Your Morning Briefing for 26 August 2020 ► Pulwama chargesheet: WhatsApp logs, voice of Jaish chief kin mark trail in Pakistan, says NIA | India News,The Indian Express

Pulwama chargesheet: WhatsApp logs, voice of Jaish chief kin mark trail in Pakistan, says NIA | India News,The Indian Express

Good morning readers,  We are covering the Pulwama chargesheet, what the RBI said on economic recovery, and blatant violations at a pilgrimage project.  Big Story More than a year after a suicide bomber killed 40 CRPF personnel in Pulwama, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a 13,800-page chargesheet, with a mountain of evidence pointing at Pakistan-based terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Mohammad's hand. Pieces of evidence include photographs of “every step” of the attack, from planning to execution. From The Front Page The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) indicated that the economic recovery will be slow and painful as the “shock to consumption is severe” and the “poorest have been hit the hardest”. It has suggested “targeted public investment” funded by asset monetisation and privatisation of major ports as a viable way to revive the economy. As the death toll in the Raigad building collapse continues to rise, a four-year-old boy pulled out from the debris after almost 19 hours gave hope to the rescuers that there could be more survivors. However, his mother and two sisters weren’t lucky. The Supreme Court bench hearing arguments to decide on the quantum of sentence for Advocate Prashant Bhushan said criticism is welcome, but one “should not attribute motives to judges” since they cannot go to the press to defend themselves and “can only speak through our judgments”.  A Supreme Court-appointed committee sought strict action against a division of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways overseeing the project to connect major pilgrimage sites in Uttarakhand. The committee chairperson said laws were violated "as if the Rule of Law does not exist" by causing “incalculable and long-term damage to the Himalayan ecology”.

Mohamed Bangi, 4, was pulled out from the rubble 19 hours after a building collapsed in Raigad. (Narendra Vaskar)

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Until tomorrow,

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