Daily News (In Short)-27-June-2015

#* 38 killed in IS shooting: Tunisia beach resort turns horror house

Three blood-soaked bodies lay amid a jumble of flip-flops and beach towels by the edge of the hotel pool in the Tunisian resort where an attacker gunned down 38 people on Friday.At least 36 more were wounded in the carnage at the Riu Imperial Marhaba Hotel in Port el Kantaoui, a popular destination for foreign tourists on the outskirts of Sousse, south of the capital.Most of those killed in a massacre at a Tunisian beach resort claimed by the Islamic State group were British, Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid said."The majority are British," he told a news conference. "After come the Germans, then the Belgians and then other nationalities," he said, adding that there were also French among the victims.Read: IS claims responsibility for Tunisia, Kuwait terror attacks Officials said a Tunisian student posing as a beachgoer pulled an assault rifle from under a beach umbrella and mowed down holidaymakers on lounge chairs soaking up the summer sun.

#* US gay verdict: Bobby Jindal wants to get rid of Supreme Court

Finding himself at odds with the US Supreme Court over its two landmark judgments upholding same-sex marriages and President Barack Obama's healthcare law, Louisiana's Indian-American governor Bobby Jindal wants to get rid of the court.On the decision of the US Supreme Court legalising same-sex marriages, Jindal said: "The Supreme Court decision today conveniently and not surprisingly follows public opinion polls, and tramples on states' rights that were once protected by the 10th Amendment of the Constitution. Marriage between a man and a woman was established by God, and no earthly court can alter that."This decision will pave the way for an all out assault against the religious freedom rights of Christians who disagree with this decision. This ruling must not be used as pretext by Washington to erode our right to religious liberty."Pegging himself as a rebellious outsider Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal announced Wednesday he is running for president, becoming the 13th Republican to launch a 2016 campaign for the White House.

#* Google makes ‘Undo Send’ feature a standard safeguard in Gmail

Google has said that the 'Undo Send' feature, to retract misdirected or inappropriate emails, has been made an official feature on the company's popular Gmail email service this week.Till now, the 'Undo Send' feature - which basically holds back an email for a few seconds - was hidden away in the Labs menu for the last six years. The availability of the feature in Google's experimental labs necessitated Gmail users to take some additional steps to avail the functionality of withdrawing a sent email.With Google having made changes to the 'Settings' option this week, the 'Undo Send' mechanism has now become a standard safeguard for Gmail users who want to retract a particular email soon after sending it. The 'Undo Send' feature gives Gmail users the option of cancelling the delivery of an email within a span of 30 seconds after hitting the 'Send' button.

#* Kill Bill: IIMA steps up chorus against Centre

The chorus against the IIM Draft Bill is getting louder. On Friday, some more voices from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, joined in the clamour for killing the proposed Bill in its current form at the two-day annual “IIMA Society Conference 2015” held on the campus. Incidentally, just a day earlier, IIMA Board chairman A M Naik had called the Bill, put up by the HRD ministry for public consultation, as “detrimental to the interest of management studies” in India. At a panel discussion on “IIM Bill: Where will it lead IIMs to?” at the conference; IIMA director Ashish Nanda made presentation laying out the major concern areas in the IIM Draft Bill. was by many former and present IIMA Faculty and participants who gave their suggestions. Speaking at the panel, senior IIMA faculty executive vice-chairman of National Innovation Foundation (NIF) Anil Gupta said, “Here is a government which wants to turn the tables, which wants to make India a role model, which has begun with the minimum government, maximum governance. But minimum governance is obviously not when you start micromanaging.” - See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/ahmedabad/kill-bill-iima-steps-up-chorus-against-centre/#sthash.OE6twY4W.dpuf

#* Good voter turnout in Aruvikkara by-polls

People braved an overcast sky to turn up in large numbers from morning on Saturday to cast their franchise for the politically crucial by-poll in Aruvikkara, necessitated following the untimely death of senior Congress leader G. Karthikeyan during his tenure as Speaker in the State Assembly.Around two-and-a half hours after polling began a record 20.1 per cent of voters exercised their franchise. The constituency recorded an over all vote per cent of 70. 21 per cent in the 2011 Assembly polls.Long queues of men and women were seen in majority of the 154 polling booths from early morning. Despite Ramzan fasting, many Muslim voters were seen in large numbers.Candidates in the fray made sure that their supporters reached polling booths early morning to avoid inconvenience in case of rains. Polling so far was peaceful and no political party has made any complaints about the polling process. Heavy police force was deployed in all the booths to ward off poll related untoward incidents.The constituency is witnessing a three cornered contest with Mr. Karthikeyan’s s son as the Congress candidate, former Speaker M. Vijayakumar as the CPI (M) candidate and former Union Minister O. Rajagopal as the BJP nominee.

#* Kuwait bombing prompts oil security boost

KUWAIT says it has raised security at oil facilities in the emirate to maximum level after a deadly mosque bombing claimed by the Islamic State group.FRIDAY'S suicide attack on a mosque in the capital used by members of Kuwait's Shi'ite minority killed 26 people and wounded 227, and was one of the deadliest in the emirate's history."Kuwait Petroleum Corp and its subsidiaries have raised security measures to the maximum level following the terrorist bombing on Friday," the state-owned firm's spokesman Sheikh Talal Khaled Al-Sabah said in a statement."All refineries, oilfields and oil sector operations have been placed under heightened security measures to maintain normal operations without being affected by the terrorist threat," he added.Security at oil facilities had already been beefed up in March following the launch of a Saudi-led air campaign against Shi'ite rebels in Yemen in which Kuwait has been taking part. Police have detained several suspects for questioning in connection with Friday's bombing, the interior ministry said.

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