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- Special MCOCA court convicts 12 out of the 13 accused in 7/11 Mumbai blasts. 5 of them have been awarded death sentence with life imprisonment to remaining 7 accused.
- India has surpassed China and USA in attracting the highest FDI inflows in the first half of 2015. With $31 billion of foreign capital inflows till now, India is ahead by $ 3-4 Billion from both the countries.
- In a significant development, Russia has launched first series of air strikes in war-torn Syria on Wednesday. Moscow is a supporter of Bahser-al-Asad and is allegedly bombing the ISIS territories but United States believes that the targets may have been the non ISIS Syrian rebels.
- The lynching of a 50-year-old man by a mob (which accused his family of consuming beef in a Dadri village near Noida) has sparked outrage. Opposition parties are alleging that such incidents are a result of the climate of hate propagated under BJP to polarize people.
- Pakistan has raised the issue of Kashmir yet again in UN General Assembly speech. He proposed restraint between the two countries and formalization of the 2003 border ceasefire as part of the formula to ensure peaceful ties between the two nuclear armed neighbors.
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