Morning Digest: January 25, 2023

Youth outfits defy ‘ban’ to hold public screenings of BBC documentary on PM Modi Youth organisations affiliated to the Opposition parties and student outfits on Tuesday screened the first episode of BBC’s India: The Modi Question across Kerala to lodge protest against the Centre’s recent move to ban it on social media. What took you so long, BJP asks Rahul Gandhi as he disavows Digvijaya Singh’s statement on surgical strikes The BJP on January 24, 2023 demanded to know why it took so long for Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to express his respect for and trust on India’s armed forces, after the latter distanced the party from statements made by senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh. Urination incident | Air India says action against pilot ‘excessive’ In a rare move for any airline, Air India in a public statement called the Directorate General of Civil Aviation’s decision “excessive” for suspending its pilot-in-command for three months for the urination incident on a New York-Delhi flight of November 2022, and announced that it will be helping him appeal against the order. Turkey condemns Quran protest in the Netherlands Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said on January 24 it summoned the Dutch ambassador following a demonstration targeting Islam’s holy book, days after a similar protest in Sweden tensed relations.