Good morning,
We are covering the changes to the defence acquisition policy, the police action against a channel that aired a sting on members of B S Yediyurappa’s family, the emergence of startups using AI for instant quality check of farm produce.
Big Story
The government has done away with the offset clause in three types of contracts in its new defence acquisition policy. This would likely bring down the costs in defence contracts as foreign vendors reportedly add around 10 per cent to balance offset costs.
From The Front Page
The Congress leadership asked four states ruled by the party to explore ways to bypass the new farm laws. While a state can make changes to a central legislation on a subject in the concurrent list, it is unlikely President Ram Nath Kovid would give his assent.
Amid protests against the new farm laws, and days after it advanced procurement of kharif paddy in Punjab and Haryana, the Centre on Monday cleared early procurement in all the remaining states. The usual procurement date is October 1.
For the first time in recent history, the RBI had to postpone its monetary policy review meeting after the government failed to nominate its three members to the six-member panel on time, The Indian Express has learnt.
Bengaluru Police carried out searches at the offices of a TV channel and the home of its managing director-editor Rakesh Shetty after it aired a sting alleging the involvement of members of Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa’s family in acts of corruption.
The Last Stop: INS Viraat approaching the Alang ship breaking yard in Gujarat. (Photo by Nirmal Harindran)
Beyond Covid-19
With the aim to create women leaders, the Department of Science and Technology will develop a framework to rate and rank science institutes depending on the proportion of women employed. Expected to be unveiled by December, this will cover government and private institutes.
A legacy of the ‘Amul model’ is that dairy farmers today are paid not just for quantity, but also for quality of the milk they supply. This benefit isn’t available to other farmers, more so in crops that are sold through APMC mandis. This is where new artificial intelligence technologies hold promise.
ICYMI
- Seeking that her bail plea be rejected, the NCB has told the Bombay High Court that Rhea Chakraborty had bought drugs for and “concealed” Sushant Singh Rajput’s drug habit.
- A 1986-batch IPS officer in Madhya Pradesh, Purushottam Sharma, was relieved of his charge as Director General, Prosecution, after a video of him beating up his wife went viral.
- The AIADMK executive council meeting on Monday decided to announce the CM candidate on October 7 for the Assembly elections expected to be held in May next year.
- INS Viraat, which served the country for several years and was retired in 2017, has reached its final destination. Now it will be dismantled at Alang.
- NCB officials said they confronted actor Deepika Padukone about some words in WhatsApp chats dating back to 2017 retrieved from her phone.
And Finally...
Interview: From Covid, health, and economics to ED and Delhi riot politics, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman speaks to The Indian Express.
Delhi Confidential: Veteran BJP leader Uma Bharti, who could not find a place in the party’s newly constituted team of office-bearers, has written an emotional letter to BJP president J P Nadda.
Until tomorrow,
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