Daily Briefing: India, China agree on disengagement along LAC; patient care at R G Kar hospital takes a hit

With that, let’s determination connected to today’s edition:

• Why Naidu, Stalin are talking of larger families
• Maharashtra canvass presumption by Neerja Chowdhury
• Rajinder Singh acceptable to marque his planetary hockey debut

🚨Big Story

More than 4 years aft the subject standoff sent bilateral ties betwixt India and China south, the 2 countries person agreed connected the disengagement and patrolling arrangements on the Line of Actual Control (LAC).

Stage set: The announcement connected the agreement was made Monday by Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri successful New Delhi, up of the gathering betwixt Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping connected the sidelines of the two-day BRICS Summit starting Tuesday (Oct 22) successful Kazan.

“We tin accidental that the disengagement process with China has been completed…,” External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar besides said that the statement connected patrolling takes the concern backmost to wherever it was successful 2020 earlier the issues roseate pursuing Chinese incursions successful the area.

Friction points: About 50,000 to 60,000 troops are stationed connected some sides of the borderline successful eastbound Ladakh. In enactment with the agreement, patrolling rights successful Depsang Plains and Demchok are expected to beryllium restored. Sources besides told the Express that the concern astatine the different friction points — successful Galwan Valley and Pangong Tso — wherever disengagement of troops was achieved 2 years agone with the instauration of buffer zones would stay the same.

The logistics, arsenic per sources:

• Patrolling volition beryllium carried retired astatine a frequence of doubly a month
• While the mean spot of a patrol is astir 13 to 18, astatine slightest 14-15 troops volition beryllium determination successful a patrol to avert immoderate clash.
• Any clash of day and clip volition beryllium avoided with an speech of patrol programmes of some sides.
• Overall deployment of troops on the LAC volition besides beryllium thinned down. This was, successful immoderate case, portion of the Army’s wintertime program successful Ladakh.

⚡Only successful Express

Close to call: With the Maharashtra Assembly predetermination day inching closer, Neerja Chowdhury makes her point(s) connected wherefore the canvass script successful Maharashtra is “unclear, uncertain, and excessively adjacent to call.” Also, she decodes the canvass strategy and however it is poised betwixt the Haryana, Maratha and Sharad Pawar factors.

🎧 While connected canvass talk, today’s occurrence of the 3 Things Podcast has a speedy update connected Shrikant Pangarkar, an accused successful the execution of writer Gauri Lankesh, who was re-inducted into CM Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena and besides appointed arsenic the canvass run in-charge for the Jalna Assembly spot under. Following the backlash, the assignment has present been declared arsenic “null and void”.

In our Opinion conception today, Yogendra Yadav argues for amended authorities for Muslims successful modern India. He writes: “While each different societal radical tin take to ballot connected bijali, sadak, pani oregon connected padhai, dawai, kamai and what person you, Muslims are condemned to ballot for survival, to flight lynching, bulldozers and riots. The enactment they cannot ballot for treats them with antipathy and the enactment they cannot but ballot for treats them with indifference, if not contempt.”

📰From the Front Page

As protests successful Kolkata rape and execution lawsuit continue, diligent attraction astatine the R G Kar hospital, the epicentre of the movement, has taken a large hit. Over the past 3 months, services person been severely paralysed, with diligent footfall down by fractional and large surgeries down 91%, according to diligent information accessed by The Indian Express.

Khar Gymkhana, 1 of Mumbai’s oldest clubs, cancelled the membership of Indian women cricket team’s starring batter Jemimah Rodrigues. This comes aft immoderate members objected to her begetter Ivan utilizing the nine premises for “religious activities” and alleged that events were organised to “convert” the “vulnerable”.

📌Must Read

‘Why not 16?’: Just days aft Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu advised couples to person much children, Tamil Nadu CM M K Stalin joined his reign, renewing the statement implicit delimitation. In his code astatine a wide wedding ceremony, Stalin, expressing his concerns implicit a imaginable simplification of South India’s stock successful parliamentary seats owed to little colonisation maturation rates, joked: “Why not purpose for 16 children?”

‘India Aging’: According to Population Projection data, arsenic India’s colonisation is projected to property with each passing year, the proportionality (percentage) of radical successful the 60+ property bracket volition emergence crossed the committee — adjacent though the summation successful Northern states volition beryllium smaller than successful the South. Why is an aging population, and a comparatively smaller population, a concern? What is the mode forward? We explain.

Cracking down: As a spate of weaponry hoaxes implicit the past week sent airlines, airports, and information agencies into a tizzy, the authorities has planned to instrumentality legislative action and marque the punishments harsher to deter pranksters from posting specified threats. One specified measurement would alteration inclusion of those down these threats to the no-fly list, banning them from flying connected Indian carriers’ flights.

⏳And Finally…

‘Sardar’s clone’: Knocking connected the doors of the nationalist hockey team, Rajinder Singh, the 21-year-old midfielder fetched a precocious bid astatine Hockey India League auction arsenic portion of Hyderabad Toofans. Singh belongs to the aforesaid colony arsenic Sardar Singh, plays successful the aforesaid presumption arsenic the legendary midfielder and is mentored by the erstwhile India captain. Mihir Vasavda talks astir the large coincidences betwixt Sardar and Rajinder here.

That’s each for today.

Until tomorrow
Vibha B Madhava and Ariba

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