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The Catch Up: 17 January
This is the Catch Up on 3 Things for the Indian Express and I'm Flora Swain.
It’s the 17th of January and here are the headlines.
An Indian Reserve Battalion jawan was killed in the violence-hit border town of Moreh in Manipur early today. Following this, the Manipur Home Department Commissioner requested the Union Ministry of Home Affairs for helicopters for medical emergencies and to airlift troops and weaponry to the area. In the second killing of a Meitei police officer in Moreh in two-and-a-half months, W Somorjit, attached to Manipur police commandos deployed at an IRB post at the time and the assailants attacked it using grenades, followed by a volley of firing.
The Indian Institute of Management Calcutta has removed its director-in-charge Sahadeb Sarkar following a sexual harassment complaint against him. The institute, in a statement issued last evening, said it took action against Sarkar based on the recommendation of the internal complaints committee and the allegations are being probed. The IIM-C, meanwhile, appointed the next senior-most faculty member, professor Saibal Chattopadhyay, as the director-in-charge with immediate effect.
Beating the Ayodhya consecration by five days, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik will roll out his own temple gambit on Wednesday. The heritage corridor or Parikrama Prakalpa around the Puri Jagannath Temple is a project that the BJD government launched five years ago. The opening ceremony is also set to match the Ayodhya temple in ambition, with the BJD government billing the Rs 800 crore spent on a 75-metre free passage built around the outer walls (the Meghanada Pacheri) of the temple "the biggest infrastructure push involving the 12th-century shrine in 700 years".
A male passenger on a Mumbai-Bengaluru SpiceJet flight was trapped inside the aircraft’s toilet for more than an hour yesterday due to a malfunction in the door lock. The passenger was eventually rescued after the flight landed at Kempegowda International Airport and engineers broke open the door. SpiceJet issued a statement confirming the incident and apologised for the inconvenience caused, saying it would provide a full refund to the passenger.
Apple is expanding its presence in India with the opening of a new 15-floor office in Minsk Square in Bengaluru. The new office’s location is in the vicinity of buildings like the Vidhana Soudha (which houses the Karnataka state legislature), the High Court, Chinnaswamy cricket stadium and Cubbon Park. Apple chose the location with proximity to the Cubbon Park metro station to make the office more accessible for employees.
This was the Catch-Up on the 3 Things by The Indian Express.
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