Speaker 1: This is the catch upon three Things by the Indian
Speaker 1: Express and I'm Ichasharma. Today is the seventh of August
Speaker 1: and here are this week's headlines, starting with an Indian
Speaker 1: Express exclusive. A new public fund to boost India's deep
Speaker 1: tech ambitions in the private sector has approved in its
Speaker 1: first round, over twenty one hundred corore in soft loans
Speaker 1: to twenty two private companies at the cutting edge of space, science, energy,
Speaker 1: tech and pharma, among others. These companies were chosen from
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty four applicants by a twelve member panel,
Speaker 1: including eleven established names in private equity and technology and
Speaker 1: a non voting government representative. The credentials of each company
Speaker 1: are well established. There's one question marked though. An investigation
Speaker 1: by the Inexpress has found that of the twenty two
Speaker 1: recipients of public money, fifteen have investment ties to seven
Speaker 1: members of the selection committee, raising questions of conflict of
Speaker 1: interest and propriety. These together got over thirteen hundred crow rupees.
Speaker 1: Nine of the firms are linked to the chairman of
Speaker 1: the selection panel, the founder of an angel investing network,
Speaker 1: who also has a personal stake in at least one
Speaker 1: of the companies selected. In other Masior News, the opposition
Speaker 1: has been relentless in demanding the Union Home Minister appeared
Speaker 1: in Parliament and respond to allegations that Deli Plus used
Speaker 1: excessive force against students gathered at Jantarmantar for twentieth July protest. Shah, however,
Speaker 1: has not obliged so far, and the opposition has repeatedly
Speaker 1: stalled proceedings in both houses as they demand his presence.
Speaker 1: Today mourning two protests in both the Lok Sabah and
Speaker 1: Ratasabah forced an adjournment for the weekend. In other Masior News,
Speaker 1: four years after the administration attached the office of the
Speaker 1: Jamat Islami in South Kashmir's Shopian after the outfit was
Speaker 1: banned under the UAPA, the Justice and Development Front, a
Speaker 1: breakaway group of the Jamath, has quietly moved in and
Speaker 1: established its office on the premises. The Front has also
Speaker 1: established its office in the building owned by the palae
Speaker 1: Arm Trust in Shrinagar. Falaim, an independent educational trust linked
Speaker 1: to Jamath, ran hundreds of schools across Jammuan, Kashmir before
Speaker 1: they were taken over by the government. However, despite the
Speaker 1: jdf's visible presence at the properties. The Chopian premises even
Speaker 1: has a banner announced in the group's name link to
Speaker 1: the banned organization. The administration seems to have turned its
Speaker 1: gaze away from the supposed takeover, and in other news
Speaker 1: making national headlines, educational institutions seeking minority status in Maharashtra
Speaker 1: could soon face TITO scrutiny, with the government appointed committee
Speaker 1: recommending that the approval process be super by a senior
Speaker 1: iss officer, applications be vetted by a multi department expert panel,
Speaker 1: and institutions be subjected to periodic review even after minority
Speaker 1: status is granted. The Union Express has learned that the
Speaker 1: report submitted by the high level committee headed by Additional
Speaker 1: Chief Secretary b Wayne Gopalreadi, was highlighted the lukane in
Speaker 1: the existing system, which lacks adequate checks, with applications currently
Speaker 1: processed by a dedicated desk usually headed by a nonis
Speaker 1: officer in the Minority Affairs Department, and no mechanism to
Speaker 1: periodically review institutions after they receive minority status and in
Speaker 1: the end. In newsmaking global headlines, US President Donald Trump
Speaker 1: has signed two new executive orders targeting birthright citizenship and
Speaker 1: birth tourism, reviving one of his signature immigration battles, weeks
Speaker 1: after the Supreme Court blocked his earlier attempt. News agency
Speaker 1: Reuters reported the move could effect foreign nationals and include
Speaker 1: ding Indians traveling to US for childbirth or temporary states.
Speaker 1: The move keeps birthright citizenship at the center of Trump's
Speaker 1: immigration agenda. Unlike his first order, signed on his opening
Speaker 1: day back in office in twenty twenty five, the two
Speaker 1: new orders seem to be written more narrowly, so, instead
Speaker 1: of targeting all children born in the US to parents
Speaker 1: who are undocumented or live in the country temporarily, the
Speaker 1: new orders zero in on smaller groups, children born to
Speaker 1: foreign government or embassy staff, children of people the administration
Speaker 1: labels alien enemies, and children whose parents are found to
Speaker 1: have used fraud to gain citizenship. According to the Associated Press,
Speaker 1: and with that this was all for this week, this
Speaker 1: was the catch upon three things by the Indian Express,