#NewsInTweets: In A First, A Pakistan Probe Team To Survey Pathankot Air Base In India

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. In a first, a team of Pakistani Military Intelligence and ISI will get access to the Pathankot airbase. The team from Pakistan will arrive today and examine evidence related to the Jan 2016 Pathankot terror attack.

2. PM Modi addresses a rally in Assam, assures prosperity for the state and and praises BJP’s CM candidate Sarbananda Sonowal.

3. India will face Australia in the World T20 match. The winner will reach the semifinal of the tournament.

4. 5 killed and 40 injured as a bus collided with a tanker in Jodhpur.

5. NASA to initiate an around-the-world mission to study climate change.

6. Deepak Jaiswal, a journalist with Hindi daily Daindini, was arrested in Bastar for a case registered against him about one of his stories which stated that teachers were helping students cheat in exams. This is the 4th journalist to be arrested from the region in the last 6 months.

7. A farmer died 3 days after he consumed insecticide outside Mumbai’s Mantralaya, in protest for a shortfall of Rs 7,200 in the compensation payable by the state to drought-hit farmers.