India, World Roundup May 22

Prasad Geeta

India
1.  Kulbhushan Jadhav safe till final ICJ order, hints
envoy :
Even as Pakistani high commissioner Abdul Basit reiterated Sunday that Pakistan's domestic laws will take precedence over ICJ's final
judgement
in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case, he said Islamabad will abide by the court's ruling last week
staying
the Indian national's death sentence. This is effectively the first assurance from Pakistan thatJadhav's life is safe for the time being.
2.  Pak media reports another
Indian held
, Delhi says no info from Islamabad
yet :
 An Indian national has been arrested from the F-8 area of Islamabad for not possessing travel papers, a media report said on Sunday.
3.  UP BJP MP hit me with shoes, alleges PSU GM, writes to Modi :   A day before the arrival of chief ministerYogi Adityanath, BJP's Lok Sabha MP from
Moradabad,Thakur
Sarvesh Singh, allegedly physically assaulted the general
manger
of Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India (ALIMCO) in Ratupura where the CM was to hold a programme on Sunday.
4.  Rajinikanth’s welcome but he has to take call first: Amit
Shah :
  BJP president Amit Shah has said that the party would welcome actor Rajinikanth, but that the superstar has to first decide to enter politics.
5.  Coal scam: Officials made ‘dishonest misrepresentation’ of facts to Manmohan Singh :  The three union coal ministry officials, held guilty in a coal block allocation case, made "dishonest misrepresentation" of facts to the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh while recommending the allocation of a coal block in Madhya Pradesh to Kamal Sponge Steel and Power Limited (KSSPL),
aspecial
CBI court observed.
6.  Kashmir is ours, will find a permanent solution: Rajnath
Singh :
 Union home minister Rajnath Singh said on Sunday that the NDAgovernment would find a permanent solution to the Kashmir issue even as Pakistan was trying to
destabilise
India.
7.  Jharkhand lynching: ‘Cops didn’t act on
time’ :
 A day after the steel city was rocked
with
clashes following the lynching of nine people over the last one week, police are yet to ascertain the source of
rumour
mongering, which they believe led to the violence.
8.  Govt on alert for ‘zero-day’ attack :  The government has sounded an alert for a possible onslaught on its information technology apparatus, warning that loopholes in software and the set-up at large could be exploited by assailants to paralyse the system, where a system's vulnerability is exploited by hackers to gain unauthorised access to infiltrate malware or spyware, is known as a 'zero-day' attack.
9.  Mumbai beat Pune by one run to claim their third IPL
crown :
 Mumbai Indians capped a stunning fightback with their third IPL title.
10. CBI has enough proof to nail
Karti
:
Sources :
 Days after the CBI filed a case against Karti Chidambaram for alleged corruption and criminal conspiracy in facilitating FIPB approval to INX Media when his father P Chidambaram was finance minister, agency sources claimed they had evidence to prove "quid pro quo" against him.
11.  Indian rocket that
US
once ‘grounded’ will put Isro-Nasa satellite in
space :
 US space agency Nasa has joined hands with Isro to co-develop the world's most expensive earth imaging satellite that will cost the two countries over $1.5 billion. The irony is GSLV, which is likely to place this Nasa-
Isro
Synthetic Aperture Radar(NISAR) satellite into orbit in 2021, is the same rocket for whose cryogenic engine the US put sanctions on India.
12.  Naugam operation: 4 terrorists killed, 3 soldiers
martyred :
 Four terrorists were killed and three soldiers lost their lives after the Indian Army launched an operation to foil an infiltration bid in Jammu and Kashmir's Naugam sector on Saturday.
13.  Would have been in jail if Kapil Mishra's allegations were true: Arvind
Kejriwal :
 Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal, who has been at the
centre
of a raging
controversyover
the past few weeks, today dismissed
thecorruption
allegations leveled against him by suspended party member Kapil Mishra.
14.  Arms, ammunition recovered in Kupwara
forest :
 Security forces have recovered arms and ammunition from
forest
area in Handwara area of Kupwara district where a brief encounter took place with terrorists on Sunday night, police said on Monday.


World
1.  Trump visits Jerusalem to seek paths to Israeli-Palestinian
peace :
 US President Donald Trump visits Jerusalem on Monday to seek ways to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace, a goal that has eluded his predecessors but which he says could be easier than "people have thought".
2.  'Greatest Show on Earth' takes its final bow after 146 years :  The clowns, animal acts and acrobats of the storied Ringling
Brosand
Barnum & Bailey Circus took their final bow at an arena outside New York on Sunday, with a space-themed balancing act kicking off the farewell performance of the "Greatest Show on Earth" after nearly 150 years.
3.  Erdogan
vows
fight against enemies as returns to lead
party :
 President Tayyip Erdogan pledged to fight Turkey's enemies at home and abroad on Sunday as he was elected leader of the ruling AK Party, a move enabling him to reassert his grip on the party and its legislative work.
4.  UN Security Council to hold
emergency
meeting on North
Korea :
 The UN Security
Councilwill
hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday in response to North Korea's latest ballistic missile test, council president Uruguay said today.
5.  War on terror not defined by religion, says Donald Trump in Riyadh :  In a significant dialing down of anti-Muslim sentiments he displayed during the election campaign, US President Donald Trump on Sunday assured leaders of the Islamic world that America is not at war with their faith, while casting the fight against terrorist groups as a "battle between good and evil" not defined by religion.
6.  Iran fires mortar shells into
Pakistan :
 Mortar shells were fired into Pakistan's territory from across the Iranian data-border.
7.  Iran foreign minister scorns Trump after
speech
, arms
deal :
 Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday
criticised
US President Donald Trump for sealing an arms deal and other investments worth hundreds of billions of dollars with Saudi Arabia, Tehran's arch-rival in the Middle East.
8.  North Korea calls latest solid-fuel missile test
successful :
  North
Koreafired
a solid-fuel ballistic missile on Sunday that can be harder for outsiders to detect before launch and later said the test was hailed as perfect by leader Kim Jong Un.
9.  
Boy
walks away unhurt after out-of-control SUV smashes into
him :
 In what can only be described as a miraculous escape, a teenage boy walked away unharmed after an out-of-control SUV sent him flying in a shocking hit-and-run incident in Florida, United States.
10.  China stocks pressured by tighter regulation; Hong Kong at
22-month
high :
 China's main stock indexes were little changed on Monday morning as strength in financials and raw materials were offset by weakness in the real estate and brokerage sector, both of which suffered from tighter government regulations.


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