January 15, 2016
Brief Scorecard: Australia 3 for 309 (Bailey 76*, Marsh 71, Finch 71) beat India 8 for 308 (Rohit 124, Rahane 89, Kohli 59) by 7 wickets

Aaron Finch and Shaun Marsh contributed 71 each, Australia v India, 2nd ODI, Brisbane, January 15, 2016 ©Getty Images
January 13, 2016
“My name is Raghuram Rajan and I do what I do.”

Jaish-e-Mohammad and its phenomenal rise: It’s bad news for India, Kashmir and Pakistan
January 13, 2016
Pakistan did it. Or at least it seems like they did. Almost a week after Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Vikas Swarup said that India will wait till Pakistan takes action against the perpetrators of the Pathankot attack, several Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorists were arrested and their offices sealed as part of a crackdown following the terror attack on Pathankot Air Force Station earlier this month.
January 13, 2016

Summary
President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address came up short of the facts on several topics:
January 13, 2016
BALESWAR, ODISHA – The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought Action Taken Report (ATR) from the Chief Secretary over starvation death cases continuing in Odisha.

Activist lawyer Radhakanta Tripathy moved the apex rights panel pointing out the negligence of the State Government in handling the situation.
January 12, 2016
Pakistani military officers were behind an attack on the Indian consulate in Mazar-e-Sharif last week, a top Afghan police official said on Tuesday.

One Afghan policeman was killed and nine others, including three civilians, were wounded in the attack on January 4 that coincided with an assault by militants on an Indian airbase in Pathankot.
January 12, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Lamenting the nation's persistently deep divides, President Barack Obama will declare Tuesday night that opportunity and security for American families "will only happen if we fix our politics."

January 12, 2016
TIRUCHENDUR, TAMIL NADU – Over 100 whales washed ashore along the 15km stretch of coast near Tiruchendur in Tamil Nadu today. Over 45 of the short-finned pilot whales have died. Many have been saved by local fishermen.

Locals said that many more whales would have died but fishermen in the area ensured that they kept putting them back into the sea.
January 12, 2016
New Delhi: Glaring lapses have come to the fore in the probe in the Pathankot Air Force base terror attack. On the one hand there was almost no effective security at the IAF base, said sources, adding that illegal entry was being allowed inside Airbase for as little as Rs 50.

January 12, 2016
An Italy senator said on Tuesday that Massimiliano Latorre, one of the two Italian marines accused of killing two Kerala fishermen in 2012, will not return to India after being allowed to go home temporarily for medical treatment. Latorre’s deadline to return to India expires on Friday.

















































































































