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News Digest: April 4-10, 2022

April 6

• Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa revokes state of emergency.

• Parliament passes Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill 2022. The bill seeks to authorize collecting, storing, and analyzing biometric samples of convicts and others involved in criminal matters.

April 7

• CBI arrests 4 people from Mumbai in connection with the Birbhum violence case.

• India abstains in the UN General Assembly on a vote to suspend Russia from the UN Human Rights Council.

• Pakistan Supreme Court restores National Assembly; orders speaker to organise no-confidence vote.

April 8

• Indian student, 21, shot dead at a subway railway station in Canada.

April 10

• India loses to the Netherlands in FIH Women’s Hockey Junior World Cup.

Imran Khan

• Imran Khan loses no-confidence vote in Pakistan’s National Assembly.

Communal clashes erupt in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and West Bengal during Ram Navami festival.

• Two groups of students clash at Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University over serving of non-vegetarian food in the mess on Ram Navami.

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