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| Sunday evening brief |
Dec 17 2017 |
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| Good evening! |
| Here’s everything that transpired during the course of the day… |
| China is lavishing vast amounts of aid on a small Pakistani town to win over locals and build a commercial deep-water port. Beijing has built a school, sent doctors and pledged about $500 million in grants for an airport, hospital, college and badly-needed water infrastructure for Gwadar, a dusty town whose harbour juts out into the Arabian Sea, overlooking some of the world’s busiest oil and gas shipping lanes. Pakistan has welcomed the aid with open hands. However, Beijing’s unusual largesse has also fuelled suspicions in the US and India that Gwadar is part of China’s future geostrategic plans to challenge US naval dominance. Read |
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| Ace Indian shuttler PV Sindhu settled for silver at BWF World Superseries Finals in Dubai today. Sindhu missed out on a chance to create history as she went down fighting against Akane Yamaguchi of Japan, who exacted sweet revenge of her defeat to Sindhu in group match as she bounced back from a game down to register an exhausting 15-21, 21-12, 21-19 win in a match that lasted 94 minutes. Had Sindhu won, she would have become the first India player to win World Superseries Finals title. |
| Patidar leader Hardik Patel has said that a group of software engineers was being hired to hack Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs). “Preparations are on to hack 4,000 EVMs in Gujarat with the help of 140 engineers from an Ahmedabad-based company,” Patel alleged on Twitter. He followed his tweet up by claiming that there had been an attempt to hack EVMs in Visnagar, Radhanpur, Vav, and several Patel-dominated and tribal areas. Later in the day, Patel justified his claims about EVM tampering by saying “if a divine creation like the human body can be tampered with, so could an EVM.” |
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| The Madras high court has asked the Centre and the Tamil Nadu government to find out if the rise in sexual violence against women is due to fall in sex ratio or due to ‘sex starvation’ among men. Pointing out that in spite of stringent laws brought in after Nirbhaya incident in 2012, sexual assaults on women continued unabated, Justice Kirubakaran said, adding that the offences had to be analysed and examined from psychological and sociological angles. The judge then suo motu impleaded the central government and the NCW and directed them to file a response to his queries, including on whether alcoholism is one of the main reasons for the spurt in such offences. |
| Terrorists attacked a church today in the Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least eight people and wounding 44 others. The attack on the Bethel Memorial Church in Balochistan capital, which was packed with around 400 worshippers, came just over a week before Christmas. Balochistan home minister Mir Sarfaraz Bugti said that at least two suicide bombers were involved in the attack on church. “One attacker was killed at the gate by police after an intense gunfight while the other wearing suicide vest entered the church and detonated his explosives,” he said. |
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