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[00:00:00] Hello, this is your Daily Dose of Newsroom, Onmanorama.
[00:00:14] I am your host Meenu and these are the major news stories of Friday, April 5th, 2024.
[00:00:23] Dropping references to the demolition of Babri muster in Ayodhya, the killing of Muslims and
[00:00:28] Gujarat riots and Hindutva and tweaking the reference to Manipur's merger with India are
[00:00:33] among the latest set of revisions made public by the NCRT in its textbooks.
[00:00:41] The Supreme Court granted bail to academic activist Shama Khan Desen, who was arrested
[00:00:46] in June 2018 in connection with the Elkar Parishat Maoist Lynx case.
[00:00:54] Congress has promised rights to upturn the ship a legal guarantee for MSP and passing
[00:00:59] a constitutional amendment to trace the 50% care upon reservations for SCs, STs and OBCs
[00:01:05] in its electoral manifesto.
[00:01:10] American President Joe Biden threatened on Thursday to condition support for Israel's offensive
[00:01:15] in Gaza on it taking concrete steps to protect aid workers and civilians seeking
[00:01:20] for the first time to leverage USAID to influence Israeli military behavior.
[00:01:28] The Kala High Court urged the Union government to notify an immediate CBI probe into the
[00:01:33] death of Siddharthen, a second-year student at the Veterinary and Animal Sciences University
[00:01:37] in Wynard.
[00:01:38] Let's get into the details.
[00:01:44] Dropping references to the demolition of Babri muster in Ayodhya, the killing
[00:01:47] of Muslims and Gujarat riots in Hindutva and tweaking reference to Manipur's merger
[00:01:52] with India among the latest set of revisions made public by the National Council of Educational
[00:01:57] Research and Training in its textbooks.
[00:02:01] While NCRT did not comment on the topics being dropped, officials said the tweaks
[00:02:05] are part of the routine adaptation and are not linked to the development of new
[00:02:09] books as per the new curriculum framework.
[00:02:12] The changes have been made in the political science textbooks of Class XI and XII among
[00:02:17] others.
[00:02:18] According to a document detailing the changes prepared by the Curriculum Drafting Committee
[00:02:23] of the NCRT, the references to the Ram Jain Bhoomi movement have been tweaked as per
[00:02:28] the latest development in politics.
[00:02:34] The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to academic activist Shomakandhi Sen, who was
[00:02:38] arrested in June 2018 in connection with the Elgar Pelshitmavoist's lynx case.
[00:02:45] A bench of justices Anirudha Bose and Augustine George Masik directed that she be released on
[00:02:51] bail on such conditions as the special court may consider fit and proper.
[00:02:55] It said the conditions shall include that Sen shall not leave the state of Maharashtra
[00:03:01] without the permission of the special court.
[00:03:04] She shall use only one mobile phone number during the bail period and share it with
[00:03:09] the investigating officer.
[00:03:10] The right to uprend the ship, a legal guarantee for MSP and passing a constitutional amendment
[00:03:19] to raise the 50% cap on reservations for ACs, ASTs and OBCs are among the promises
[00:03:25] made by the Congress in its manifesto for the loxobar polls released on Friday.
[00:03:31] The manifesto, titled Naibatra, was released at the AACC headquarters in the presence
[00:03:36] of Congress President Malikarjun Kharge and former party chiefs Sonia Gandhi and Rakhul
[00:03:41] Gandhi.
[00:03:43] It focused on five pillars of justice and 25 guarantees under them.
[00:03:48] The opposition party promised to fill nearly 30 lakh vacancies in sanctioned polls at
[00:03:53] various levels in the central government.
[00:03:59] President Joe Biden threatened on Thursday to condition support for Israel's offensive
[00:04:03] in Gaza on it taking concrete steps to protect aid workers and civilians seeking for the first
[00:04:09] time to leverage USA to influence Israeli military behavior.
[00:04:15] Biden's warning relied in a call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday followed
[00:04:20] a deadly Israeli attack on world-central kitchen aid workers that spurred new calls
[00:04:26] from Biden's fellow Democrats to place conditions on USA to Israel.
[00:04:31] The attack was a mistake.
[00:04:34] Islamist fighters of the Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023,
[00:04:41] killing 1,200 people and seizing 253 hostages according to Israeli tallies.
[00:04:49] Israel retaliated by embossing a total siege on Gaza, then launching an air and ground
[00:04:54] assault that has killed more than 33,000 Palestinians, say health authorities in Hamas-ruled
[00:05:00] Gaza.
[00:05:03] The Kerala High Court here on Friday urged the Union government to notify CBPROB in the
[00:05:08] Siddharthen death case immediately.
[00:05:12] In the interim order, Justice Benjikourian Thomas asked the sender to issue the notification
[00:05:16] under Section 5 of the Daily Special Police Establishment Act while considering the
[00:05:22] petition of the deceased Father Jayaprakash.
[00:05:25] Siddharthen is a second-year student at the Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences
[00:05:28] University in Pukot, Vineyard, was found dead on February 18, allegedly after
[00:05:34] enduring severe ragging and morphed trials.
[00:05:37] The deceased student's father approached the High Court on Thursday seeking intervention
[00:05:42] to initiate a CBPROB into his son's death days after declaring a protest against the
[00:05:47] Kerala government.
[00:05:49] The petitioner realized that the government deliberately delayed the CBPROB to facilitate
[00:05:54] bail for the accused.
[00:05:58] That brings us to the end of this episode.
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