INDIA (National Affairs)
Murdered man was daily wager from Tarn Taran, father of three
Lakhbir Singh was separated from his wife and children for the past five years and stayed with his sister in Cheema Kalan village. He was last seen in the village on Tuesday.
https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/amritsar/singhu-border-lynching-daily-wage-worker-7574188/
Car ploughs through Durga Puja procession: One killed, 16 critical
Jashpur police said two men, Babloo Vishwakarma (21) and Shishupal Sahu (26), residents of Singrauli in Madhya Pradesh, were arrested after the incident in Pathalgaon, 113 km from the district headquarters.
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/durga-puja-procession-car-accident-16-critical-7574142/
Govt’s foreign policy — how to lose friends, influence nobody: Rahul Gandhi’s dig at Centre
Bhutan’s Foreign Minister Lyonpo Tandi Dorji and China’s Assistant Foreign Minister Wu Jianghao signed the MoU on the “three-step roadmap” on Thursday for expediting the Bhutan-China Boundary negotiations.
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/govts-foreign-policy-how-to-lose-friends-influence-nobody-rahuls-dig-at-centre-7573910/
Govt rubbishes Global Hunger Index ranking, questions methodology
In its findings released earlier this week, GHI said India trails behind neighbours Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. Of the 116 countries ranked this year, eighteen countries, including China, Brazil and Kuwait, share the top rank with a GHI score of less than five.
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-global-hunger-index-ranking-reaction-7573736/
INDIA (Community Affairs)
To counter namaz in open, Gurgaon residents show up with mic, sing bhajans
Prayers were offered amid heavy police presence as at least 70-80 people, carrying placards, raised slogans and tried to march towards the site. Police created a security cordon and stopped them.
https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/to-counter-namaz-in-open-gurgaon-residents-show-up-with-mic-sing-bhajans-7574134/
BJP throwing acid on state like jilted lover, says Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray
Thackeray further said that Hindutva is under threat from the “neo-Hindus”. “The threat to Hindutva is not from others but from the ‘neo-Hindus’…Those who have used the ladder of Hindutva to come to power,” he said.
https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/bjp-throwing-acid-state-like-jilted-lover-maharashtra-cm-uddhav-thackeray-7574145/
FOREIGN
‘Terrorist incident’: UK MP David Amess stabbed to death
Metropolitan Police Terrorism Command leads investigation into attack on Amess who was stabbed to death by a man who walked into his meeting.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/15/uk-mp-david-amess-stabbed-at-local-office
MUSLIM WORLD
Turkish lira falls out of favour with local investors again
With the prospect of another interest-rate cut looming large after the removal of three key policymakers, the fear now is that households and companies will switch back into dollars and euros en masse.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/10/14/turkish-lira-falls-out-of-favour-with-local-investors-again
Bangladesh temple attacks: Those involved will be ‘hunted down and punished,’ says Sheikh Hasina
Prime Minister Hasina promised to bring to justice the culprits behind the violence, saying anyone involved in the attacks on Hindu temples and Durga Puja venues in Comilla will not be spared.
https://indianexpress.com/article/world/bangladesh-temple-attack-sheikh-hasina-7573093/
EDITORIAL
Those who killed a Dalit Sikh at site of farmers’ protests must face the full force of law
Punjab’s hard-won peace is at stake, a bunch of thugs on camera should not be allowed to hijack it with their show of brutality.
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/editorials/singhu-border-lynching-skm-7573973/
OPED ARTICLES
You can switch off Siri, but not the State
Menaka Guruswamy writes: There are plans for greater deployment of AI and harvesting of our data for various purposes. The lack of any rights paradigm, data protection law in this context is deeply unsettling.
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/data-protection-law-ai-privacy-7574043/
ECONOMIC / BUSINESS / FINANCE
Important for India to focus on green investment post-pandemic: IMF
https://www.financialexpress.com/economy/important-for-india-to-focus-on-green-investment-post-pandemic-imf/2349634/
TWEETS
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind @JIHMarkaz
Renowned Islamic scholar and veteran leader of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind T.K. Abdullah Sahib has passed away. May Allah accept his great contributions and reward him the highest place in Jannat-ul-Firdaus. Aameen
https://twitter.com/JIHMarkaz/status/1449048982508867586
Salim Engineer @MSalimEngineer
It is shocking but not a surprise that Additional Session Judge Vinod Yadav has been transferred. The Judge was hearing 2020 Delhi riot cases and raised very serious questions on the investigations by Delhi police. It raises serious concerns about freedom of judiciary.
https://twitter.com/MSalimEngineer/status/1446112480334254093
Dr. Audrey Truschke @AudreyTruschke
A lot of Hindutva-isn’t-so-bad nonsense is going around at the moment. My advice–Read Hindu nationalist ideologues for yourself. See the exclusion and majoritarianism they espouse. E.g., here’s Golwalkar, an early Hindutva thinker, on “the non-Hindu people in Hindustan”…
https://twitter.com/AudreyTruschke/status/1449002023383359489
