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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 20 August 2022

Amazon is about to release its billion-dollar mouthful The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. It turns out that the fight for the rights to J.R.R. Tolkein's magnum opus has been a twisting journey of its own fantastical proportions.

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India at 75, and what might have been

Last Tuesday, on the 75th anniversary of Indian independence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to turn India into a developed country within the next 25 years. If all goes well, that could actually come to pass, but it would have to go very well indeed.

Bangkok Post

Control, alter: On BJP top brass rejig

The Bharatiya Janata Party seeks a balance between a central command and regional leadership

The Hindu

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Modi govt. is the biggest freebie giver for political leverage: Amit Mitra

Even Central schemes could be termed freebies, says economist

The Hindu

‘Sisodia’s turn because he was hailed by NYT’: AAP protests as CBI raids Delhi deputy CM

A white MG Hector electric car, fully charged for Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia’s schedule, stood in the driveway of his official residence at Mathura Road in the capital on Friday. The AAP leader’s plan, after all, had been snipped as a CBI team swooped on the house around…

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Doesn’t take much effort to form government but hard work needed to build country: PM Modi

PM Modi said to achieve the target of providing tapped water to every household in the country, the government needs to work round the clock.

The Hindu

Nitish as Opposition's prime ministerial face an option if other parties want: JD(U) president

He said all Opposition parties should sit together to decide on the leadership to take on the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP in the next Lok Sabha polls.

The Hindu

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Smart meters scam pits Trinamool against NPP in Meghalaya

Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong said officials were studying an inquiry report after former Chief Minister Mukul Sangma wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking a probe by Central agencies

The Hindu

Jal Jeevan Mission | Seven crore rural families given piped water connection in three years: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was addressing a programme organised by the Goa government to mark 100% piped water supply coverage in rural households of the State.

The Hindu

Uproar in Kashmir as India allows voting rights to non-locals

Any Indian citizen living temporarily in the disputed Muslim-majority federal territory can be enlisted as a voter.

Al Jazeera

Telangana: ₹3.67 lakh crore loans disbursed to hospitality sector, says Kishan Reddy

The minister said the Modi government has been taking immediate action to restore and reactivate the tourism sector while protecting jobs and businesses

The Hindu

Muslim woman raped by Hindu mob shocked by release of 11 jailed men

Gujarat frees men serving life sentences for rape, and for murder of three-year-old daughter and other relatives

The Guardian - UK

Why no CM is in BJP’s new Parliamentary Board

NEW DELHI: BJP president JP Nadda reconstituted the party’s highest decision-making body Parliamentary Board and the Central Election Committee (CEC) on Wednesday. While the exclusion of Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari and Madhya Pradesh chief minister (CM) Shivraj Singh Chouhan and non-inclusion of Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath caught most…

The Times of India

Shipping Minister Sarbananda Sonowal leaves for Iran; to assess progress of Chabahar port

Located in the Sistan-Balochistan province on the energy-rich Iran's southern coast, the Chabahar port is being developed by India, Iran and Afghanistan to boost trade ties.

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Al Jazeera

Bilkis Bano condemns release of her convicted rapists in India

‘Give me back my right to live without fear and in peace,’ says Bano after BJP-ruled Gujarat state releases 11 convicts.

Bangkok Post

Indian gang-rape victim 'numb' after attackers freed

NEW DELHI: A Muslim woman who was gang-raped as 14 people were murdered during one of post-independence India’s worst religious riots has said she is “numb” after her attackers were released early from prison.

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Release of men jailed in gang rape stirs protests in India

Dozens of women protested against the release of the men in the capital, New Delhi on Thursday.

The Independent UK

Indian woman condemns release of her convicted rapists

A Muslim woman who was gang raped while pregnant during India’s devastating 2002 religious riots has appealed to the government to rescind its decision to free 11 men who had been jailed for life for committing the crime, after they were released on suspended sentences

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Tamil Nadu finance minister explains why he won’t listen to Modi on ‘freebies’

Slamming the Narendra Modi government for its newly articulated position on welfare schemes, Tamil Nadu’s finance minister, Palanivel Thiagarajan, asked why state governments should listen to the union government when it had neither constitutional authority nor stellar economic track record.

The Hindu

External Affairs Ministry spent ₹38 lakh on Donald Trump's 36-hour state visit in 2020, reveals RTI

Donald Trump had visited Ahmedabad, Agra, and New Delhi on February 24-25, 2020

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5G Spectrum: Centre issues spectrum allocation letters to telecom operators, asks them to prepare for launch

"5G Spectrum assignment letter issued. Requesting TSPs to prepare for 5G launch," Union Minister for Communications, Electronics and Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw kooed.

The Guardian - UK

After Independence Day, how can India get rid of 200m flags?

Narendra Modi urged his people to fly the national flag but strict rules govern its disposal and offenders can go to jail

The Times of India

Bilkis case: Women will not feel safe by PM Narendra Modi's empty words on empowerment, says Congress MP Amee Yagnik

AHMEDABAD: Women will not feel safe by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "empty words" on their empowerment, senior Congress leader Amee Yagnik said on Wednesday targetting the Gujarat government over the premature release of 11 life-term convicts in the 2002 Bilkis Bano case.

The Hindu

Nadda drops Gadkari, brings in Yeddy in major organisational rejig in BJP

The reorganisation is significant more for the exclusions than inclusions

The Hindu

Stalin calls on President, Vice-President; to discuss NEET, NEP with PM Modi

The Chief Minister says he had a satisfactory meeting with the President

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