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The Catch Up: 10 January
This is the Catch Up on 3 Things for the Indian Express and I'm Flora Swain.
It’s the 10th of January and here are the headlines.
While inaugurating the 10th edition of the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit in Gandhinagar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the Central government is working towards making the country a developed nation in the next 25 years. He said, quote, "We have the goal of making it a developed country by the time it celebrates 100 years of independence. Therefore, these 25 years is India’s Amrit Kaal." Unquote. Vibrant Gujarat is a biennial summit organised by the Gujarat government with a focus on bringing investment from other states and countries.
The police questioning of Suchana Seth, a Bengaluru-based start-up CEO who allegedly murdered her four-year-old son at a Goa hotel in Goa, and the child’s post-mortem has revealed that the boy was "smothered". A Karnataka government doctor who conducted the post-mortem, said the body did not show signs of rigor mortis – stiffening of the limbs of the corpse caused by chemical changes in the muscles. This indicated that the alleged murder took place at least 36 hours earlier.
While Republic Day preparations are on full swing at the Kartavya Path in New Delhi, several Opposition-ruled states and the Central government have been engaged in a war of words over their tableaus being rejected. While Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has called the Centre’s move as an insult towards Kannadigas, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann said that the Central government was suffering from an anti-Punjab syndrome". The Centre, however, has stuck to its decision, issuing clarifications regarding the disqualifications.
A senior police official in Dahod has said they have not yet received any information about the surrender of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gangrape case after the Supreme Court quashed the Gujarat government’s decision to grant them remission. A police force remains deployed in the area where the convicts are living in order to maintain peace. He also said the convicts are "not incommunicado" and some of them are visiting relatives.
Flagging concerns regarding the "influence" that social media platforms can have on democratic processes, Union Minister of Communications, IT and Railways, Ashwini Vaishnaw, said that while India currently has a regulatory framework that can deal with the issue to an extent, a "much more comprehensive legal structure" was needed.Speaking at The Indian Express Idea Exchange event, he also emphasised that there is a need for these platforms to be subjected to increased accountability.
This was the Catch-Up on the 3 Things by The Indian Express.
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