Ø US
Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter will be on his first visit to India as
Secretary on June 2 during which both sides will renew the Defence Framework
Agreement (DFA) for another ten years and boost cooperation in carrier and jet
engine technology. The first agreement signed in 2005 is set to expire
next month. “And the 2015 U.S.-India Defence Framework I will sign next week
will open up this relationship on everything from maritime security to aircraft
carrier and jet engine technology cooperation,” Mr. Carter said while
addressing the ongoing Shangri-La dialogue in Singapore on Saturday.
Ø The
Centre has announced the appointment of former Singapore Foreign Minister
George Yeo as the new Chancellor of Nalanda University, months after Noble
laureate Amartya Sen withdrew his nomination, accusing the NDA government of
not being inclined to give him a second term.
Ø The
Islamic State on Saturday demolished a prison in the Syrian city of Palmyra, a
monitor said, eliminating what was for decades one of the country’s most feared
detention centres. The prison was the site of a massacre in 1980 in which
hundreds of inmates were killed. It became notorious throughout Syria as a
symbol of the brutality of the regime of former president Hafez Al-Assad and
his son and successor, Bashar.
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