Daily News (In Short)-5-11-2015

#* Dawood is in Pakistan, India will leave no stone unturned to bring him back
Union home minister Rajnath Singh said on Monday the Indian government had provided "relevant documents" on gangster Dawood Ibrahim to Pakistan, but Islamabad had failed to start the process to track him down.Singh informed the House that India had credible information of Dawood being in the neighbour country,  days after the government was left red-faced after it informed Parliament Dawood was not in Pakistan."We will pursue and pressurise Pakistan in tracking Dawood, India will leave no stone unturned to bring him back," Singh said, as he clarified on the government's stand on the issue in the face of an onslaught by the opposition.

#* Moroccan fighter jet in Saudi coalition goes missing in Yemen
Morocco's armed forces say one its F-16 fighter jets taking part in the Saudi-led Sunni coalition air strikes against the Shiite Houthi rebels in Yemen has gone missing.The statement carried by the state news agency MAP said early Monday that the plane has been missing since 6 pm the previous day.The pilot of the second jet said he didn't see pilot of the jet that went missing eject, added the statement, which said that an investigation is under way.

#* Arvind Kejriwal's media madness: Defamation complaints and now his own
Political parties of all hue and colour have united against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal as the Delhi government under the AAP chief has issued a circular asking all its officials to lodge a complaint with the principal secretary (Home) if they come across any news item which damage the reputation of the chief minister or the government, so that further action can be taken.

#* Pakistan Hope to Renew India Cricket Ties With Series in UAE
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said on Sunday it expects bilateral series with India to resume in the United Arab Emirates in December but there was no confirmation from its powerful cross-border counterpart.The series in the UAE will feature three Tests, five one-dayers and two Twenty20 internationals, PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan said in Kolkata after meeting Indian board chief Jagmohan Dalmiya."The security situation (in Pakistan) is improving fast but we know that right now India would not be able to come for a full tour," Khan told a news channel.

#* Didi-Modi love fest: BJP unit becomes sacrificial lamb in West Bengal 'saudagiri'
With not a thundersquall in sight, Kolkata is sweltering at 36 degrees but with a RealFeel temperature of about 50 degrees. But the citizenry’s discomfort is nothing compared to the discomfort felt by the West Bengal BJP. They had to smile politely through gritted teeth and applaud as their bête noire Mamata Banerjee and their hero Narendra Modi put on a grand show of public bonhomie and broke bread privately together.

#* Parliament Live: Rajya Sabha adjourned repeatedly over Gadkari's resignation
By the looks of it, Rajya Sabha hardly processed any business today. PTI reported that the Upper House was adjourned for the fifth time till 1pm after uproar by Congress on the Gadkari issue. The government was all set to bring the Goods and Services Tax (GST) bill, before the Rajya Sabha today which aimed at reforming of India's indirect tax regime.
 The Lok Sabha has already passed a vital legislation to introduce the bill, rejecting the demand of the opposition for sending it to the Standing Committee.Reports earlier claimed that the Congress will be working on multiple strategies to scuttle the Goods and Services Tax bill.

#* Osama bin Laden was ISI prisoner, was betrayed for $25 mn: US journo
Osama bin Laden was a prisoner of the ISI in the garrison town of Abbottabad and a former Pakistani intelligence official gave away his location to the US in return for most of a $25 million reward, veteran journalist Seymour Hersh has said in an article that challenges the Obama administration's narrative of the killing of the Al Qaeda chief.The White House's contention that the May 2011 mission that resulted in the death of bin Laden was an all-American affair and that senior generals of the Pakistan Army and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency were not told of the raid in advance is "false", Hersh has written in a lengthy article published in the London Review of Books.

#* Microsoft may not replace Windows 10; could be the last version of the OS
News has it that there won’t be a Windows 11. Yes, Windows 10 is the last traditional release from the company, and Microsoft will improve it by adding enhancements and updates in the future.TheVerge quotes Microsoft employee Jerry Nixon, a developer evangelist speaking at the company’s Ignite conference saying, “Right now we’re releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we’re all still working on Windows 10.”

#* Facebook wants users to skip Google; starts testing internal search engine for
Facebook has started testing an internal search engine for its mobile app. According to a report by Techcrunch, some iOS users are now seeing an ‘add a link’ option alongside ‘add photos, locations and feelings’.Basically, users can search a keyword in the link function and Facebook will then suggest a list of related news articles that one can post. This new change is being tested to make it simpler to search and share on mobile devices.This means, one will no longer have to search, copy the URL and then paste it while using mobile phones. The report adds that the update is aimed at ‘Facebook’s recent effort to get publishers to post content directly to the site’.

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