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ARISE, AWAKE, SPEAK

SAY NO TO CASTE BASED RESERVATIONJoint Action Committee (General Category) is organising a

convention cum public awareness rally on 29th May 2016,Sunday, 9 am at Maharaja Hari Singh Park near Hotel FortuneRivera, Behind Exhibition Ground Prem Nagar, Jammu on theissue of “Reservation on Economic basis- A Pre-requisitefor inclusive development” to share the views and opinionof general masses on the subject.

All those people who share the cause with us irrespective ofcaste, creed and colour are requested to join us on 29th May2016 and strengthen our hands to fight this menace of castebased reservation system and send a strong message tolegislature of our country.

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Narendra Modi secondmost-liked world leader

on FacebookKOLKATA, May 26:

As Narendra Modi completestwo years as Prime Minister, heremains the second most-likedworld leader on Facebook, thesocial media giant said today.

The list of most-liked worldleaders on Facebook released bythe social network shows that Modiis second only to US PresidentBarack Obama and is followed byTurkish President Recep TayyipErdogan.

Modi’s Facebook post onMay 15 with his mother at hisofficial residence at Delhi’s RaceCourse Road remains on top with1.6 million likes, 1.2 lakh sharesand 34,000 comments.

“My mother returns toGujarat. Spent quality time withher after a long time & that tooon her 1st visit to RCR,” he hadwritten in the post which wasaccompanied by three photo-graphs of the mother-son duo.

The Prime Minister’s col-leagues are also not far behindin making their presence felt inthe virtual world.

Out of a total of 50 cabinetministers along with ministerswith independent charge, 47 ofthem have verified Facebookpresence.

During the last one year, the topperforming ministers on Facebookinclude Home Minister RajnathSingh, HRD minister Smriti ZubinIrani, Finance Minister Arun Jaitleyand Food processing ministerHarsimrat Kaur Badal.(PTI)

Decisions on visas toPakistan nationals to

be speeded upNEW DELHI, May 26:

Decisions on granting visasto Pakistani nationals are likelyto be speeded up by the IndianGovernment by simplifying thenecessary processes.

Union Home Ministry offi-cials are working on simplify-ing processes for "quick deci-sion making" on visa applica-tions by Pakistani nationals,official sources said today.

The matter regarding grantof visas by India was discussedbetween Home Secretary RajivMehrishi and Indian HighCommissioner to PakistanGautam Bambawale here today.

Both the officials are under-stood to have discussed issuesrelating to the two countries.

The sources said the officialsdiscussed ways to upgrade exist-ing facilities at its Attari immigra-tion check point in Punjab.

The Home Ministry is seek-ing to ensure that a decisionwhether to grant a visa or not to aPakistani national is taken in aminimum time and its modalitiesare understood to have discussedduring the 30-minute-long meet-ing, the sources said.(PTI)