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Feb 20, 2015

News Bits - 20 Feb 2015

  1. The denial of visa to Peoples Democratic Party spokesperson Naeem Akhtar is in line with a toughening of Pakistan’s position over the past year on Jammu and Kashmir, especially after the cancellation of Foreign Secretary-level talks by India over High Commissioner Abdul Basit’s discussions with Hurriyat leaders.
  2. The outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist) has called a ‘Dandakaranya Bandh’ for Friday in protest against the Polavaram dam project and the “all-out war” by the Government of India to “flush out Maoists from Bastar.”
  3. Virtually rebutting the criticism by leading banker Deepak Parekh, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday said the government was being criticised for being ‘too fast’.
  4. Black money issue getting low priority: Swamy
  5. Modi to visit Sri Lanka next month, PM and Sirisena likely to discuss Indian investment in infrastructure.
  6. Sri Lanka plans to sign n-pact with Pakistan.
  7. Strategic Forces Command personnel test-fired the nuclear-weapons-capable Prithvi-II missile from Chandipur in Balasore district of Odisha on Thursday for a range of 250 km as against its full strike range of 350 km.
  8. Academic governance vulnerable to politics:Amartya Sen , Says no for second term as Nalanda varsity Chancellor.
  9. Pak. seeks U.S. military assistance against militants in North Waziristan.

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