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| Here’s everything that transpired during the course of the day… |
| Journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh was shot dead outside her home in Bengaluru. Lankesh, 55, editor of Kannada tabloid ‘Gauri Lankesh Patrike’, had parked her car outside the gate of her residence around 8pm last night and was walking to the main entrance when three men on a motorcycle fired at least seven rounds. As she ran to the door, three bullets hit Lankesh in the head, neck and chest, while four struck the front wall of the house. Lankesh died instantly, police said. |
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| Trump administration rescinded DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Killing DACA, a program birthed by President Obama, was a Trump <a href=”http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/end-of-american-dream-for-800000-young-immigrants-as-trump-kills-daca/articleshow/60381836.cms”>campaign pledge</a>. The lives of 8,00,000 young immigrants who entered the United States as minors — including an estimated 6,000 Indians — was thrown into turmoil as DACA allowed them a renewable two-year permit to study and work in America. Meanwhile, several US states and immigrant advocacy groups vowed to fight President Donald Trump's decision to end DACA. |
| Centre said it has started identifying Rohingya refugees for deportation. Minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju said the government has set up a task force to identify Rohingyas in different states where they have taken refuge so that the process of deporting them can begin. Rohingyas have approached the Supreme Court against the Centre’s deportation plan, while Amnesty International weighed in for them. Meanwhile, PM Modi began his first bilateral visit to Myanmar yesterday where he is likely to discuss the crisis. |
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| India issued a demarche to Pakistan over terror attack in Kashmir last month. The ministry of external affairs summoned and lodged a strong protest with Pakistan’s acting high commissioner Haider Shah over the infiltration by JeM terrorists who staged a terror attack on August 26, killing eight security personnel. The MEA said Pakistan was asked to investigate the incident and bring to justice the individuals and entities responsible for orchestrating the heinous attack. |
| US declared emergencies in Florida, Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands for Hurricane Irma. The dangerous Category 5 storm is wielding the most powerful winds ever recorded for a storm in the Atlantic Ocean. It is on a path that could take it toward Florida over the weekend. Irma’s size and strength put the entire state on notice yesterday. Residents and visitors prepared to leave in anticipation of catastrophic winds and floods. The last major storm to hit Florida was 2005’s Wilma which killed five people. |
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