Morning Brief: NY Bombing Suspect Held; Kar Asked To Release 3k Cusecs; Syria Ceasefire Over

Cauvery Issue

The Cauvery Supervisory Committee (CSC), a technical body, empowered by the Supreme Court, has ordered Karnataka to release 3,000 cusecs water instead of 12,000 cusecs mandated by the apex court earlier. On 5 September, the court had ordered that 15,000 cusecs be released. It modified the order on 12 September, saying 12,000 cusecs should be released.

The CSC arrived at its decision after calculating water availability in the river, monsoon performance and agricultural and drinking water requirements in both States.

Manhattan Blast

The Chelsea bombing suspect, Ahmad Khan Rahami, wanted in connection with the 17 Septemeber blast that rocked Manhattan, is now in police custody. He was arrested from New Jersey after a shootout that began when he was found asleep in a doorway.

The bombing in the Chelsea district on Saturday night injured 29 people. An unexploded device was found nearby. Other devices have been found or have exploded in New Jersey over the past few days. According to law enforcement officials, a fingerprint collected from an unexploded device in New Jersey was key in nailing Rahami.

Syrian War

The Syrian military has declared that a week-long ceasefire, brokered by the U.S. and Russia, is over. According to the United Nations, Syrian military hit an aid convoy in Aleppo province aimed at blocking food supply to rebel-held areas. As many as 35 strikes in and around Aleppo have been noted since the truce ended.

The Syrian army declaration of ending the ceasefire came after the bombing of Syrian army positions around Deir ez-Zour by western coalition forces including the U.S., UK, Denmark and Australia that killed 62 Syrian soldiers and injured about 100 others.

IIM Bill

Human Resource Development minister Prakash Javadekar will meet with the directors and chairmen of all 19 IIMs in Shillong today to iron out the differences between the institutes and the government on the IIM bill. The government has already diluted most of the provisions that the IIMs had opposed citing the loss of autonomy.

Javadekar is also likely to take up the issue of introducing reservation for underprivileged sections of society in teaching jobs at the institutes.

Global Warming Fears

Confirming fears of global warming, the scientists have found that Arctic sea ice this summer shrank to its second lowest level since they started monitoring it by satellite. This year’s minimum level is nearly 2.56 million square kilometres smaller than the 1979 to 2000 average.

Some scientists believe that the decrease in Arctic sea ice is impacting weather in mid-latitudes and may be at least partly responsible for the more dramatic, persistent and damaging weather anomalies in recent years.

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