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Saturday Evening News Brief, October 21

Oct 21, 2017
Saturday evening brief Oct 21 2017
Good evening!
Here’s everything that transpired during the course of the day…
The RBI today clarified that the linking of Aadhaar number to bank accounts is mandatory. The apex bank stated that such rules have statutory force and the banks have to implement them without awaiting further instructions. The government in June had made Aadhaar mandatory for opening bank accounts as well as for any financial transaction of Rs 50,000 and above.
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As many as 383 police personnel have been killed in the line of duty in the last one year. Of these, 76 belonged to Uttar Pradesh Police, 56 to BSF, 49 to CRPF, 42 to J&K police, 23 to Chhattisgarh police, 16 to West Bengal police, 13 to Delhi police and CISF, 11 to ITBP and 12 each to Bihar police and Karnataka police. A majority of them died while dealing with cross-border firing from Pakistan, combating terrorism in J&K as well as Left-wing extremism.
India skipper Virat Kohli today said that the new ICC regulations have made things exciting and professional. “There are a few rules which are very different. The batsman reaching the crease and after that the bat bouncing off being not out. The rule of umpires’ call in DRS (Decision Review System). So there are few rule changes which are quite interesting. There is one about catching as well,” Kohli said.
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A female Pakistani journalist, who went missing while tracing an Indian prisoner, has been found after two years. Zeenat Shahzadi, 25, went missing in Lahore in August 2015 while tracing an Indian prisoner accused of espionage. A freelance reporter, Zeenat had managed to get in touch with Fauzia Ansari, the mother of Hamid Ansari, an Indian national who had gone missing in Pakistan.
Archaeologists have uncovered nearly 400 undocumented mysterious stone ‘gates’ in the Arabian desert. For years, amateur and professional archaeologists have used Google Earth’s satellite imagery to discover mysterious earthworks in Kazakhstan, Roman ruins, a forgotten fortress in Afghanistan and more. They believe that these stone structures were built by nomadic tribes thousands of years ago.
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