By YKA Staff:
What’s the latest around the world today? Curated for you from the interwebz, here’s a quick morning fix to keep you updated. In 140 characters at that! Presenting, #NewsInTweets:
1. JNU teachers make a human wall around students to protect them from unfair action. Delhi Police orders a probe in whether they are ‘shielding’ students. They also want to transfer the sedition case against Kanhaiya Kumar to their anti-terror branch.
JNU campus row: Delhi police to probe whether teachers are shielding the accusedhttps://t.co/8GqnKSyWhn pic.twitter.com/81J9qUnRNe
— IndiaToday (@IndiaToday) February 14, 2016
https://twitter.com/DTNIndia/status/698597517856866304
#JNUCrackdown | Delhi Police wants to transfer JNU sedition case to Special cell, their anti-terror branch
— News18 (@CNNnews18) February 14, 2016
2. Jawahar Yadav, former Officer on Special Duty to Haryana CM, tweeted: “Women in JNU, who were chanting anti-national slogans, for those, I will only say that prostitutes are better than all of you, they sell their body not the nation.”
Haryana CM’s ex-OSD terms JNU female students ‘prostitutes’. Yes, that's how they see slogans of women's azaadi https://t.co/eEwUdr1wp2
— Kavita Krishnan (@kavita_krishnan) February 13, 2016
3. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia passes away at the age of 79.
Scalia death makes '16 all about the court. A leading scholar breaks down what happens next. https://t.co/o8lH46Lzm8
— Salon (@Salon) February 14, 2016
4. The AAP government in Delhi finished 1 year of ruling, CM Arvind Kejriwal will hold a public interaction session today where ministers will answer phone calls from people and take their feedback.
On Valentine's Day, Arvind Kejriwal will wait for a call from Delhi https://t.co/0fMeWKeteVpic.twitter.com/KrBlbnK7yt
— Mahendra Singh Raghuvanshi (@msrbpl) February 14, 2016
5. Journalist Karun Mishra (28) was shot by three unidentified persons in Gosaiganj in Uttar Pradesh. CM Akhilesh Yadav has ordered a probe into the murder.
Uttar Pradesh: Journalist shot dead in Sultanpur; CM Akhilesh Yadav orders probe https://t.co/OXkTnCBMex
— DNA (@dna) February 14, 2016
6. 55% of the 5.5 million deaths that occurred in 2013 due to air pollution come from India and China.
https://twitter.com/AmbarishParsa/status/698711085042368514