World 🌎| US urges India to ease restrictions in Kashmir
- In comments mailed to the Hindu, a US State Dept Spokesperson said: ‘We urge authorities to respect human rights and restore access to services such as Internet and mobile networks’
Hindu: http://bit.ly/2MW5JI0
#Do read the comments on the article
National 🇮🇳| Chidambaram sent to Tihar Jail for 2 weeks by Delhi HC
- This follows a 15 day CBI custody in 5 spells
Hindu: http://bit.ly/30Z6bJ2
Elections only way to choose Congress President: Tharoor
- Tharoor made the comments just before his book launch ‘The Hindu Way’
Hindu: http://bit.ly/31atQWM
Gurgaon’s Rapid Metro likely to shut down due to financial crisis
- The metro was constructed and run by Il&FS
- IL&FS has written to the Haryana govt that they cannot run the service beyond 9th Sept
- This was India’s first fully privately financed metro in India
Livemint: http://bit.ly/310ScCy
Economy & Business 💰|International markets jump as China, US agree to trade talks
- The exact timing of talks isn’t clear yet (expected in Oct)
- However US markets jumped 1.75% (NASDAQ) and 1.3% (S&P500)
- Many Asian and European shares also hit one month highs
Reuters: https://reut.rs/2Loti9i
Tech 📱| Amazon set for food delivery launch in India, charges restaurants low commissions
- Amazon is set to acquire FoodPanda and launch services in Bangalore starting Oct
- Restaurants are being signed up at low commissions of 5-6% (Swiggy, Zomato charge 20% +)
Livemint: http://bit.ly/2MWdIoH
Milkbasket set to raise $50mn
- The Series C round is likely to close in 2 month
- Milkbasket started delivering Milk and now offers all grocery items, including a regular subscription service
Techcrunch: https://tcrn.ch/2N0jd5t
🗣Interesting: Delhi airport to begin facial recognition based entry at T3 from Friday
- The trial will be done for Vistara passengers
🗣Opinion: How this General saw Kashmir 50 yrs ago – No signs of fundamentalism, Army had people’s trust
- A nice article by Lt Gen H S Panag
- ‘We in the rest of the country are only compounding the problem by the linking the fate of an entire region with a couple of hundred terrorists’
Print: http://bit.ly/31938y9
