| Good morning! The Delimitation Commission, which was set up in March 2020 to redraw assembly and parliamentary constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), finalised its order on Thursday a day before its extended two-month tenure was due to end on Friday. Elections in J&K, which has been without an elected government since June 2018, are expected after the delimitation process is over. Meanwhile, India expressed its strong objections to figures shared by the World Health Organisation (WHO) regarding coronavirus-related deaths in the country. HT brings you a round-up of the most important and interesting stories, so you don't miss your daily dose of news. |
| THE BIG STORY Kashmir share dips in new J&K election map A panel redrawing poll constituencies in Jammu & Kashmir finalised the Union territory's new electoral map on Thursday, concluding the controversial exercise and paving the way for elections in the region for the first time since its special status was scrapped. Read more. |
| STORIES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED Sedition law needed to safeguard nation: A-G Hindu man killed for marrying Muslim girl CAA Rules will be implemented once Pandemic ends, says Shah Collegium picks Gujarat, Gauhati HC judges for Elevation to SC |
| The Big Question What does WHO's new estimate tell us about India's Covid deaths? At least 4.7 million people died in India due to Covid-19 in 2020 and 2021, the World Health Organization said on Thursday, releasing new estimates of the pandemic's true death toll which, it said, came to about 15 million fatalities worldwide, close to three times the official data released by countries in this period. Read more. |
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THE DAILY QUIZ QUESTION The CBSE has excluded several chapters from the syllabi of Classes 10, 11 and 12, including course content on democracy and diversity. Name the peace-keeping Cold War-era movement, pioneered by Nehru, Tito and Nasser, that has also been dropped. |
| FROM THE EDIT PAGE The neta-police nexus must be dismantled Converting our hard-earned democracy into a police state is simply unthinkable, and if the Assam Police is thinking about the same, the same is perverse thinking," Barpeta sessions court judge, justice Aparesh Chakrabarty, said while granting bail to Gujarat Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA), Jignesh Mevani. He criticised the state police for filing a "false FIR" and "abusing the process of the court and the law". It took a courageous judge in a small town to remind the police of their foremost constitutional duty to the rule of law. Read more. |
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| NUMBER THEORY A challenging phase for India's inflation targeting framework On May 4, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India announced an unscheduled hike in the policy rate and increased the deposits banks need to maintain as cash with it -- both measures aimed at reducing liquidity to fight inflation. The decision came a month before the scheduled MPC meeting in the first week of June and was justified on account of significant upside risks to inflation compared to what the MPC saw in its April meeting. What explains such a decision? An HT analysis suggests that the unscheduled monetary tightening might be the first acknowledgment of what is likely the beginning of the most challenging phase in India's six-year-old inflation targeting framework. Here are four charts which explain this argument in detail. Read more. |
| FROM THE FIELD With rising fuel prices, more opt for electric vehicles in Thane With the increasing fuel prices in the country, many are opting for electric vehicles and the demand for the same is at an all-time high in Thane city. In the first three months of this year, 1,283 E-vehicles have been registered in Thane Regional Transport Authority, more than those registered in the whole of last year. Read more. |
| Infographic of the Day Understanding the WHO report  (Click to expand) |
| Photo of the Day Poet from Dhaka |
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| HT THIS DAY: May 6, 1970 Lal carves out India's win  (Click to expand) India today confidently knocked out Australia from the Davis Cup tournament, winning 3-1 in the East Zone final here to avenge their 4-1 defeat in the Challenge Round in 1966. "They were too good," Neale Fraser, Australian non-playing captain, admitted. Australia, 15 times winners of the Davis Cup in the last 20 years, could not win any of the singles matches decided. Their only success was in the doubles. Read more. |
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