# Supreme Court

• The Union Government on Thursday moved Supreme Court, requesting it to review and recall its November 11 order directing release of Six Rajiv Gandhi assassination case convicts.
• Union Government said that Supreme Court granted remission of Sentence on the ground that the Court has erred by enlarging foreign terrorists convicted for assassination of a former PM without hearing the centre.
• Union government has seeked a open Court hearing of its review petition, generally considered in chamber by judges.
• The centre complained that in such an important matter, the Court did not hear the Union government and thus crucial material facts against the release could not be placed before the Court.

# Turkiye

• Security agencies have traced the origins of the latest terror threat to Journalists in Jammu and Kashmir, which prompted some of them to resign, to turkiye based Kashmiri terror operatives Mukhtar baba who had in the past also worked as a journalist with Kashmir based news organizations.
• Terrorist Mukhtar was in frequent touch with six persons based in J&K as part of Pakistan’s ISI backed conspiracy to propagate fear by selectively highlighting the resignations of Certain Kashmiri Journalists as an outcome of the circulation of a hit list type message on the Social media.
• Allegedly, five media persons out of eleven on hitlist have resigned from their job.

# USA

• Republicans secured a slender majority in the house of representatives on Wednesday, a delayed yet consequential finish to the 2022 midterms election.
• It sets the stage for two years of divided government as Biden’s Democratic Party held control of the Senate.

# Russia

• Missiles rained down on Ukrainian energy facilities on Thursday, as Russian forces stepped up attacks in Eastern Ukraine.
• Russia has enforced other fronts by pulling troops out from Kherson.