Ø
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi, an avid user of social media, is the third most followed world leader on
micro blogging website Twitter, next only to U.S. President Barack Obama and
the Pope.
Ø The government, re-appointed Harun Rashid Khan as
the Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, for a further period of two years.
Ø Fifty-one Indian and Bangladeshi nurses who
were moved out of Tikrit
hospital at
gunpoint on Thursday are believed to be headed towards the Sunni-dominated west
bank of Mosul, out of reach of the Iraqi forces, a senior Kurdish military
source has told The Hindu .
Ø Though the Railway budget to be tabled before
Parliament on July 8 is likely to have proposals on high speed bullet trains, Railway Minister Sadananda Gowda also has
plans for improving the state of existing trains. The railway budget is
expected to generate a different buzz because of the Modi government’s promise
to revitalise this critical infrastructure sector as mentioned in the
President's address to the joint session of Parliament. The Railways now
aims to continuously focus on refurbished coaches, mechanised cleaning of
coaches, clean train station scheme and comprehensive pest control.
| Sunanda Pushkar |
Ø Clearing air on Sunanda Puskhar's autopsy
report issue, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Head of the
Forensic Department Sudhir Gupta said that the post-mortem report
prepared by him was authentic.
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When Sheila
Dikshit was the Chief Minister of Delhi, her official residence on Motilal
Nehru Marg had 31 air conditioners, 15 desert coolers, 16 air purifiers and 14
heaters installed on the premises. The bungalow has four bedrooms.
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