4 min readNew DelhiJun 8, 2023 08:22 AM IST
First published on: Jun 8, 2023 at 08:21 AM IST
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🔴 A six-month-long standoff between protesting wrestlers and the government finally saw a breakthrough on Wednesday. After a six-hour-long discussion with Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur, the wrestlers agreed to pause their protest until June 15. This is the date by which Thakur said a chargesheet in the sexual harassment case against WFI chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh will be filed by Delhi police.
🔴 The government almost indicated a clean-up and power-shift in the Wrestling Federation of India. The government is said to have assured the wrestlers that no one from Singh’s family will be allowed to contest the upcoming WFI elections. Read the key takeaways from the meeting.
⚡ Only in the Express
Since 2021, three districts of Jammu region – Poonch, Rajouri and Jammu – have seen fewer but bloodier and more high-visibility terror attacks when compared to the strikes in the Valley. Consider this: between January 2021 and May 30 this year, 24 security personnel and 75 civilians were killed on either side of the Pir Panjal mountain range in the Union Territory of J&K. Read more about the terror shift in J&K.
📰 From The Front Page
👉🏽 The ICICI Bank Board has given sanction to prosecute its former Managing Director and CEO Chanda Kochhar under the Prevention of Corruption Act in connection with the Videocon loan case, a special court was informed by the CBI on Wednesday.
👉🏽 The Rajya Sabha Secretariat allotted a Type-VII bungalow in New Delhi — a bungalow in this category is usually meant for MPs who are former Union Ministers, Governors or Chief Ministers — to AAP MP Raghav Chadha last year before cancelling the allotment in March this year, prompting the first-time MP to move court and get a stay against dispossession of the property.
👩🏽💻 Must Read
‘The train is our life; we can’t avoid it even if we wanted to’
Five days after the Coromandel Express was involved in an accident that killed 288 in Odisha’s Balasore, the train left on its usual route from West Bengal’s Shalimar to Chennai, carrying around 1,500 jittery travellers.
✍️ In today’s opinion section, Pramod Kumar writes on 39 years of Operation Blue Star in Punjab and how it has become a reminder of the need for respecting religious symbols, rather than a marker of social divisiveness, the politics of religious dominance or the assertion of the notion of a theocratic state.
From a new policy that outlines the education roadmap for the next 20 years to sweeping changes in school textbooks and the opening up of the Indian higher education space to foreign players, the Narendra Modi government’s second term has proven to be more eventful in terms of education compared to the first. We explain
⏱️ And Finally
The first day of the World Test Championship (WTC) ended with Australia posting a score of 327 for 3 as Travis Head and Steve Smith made merry with no support for Indian pacers Mohammed Siraj and Mohammed Shami. Read the highlights from Day 1 here
🤫 Delhi Confidential: Set to kick off the Congress campaign in Madhya Pradesh next week, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra chose an intersection location to start from: She will address a rally in Jabalpur, the heart of Mahakoshal region. The Shivraj Singh Chouhan government does not have many ministers from the region, which is said to a grouse of its residents.
🔊 In today’s 3 Things episode, we talk about the Law Commission of India’s recommendations for retaining and strengthening the sedition law, issues faced by Tihar officials due to the lack of adequate security, and Indian fishermen who have been in Pakistan jails for more than 3-4 years.
Until tomorrow,
Varsha Sriram and Rahel Philipose Pynumootil
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