WION Morning News Brief, 16 December 2017
Rahul Gandhi
Top developments of the morning
A major tax cut promised by US President Donald Trump was on track for final passage next week, after two previous holdouts in his Republican party said Friday they would vote yes on the legislation.
Congress party headquarters in Delhi wore a festive look ahead of Rahul Gandhi's take over as partypresident todaywith severalsupporters and party workers thronging 24, Akbar Road, early morning to celebrate the 'coronation' of party's new Chief.
USSecretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Friday that the United States was demanding "the immediate release" of two Reuters reporters arrested in Myanmar "or information as to the circumstances around their disappearance."
The Union cabinet on Friday cleared the triple talaq bill. Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the Cabinet had approved a proposal to introduce the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2017, to make instant triple talaq void and illegal.
A strong 6.5-magnitude earthquake rocked Indonesia`s main island of Java late Friday, leaving at least one person dead and rattling nerves in the capital Jakarta.