daily news 21-3-2018

39 Indians, abducted by IS in Iraq, are dead: Sushma

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj onTuesday informed Rajya Sabha
that the 39 Indians, who had been abducted in Iraq in 2014, are dead.

 SC/STAct being used for blackmail, says top court

Issues guidelines against arbitrary arrests of employees
Anti-atrocities law, which protects Scheduled Castes and ScheduledTribesfrom casteist slurs and discrimination, has become instrument to “blackmail”innocent citizens and public servants,Supreme Court observed in a judgment
Issuing a slew of guidelines to protect public servants and private employeesfrom arbitrary arrests under the Atrocities Act, the court directed that publicservants can only be arrested with the written permission oftheir appointing authority
In the case of private employees, the Senior Superintendent of Police concerned
should allow it......

 More autonomy for JNU, Hyderabad university

HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar announces new scheme for quality instituti
ons in the country
Jawaharlal Nehru University and University of Hyderabad are two Centralinstitutions that will be granted highest autonomy as Category-1 institutionsunder the new scheme of higher autonomy for quality institutions.
Banaras Hindu University,Aligarh Muslim University and the English and Foreign Languages University,Telangana,are in Category-2, which too enjoyshigh autonomy
Announced Minister of Human Resource Development Prakash Javadeka

U.P. says no to new engineering colleges
62% vacant seats in existing institutions

India joins Europe‟s satellite data sharing pool- called Copernicus.

Can exchange earth observation information
Return get to access free data from Europe‟s six Sentinel satellites and thoseof other space agencies that are part of the programme, at their cost.

Centre wants„humane‟AFSPA

Minister, however, says there is no plan to withdraw the Act in Kashmir
Operationally effective and humane

Xi flags nationalism to begin his second term in office