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Monday Evening News Brief, December 11

Dec 11, 2017
Monday evening brief Dec 11 2017
Good evening!
Here’s everything that transpired during the course of the day…
Manmohan Singh has hit back at PM Modi for allegedly spreading “falsehood and canards”. Singh was responding to PM’s accusation that Congress leaders secretly met former foreign minister of Pakistan and its envoy at Mani Shankar Aiyar’s house. “My track record of public service to the country over last five decades is known to everyone. No one, including Sh. Modi, can lamely question it to gain lost political ground,” the former PM said. Read.
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The Congress has named Rahul Gandhi its new president. “I hereby declare Shri Rahul Gandhi elected as the president of the Indian National Congress,” senior party leader Mullappally Ramachandran said at a press conference in New Delhi. The 47-year-old leader will take over the reins of the party from his mother and current president, Sonia Gandhi, on December 16.
Saudi Arabia today said that public cinemas would be allowed in the conservative kingdom. “As the industry regulator, the general commission for Audiovisual Media has started the process for licensing cinemas in the Kingdom,” Minister of Culture and Information Awwad bin Saleh Alawwad said in a statement. The first cinemas is expected to open in March 2018.
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India will host 81 matches across formats from 2019-2023, 30 more than the previous Future Tours Programme. The revised FTP was agreed upon unanimously at the Board’s Special General Body Meeting (SGM) — a move that will see India playing more Tests against Australia, England and South Africa but also addressing captain Virat Kohli’s complaints on player fatigue. A working group, comprising all three office-bearers, will take the final call.
Business schools are struggling hard for placements with only 20 per cent students landing job offers, as per Assocham. The chamber observed that job opportunities for business school (B-school) students are drying on account of factors like demonetisation, lacklustre business sentiment and stalling of new projects. The Assocham Education Council said many parents and students are re-thinking on investing three-four years and several lakhs in a course.
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