Morning Digest: BJP MP Panda to head select committee to examine Income Tax Bill; Another batch of deported Indians to land in Amritsar today, and more

The Hindu Morning Digest gives a select list of stories to start the day. Read the top news today on February 15, 2025

The select committee of the Lok Sabha, which will examine the Income-Tax Bill, 2025, was constituted on Friday with BJP MP Baijayant Jay Panda appointed as chairman of the panel.

As President’s Rule commenced in Manipur on Friday (February 14, 2025), police officials said that the crackdown against extortion rings will be intensified in the coming days without “political interference”.

While farmers kept up their protests in Punjab, Union Minister Pralhad Joshi and farmer leaders Jagjit Singh Dallewal and Sarwan Singh Pandher among others met on Friday (February 14, 2025) in Chandigarh to deliberate on their demands, including a legal guarantee for minimum support price (MSP) on crops.

The government rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s offer to “help” in ending India-China border tensions, which echoed his previous offer to mediate after the Galwan clashes in 2020. The comments were made by Mr. Trump during his joint press conference on Thursday (February 13, 2025) in Washington with Prime Minister Narendra Modi by his side.

Another batch of around 119 illegal migrant Indians deported from the United States is expected to reach Punjab’s Amritsar International Airport on February 15.

The Supreme Court on Friday said the plea of influencer Ranveer Allahbadia against the FIRs lodged against him over his alleged distasteful comments during a programme on YouTube will be taken up in two-three days.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday (February 14, 2025) effected an organisational reshuffle by appointing new general secretaries and in-charges across 13 States and four Union Territories after the party suffered a series of electoral setbacks.