India’s economy has evolved over the last nine years under the Narendra Modi-led government: “From being one of the ‘fragile five’ to regaining the mantle of the world’s fastest growing major economy, India has come a long way in the past nine years. However, the fruits of economic growth are not getting distributed as evenly as hoped and this shows up in the relatively poor employment and per capita income statistics.” Read more.

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👉🏽 A day after top wrestlers were detained and police cleared their protest site, Deputy Commissioner of Police (New Delhi) Pranav Tayal said the wrestlers, who were released on Sunday night, would not be allowed back at Jantar Mantar.

👉🏽 At least two Mauritius companies which invested in the Adani Group companies and found mention in the Hindenburg Group’s Adani report were on the radar of Indian tax authorities for over a decade.

👉🏽 In the second such incident in Kashmir this year, a person from Jammu was killed by suspected militants in Anantnag on Monday night. The victim has been identified as Deepak Kumar, 26, from Udhampur district of Jammu region, who was working with a private circus in Anantnag.

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Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta raised concerns over banks adopting over-aggressive growth strategies and using innovative methods for evergreening of loans — reviving a loan on the verge of default by extending more loans to the same borrower. The governor noted that during the supervisory process, certain instances of concealing the real status of stressed loans have come to the notice of the RBI.

Pallavi Polekar, a 32-year-old primary school teacher in north Goa, had never seriously entertained the thought of becoming a published poet. Two years ago, she wrote a collection of 75 Marathi poems titled Swapnavel but put it aside. Pallavi was among four first-time authors whose five books were released by Governor P S Sreedharan Pillai as part of Nayi Pahel, a scheme introduced by the Raj Bhavan to help Goan writers publish their first literary works.

And Finally…

A final that dragged on for three days, that was supposed to begin on Sunday evening but finished in the early hours of Tuesday, ended with Ravindra Jadeja smacking 10 runs off the last two balls of the game to claim CSK’s fifth IPL title. The rain-lag seemed endless but in the end it turned out to be an emotional rollercoaster of a match.

The National Commission for Minorities, led by Iqbal Singh Lalpura, is tasked with protecting rights of minorities, and often issues notices when minority communities are misrepresented, particularly in the entertainment industry. This time around, it has taken up the cudgels for a late member from the minority who was not represented at all. Don’t miss today’s Delhi Confidential for more!

In today’s episode of the ‘3 Things’ podcast, we discuss the latest on the Delhi wrestlers’ protest, the National Medical Commission’s latest recommendations for people with disabilities and military cross-staffing.