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| Monday morning brief |
Nov 20 2017 |
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| Congress & PAAS’s agreement on quota & seat sharing hit a last-minute hurdle last night after the main opposition party announced its first list of 77 candidates. PAAS and Congress workers clashed near the office of Praful Togadia, Congress candidate from Patel-dominated Varchcha Road seat in Surat. “Congress announced tickets to PAAS members without consulting our core committee. We will register a strong protest by attacking Congress offices,” said Dinesh Bambhania, co-convener of PAAS, who was nominated as chief negotiator of quota talks by Hardik Patel. Read |
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| Paving the way for India to get instant access to details on Indians with Swiss accounts, a key parliamentary panel in Switzerland has approved an automatic information exchange pact between the two countries. The pact will help provide a continuous access to details (account number, name, address, date of birth, tax identification number, interest, etc.) about alleged black money hoarders in Swiss banks. The exchange will work like this – If an Indian has a bank account in Switzerland, the bank concerned will disclose the financial account data to authorities there; the Swiss authority will forward the information to its peer in India who can then examine the person’s details. |
| To counter OBOR, India is pushing its own connectivity measures with most of its international partners, but with rules very different from China. A cursory glance at joint statements between India and its international partners shows that the countries involved “acknowledged the importance of connectivity in today’s globalised world. They underlined that connectivity initiatives must be based on universally recognised international norms, good governance, rule of law, openness, transparency and equality – the contours of the Indian version of connectivity – as compared to China’s OBOR. |
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| The burden of anxiety disorders is growing across India, especially in the literate and urbanized states, a Lancet study has revealed. While anxiety disorders were in the 40th place in 1990 as a contributor to disability adjusted life years (DALYS) – the World Health Organization’s special scale to measure loss of ‘healthy’ years – it climbed to the 26th place in 2016. In fact, the study listed it among the top 10 causes for morbidity across India in 2016. Maharashtra, Delhi, Andhra, Karnataka and Kerala are among 10 states that have more problems due to anxiety disorders, said the study. |
| A powerful magnitude 7 undersea earthquake struck east of New Caledonia’s Loyalty Islands in the South Pacific today, sending small tsunamis towards New Caledonia and neighbouring Vanuatu. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii issued a tsunami warning for coastlines within 300 kms (186 mile) of the epicentre, but later said the danger had largely passed. Vanuatu’s National Disaster Management Office advised people in southern provinces to evacuate coastal areas for higher ground. |
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