Daily News (In Short)-26-June-2015

#* Didn't Testify in Court: Vasundhara Raje's Defense to Cite Legal Technicality

NEW DELHI:  To justify that top BJP leader Vasundhara Raje does not need to resign as Rajasthan Chief Minister, the party is likely to present an argument from her legal team that she changed her mind at the last minute about backing the immigration appeal of disgraced cricket magnate Lalit Modi."Nobody is tainted, please," said Finance Minister Arun Jaitley last night, indicating his party continues to back the beleaguered Ms Raje.

#* Indian Railways Starts SMS Alert Service for Cancelled Trains

Indian Railways have begun sending SMS alerts to passengers if the train they have booked tickets for is cancelled.
The Ministry of Railways in a statement on Thursday said it had started another passenger-friendly measure on a pilot-basis, under which SMS messages would be sent to passengers if the train in which they have booked their tickets is cancelled."We commenced the SMS-based service from June 21 on all India basis. Under this pilot project, the SMS messages are sent to those passengers who are boarding at originating station. At a later stage, this will be extended to cover en-route stations also,a Railway Ministry spokesman Anil Kumar Saxena told IANS."The SMS will be sent to the mobile number entered by the passenger in ticket reservation slips. The cancellation information would be sent in advance to the passengers to help them plan alternative arrangement," he said."To avail this facility, passengers have to mention their mobile numbers on the ticket reservation slip," he said.

#* A fun tool for dental practice marketing – Google Hangouts

A Google Hangout gives you the opportunity to virtually connect with up to 150 people at the same time, or up to 10 people over video calls. The Google Hangout interaction occurs in a virtual room where participants can choose to meet via video, audio, or simply through text. It also allows you to share YouTube videos during the meeting. You can launch your own Hangout or join an existing one. If you start your own Hangout, you can invite selected people to be a part of the meeting, or you can make it a public event. An overview of Google Hangouts Google Hangouts has emerged as a popular live streaming video platform over a short period of time. However, the technology is still fairly new and many people are unaware about how to use it to their business or personal advantage. Dental marketers can employ this tool effectively to promote their practices, or simply use it as a powerful and free communication tool. Two primary types of Hangouts are Hangouts and Hangouts on Air. 

#* A straightforward admission: How Rahul Gandhi can free Congress from the Emergency taint

Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi are apparently out of the country. As usual rumours abound of where they have gone and why they have gone. Is it for health reason? Is it for re-upping Rahul’s Vipassana dose after all that hectic recent politicking? Or is to meet Lalit Modi to make sure he does not go after them next? Whatever the real reason, it makes perfect sense for the Gandhis to be out of the country while India marks the 40th anniversary of the Emergency, the part of the family legacy they'd rather not discuss.Rahul Gandhi has no incentive to be hanging around India and responding to Narendra Modi tweets about “one of India’s darkest periods”. And Sonia Gandhi has no incentive to do any more awkward tangos around the Emergency as she did in a 2006 interview with Shekhar Gupta on Walk the Talk being tweeted out by NDTV.

#* Iran Nuclear Agreement Deadline May Slip

STATE DEPARTMENT—
U.S. and Iranian officials depart Friday for a final round of nuclear talks in Vienna, even as U.S. officials conceded a deal may not be able to be reached by a June 30 deadline.A senior U.S. administration official said Thursday negotiators are expected to be "close" to an agreement on the 30th, if they "can get there at all."U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif leave Friday for the closed-door talks, being held at a hotel in Vienna, Austria.Also expected to attend are other high-level officials from countries that make up the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany, the so-called P5+1.The official said negotiators remained “committed” to the Tuesday deadline but may "miss it by a short bit" in order to ensure a proper deal is reached.

#* After Obamacare ruling, US Supreme Court on hot seat in prez race

Infuriated by a United States Supreme Court ruling that kept President Barack Obama's healthcare programme intact, Conservative activists as well as Republican presidential candidates vowed on Thursday to make the role of the high court a central issue in the 2016 presidential election. Conservative ire was trained particularly on Chief Justice John Roberts, who wrote the majority opinion that preserved the subsidy regime underpinning the Affordable Care Act, even though another Republican appointee, Justice Anthony Kennedy, also voted with the majority. Roberts, who was appointed to the court by Republican President George W Bush, has voted with court conservatives on many landmark cases, including ones involving campaign-finance laws and voting rights.  But he also enraged opponents of the Affordable Care Act three years ago when he cast a deciding vote in rejecting a different legal challenge to the law.

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