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- The second phase of Bihar assembly elections begins Friday morning. Spread across six Naxal-hit districts, around 86 lakh voters (close to 46 lakh male voters and about 40 lakh female voters) of 32 assembly constituencies will decide the fate of 456 candidates, including 32 female candidates.
- RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan on Thursday welcomed Supreme Court ruling on use of Aadhar card in more schemes and said it will help in financial inclusion drive. With an UIDAI number, a person will now be able to open a bank account as it will work as an identification document and will help in easier access to loans.
- Telecom regulator TRAI is likely to soon come out with recommendations on compensating consumers for call drops. According to sources, the regulator is likely to propose a compensation of Rs 1 for each call drop and the recommendations may come as soon as tomorrow.
- Reversing policy on Afghanistan, US President Barack Obama announced on Thursday that he will slow the pace of withdrawing U.S. troops, prolonging the 14-year U.S. engagement there and effectively handing off the task of pulling out to his successor. Calling it a "modest but meaningful" adjustment Obama said the United States will maintain a force of 9,800 through most of 2016 because Afghan troops are not yet as strong as they need to be.
- In an embarrassment to CBI, a special 2G court today discharged former telecom secretary Shyamal Ghosh and three telecom firms in the 2002 additional spectrum allocation case, saying that the chargesheet was "full of distorted and fabricated facts" and that the agency has tried to "mislead" the court by creating an impression that a grave crime was committed, whereas there was none and there was "no incriminating material on record" against the accused.
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