Morning Digest – March 13, 2021

Members of the Quadrilateral Framework or ‘Quad’ will be “closer than ever”, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing the group’s first leadership summit on Friday.

India and China will hold another round of “earliest” talks between military commanders, which will continue the displacement process in areas of friction along the Line of Actual Control (LAC).

The city of Minneapolis on Friday agreed to pay $ 27 million from George Floyd’s family to settle a civil lawsuit in the case of the death of a black man in police custody, even in the murder trial of a former officer Selection of the jury also continued.

“LDF for Sure” is the faith campaign slogan of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) -led ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) in the Kerala Assembly elections on 6 April.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was discharged from the SSKM Hospital on Friday, where she was admitted in Nandigram on Wednesday after suffering a leg injury. Ms Banerjee came out of the Woodburn ward on a wheelchair and took her to her residence in Kalighat.

The recent political churn in Puducherry, altering the positions of the Congress and the All India NR Congress, has also led to opposite fortunes for the two Dravidian parties – the AIADMK and the DMK.

After the new census data are available, the Center may consider amending the number of subsidized foodgrains under the National Food Security Act, Food Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey said on Friday.

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has written to the Chief Secretaries of Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh to “take appropriate action as per law to check illegal floods from Myanmar in India”.

The name Lu Otens may not ring a bell for many people. It should be, especially if your ears are bent in the muscles. He revolutionized music worldwide with his invention of compact audio cassettes. He died on 6 March at the age of 94 in his native Holland.

After a disappointing time in the Test ended, England demonstrated that white ball cricket is a different story altogether. The top-ranked T20 nation in the world won India by eight wickets in the first match of the five-match series here on Friday.