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This is the Catch-up on 3 Things for the Indian Express and I am Utsa Sarmin.
It’s the 16th of September and here are the headlines.
A court in Ahmedabad today sentenced Gujarat Congress’s working president and MLA Jignesh Mevani and 18 others to six months simple imprisonment in a 2016 case of rioting. The case was related to a road blockade agitation staged by Mevani and his associates. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate P N Goswami suspended their sentence till October 17 to enable them to file appeals.
Seven months after the Russia-Ukraine war started, many of the nearly 20,000 Indian students who were forced to return home to India, are now making the journey back to their colleges in the war-torn European country. The students, mostly those in the fourth, fifth and sixth year of their courses in Ukrainian medical universities, say they were left with little choice but to head back – given practical difficulties involved in taking a transfer to universities in other countries, and the need for hands-on training for the final-year medical students.
Amid the ongoing CBI probe in connection with the now-scrapped Delhi Excise policy and Enforcement Directorate’s search operations, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today said that the Centre is using the investigating agencies to threaten everyone in the country.
Addressing a press conference, Kejriwal said, “They should arrest Manish Sisodia if he is wrong. I still don’t understand what is the scam in the liquor policy. They talk about different amounts every day… One leader says Rs 1.5 lakh crore scam, another says Rs 8,000 crore scam, the L-G said Rs 144 crore… while CBI in its FIR says Rs 1 crore. Even Delhi’s budget is Rs 70,000 crore, less than some of these amounts. What is the scam?”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit in Samarkand during which they reviewed bilateral relations and discussed ways to deepen cooperation in diverse sectors. Meanwhile, speaking at the SCO summit today, Modi said that Indian economy is expected to grow by 7.5 per cent this year and thus will be the highest among the largest economies in the world. The prime minister also said India is progressing towards becoming a manufacturing hub.
Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said today that India is facing the highest unemployment rate in the last 45 years and it was the duty of the Congress party to strengthen the future of the youth and bring positivity to the minds of youngsters in the country. Gandhi, who has embarked on the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra,’ reached Neendakara in Kollam district today which is the ninth day since he began his foot march on September 7.
In other news, at least nine people, including three minor children, died and two people were injured when an under-construction wall of an Army enclave collapsed, following heavy rain, in the Dilkusha area of Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow late Thursday night. The victims lived in huts outside the enclave and were sleeping when the incident took place.
This was the catch-up on 3 things for the Indian express.
The Catch Up: 16 SeptemberThe headlines this evening from the Indian Express.
TRANSCRIPT
This is the Catch-up on 3 Things for the Indian Express and I am Utsa Sarmin.
It’s the 16th of September and here are the headlines.
A court in Ahmedabad today sentenced Gujarat Congress’s working president and MLA Jignesh Mevani and 18 others to six months simple imprisonment in a 2016 case of rioting. The case was related to a road blockade agitation staged by Mevani and his associates. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate P N Goswami suspended their sentence till October 17 to enable them to file appeals.
Seven months after the Russia-Ukraine war started, many of the nearly 20,000 Indian students who were forced to return home to India, are now making the journey back to their colleges in the war-torn European country. The students, mostly those in the fourth, fifth and sixth year of their courses in Ukrainian medical universities, say they were left with little choice but to head back – given practical difficulties involved in taking a transfer to universities in other countries, and the need for hands-on training for the final-year medical students.
Amid the ongoing CBI probe in connection with the now-scrapped Delhi Excise policy and Enforcement Directorate’s search operations, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today said that the Centre is using the investigating agencies to threaten everyone in the country.
Addressing a press conference, Kejriwal said, “They should arrest Manish Sisodia if he is wrong. I still don’t understand what is the scam in the liquor policy. They talk about different amounts every day… One leader says Rs 1.5 lakh crore scam, another says Rs 8,000 crore scam, the L-G said Rs 144 crore… while CBI in its FIR says Rs 1 crore. Even Delhi’s budget is Rs 70,000 crore, less than some of these amounts. What is the scam?”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit in Samarkand during which they reviewed bilateral relations and discussed ways to deepen cooperation in diverse sectors. Meanwhile, speaking at the SCO summit today, Modi said that Indian economy is expected to grow by 7.5 per cent this year and thus will be the highest among the largest economies in the world. The prime minister also said India is progressing towards becoming a manufacturing hub.
Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said today that India is facing the highest unemployment rate in the last 45 years and it was the duty of the Congress party to strengthen the future of the youth and bring positivity to the minds of youngsters in the country. Gandhi, who has embarked on the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra,’ reached Neendakara in Kollam district today which is the ninth day since he began his foot march on September 7.
In other news, at least nine people, including three minor children, died and two people were injured when an under-construction wall of an Army enclave collapsed, following heavy rain, in the Dilkusha area of Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow late Thursday night. The victims lived in huts outside the enclave and were sleeping when the incident took place.
This was the catch-up on 3 things for the Indian express.
