The Hindu Morning Digest, Septembe 20, 2024

Doctors call off strike after Bengal government lists reforms Protesting resident doctors in West Bengal decided to call off their agitation outside Swasthya Bhawan and announced that they will join emergency services in the State run health facilities from Saturday. ‘Indian ammunition entering Ukraine’: India dismisses media report as ‘speculative and misleading’ India described as “inaccurate” a media report that said artillery shells sold by Indian arms manufacturers have been diverted by European customers to Ukraine and New Delhi has not intervened to stop it. ‘Congress has history of abusing PM, OBCs’: Nadda says in letter to Kharge A war of words between the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress escalated after BJP president J.P. Nadda accused the Congress of having a “history of using abusive language against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and OBCs ” in his response to a letter from Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge to the PM a few days ago. Fed rate cut to have muted impact on India: CEA Chief Economic Adviser V. Anantha Nageswaran said the impact of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut of 50 basis points will be limited for India, and though it will be a positive for emerging economies in general, it cannot be construed as a “fillip for the global economy” because there are other factors at play. U.S. lawmakers express outrage over vandalism of temple in New York More than two dozen top American lawmakers have expressed outrage over the recent vandalism of a Hindu temple in New York, which came days ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the U.S.The road and the signage outside the BAPS Swaminarayan Temple in Melville, New York, were sprayed with expletives on Monday.