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1. Rahul Gandhi targets Centre over "shocking attack" on protesters outside RSS office: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Monday targeted the Modi government over the "shocking attack" on students protesting against Hyderabad research scholar Rohith Vemula's suicide outside RSS office in Delhi. He insisted the demonstrators were "brutally" beaten as they were "protesting against the RSS". "Shocking attack on students. Instead of listening to them, now the Modi govt is brutally beating them up for protesting against the RSS!", the Congress leader tweeted.<br>Image Caption: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi with students at University of Hyderabad during a protest over Rohit Vemula's death in Hyderabad on Saturday. (PTI)</br>
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2. Zika virus tied to birth defects is international emergency, WHO says: The World Health Organization on Monday declared the mosquito-borne Zika virus an international public health emergency due to its link to thousands of birth defects in Brazil, as the U.N. agency sought to build a global response to the threat. WHO Director-General Margaret Chan told reporters that coordinated international action was needed to improve detection and expedite work on a vaccine and better diagnostics for the disease, but said curbs on travel or trade were not necessary. Chan, whose agency was assailed as too slow in reacting to West Africa's Ebola epidemic that killed more than 10,000 people in the past two years, cited "first and foremost the big concern about microcephaly," the birth defect that causes babies to be born with abnormally small heads and improperly developed brains. (Image Source: Reuters)
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3. Ted Cruz defeats Donald Trump in Iowa; Clinton, Sanders in tight race: Ted Cruz, a fiery, conservative Texas senator loathed by his own party's leaders, swept to victory in Iowa's Republican caucuses Monday, overcoming billionaire Donald Trump and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. Among Democrats, Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders were deadlocked in a tight race. Cruz's victory was a harsh blow to Trump, the supremely confident real estate mogul who has roiled the Republican field for months with controversial statements about women and minorities. (Image Source: Reuters)
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4. PM Modi's cash in hand only Rs 4,700, total assets over Rs 1 cr: Prime Minister Narendra Modi does not seem to keep much cash in hand even as his total assets have gone up to Rs 1.41 crore — largely due to a residential property that has appreciated by more than 25 times since purchase over 13 years ago. According to the latest details of his assets disclosed by the Prime Minister's Office, Modi had total 'cash in hand' of just Rs 4,700 at the end of the last fiscal, down from Rs 38,700 disclosed mid-fiscal as on August 18, 2014. However, the total value of Modi's movable and immovable assets during this period has grown from Rs 1,26,12,288 crore to Rs 1,41,14,893 crore as on March 31, 2015. (Image Source: PTI)
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5. Sex determination test be made compulsory to track mothers': Union minister Maneka Gandhi on Monday suggested said that sex determination test should be made compulsory to track women pregnant with a girl child as a measure to check female foeticide. "In my personal view, the woman should be compulsorily told that whether it is a boy or girl child whom she is going to give birth. "It should be registered to be able to check whether they have given the births or not," the minister for Women and Child Development said. (Image Source: PTI)
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6. Dalit student suicide: Classes resume in Hyderabad University: Classes resumed on Monday in Hyderabad Central University, two weeks after the suicide of Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula and subsequent agitation by the varsity students. "Classes are going on. Administration is also working," a JAC spokesperson Dickens told PTI. "We have set a deadline of ten days. We will continue our agitation in the form of relay hunger strike and organising seminars and rallies peacefully. People from outside also have come to express solidarity to our agitation. (VC) Professor Appa Rao should go. There is no change in that demand," he said.<br>Image Caption: Students shout slogans during a protest against the death of Rohith Vemula in Hyderabad (AP)</br>
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7. British woman who took baby to join ISIS jailed for 6 years: A UK mother found guilty of taking her 14-month-old baby to war-torn Syria to join Islamic State (ISIS) was on Monday sentenced to six years in prison, becoming the first British woman to be convicted after returning home. Tareena Shakil, 26, told her family she was leaving for a holiday in Turkey in October 2014 but instead travelled to the city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of ISIS in northern Syria, Birmingham Crown Court was told this week. Sentencing her, Justice Melbourne Inman said the woman had shown no remorse. (Image Source: Reuters)
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8. PDP, BJP violating people's mandate by not forming govt: Congress: Congress on Monday accused PDP and BJP of "violating" the mandate of the people by not forming government in Jammu and Kashmir and expressed the hope that better sense would prevail on them. "I charge PDP and BJP with ignoring, belying, violating fundamental democratic mandate from people in the sensitive border state. They have been elected to govern and even a minute's delay is not good," party spokesman Abhishek Singhvi told reporters. (Image Source: PTI)
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9. Airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan destroy IS radio station: American and Afghan officials say airstrikes on a remote eastern region of Afghanistan have destroyed a radio station operated by the Islamic State group. An official with the US military said on Monday the strike had destroyed "Voice of the Caliphate" radio operated by IS near the border with Pakistan. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to media on the subject. (Image Source: Reuters)
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10. No BJP govt in Arunachal; we are still in Congress: rebel MLAs: Dissident Congress MLAs in Arunachal Pradesh on Monday demanded the removal of deposed Chief Minister Nabam Tuki from leadership of the CLP so that the party can continue to have a government and ruled out supporting a BJP-led coalition. The 21 dissident MLAs said they continue to be in Congress and have nothing against party President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi but against the style and functioning of Tuki. (Image Source: PTI)
