INDIA –  An Indian student has been sent to jail for cheating after she failed a retest. Ruby Rai, 17, ranked first in the Bihar state exams – but said in a video interview that her main subject political science was about cooking. After the video went viral, Ms Rai was made to re-sit her exams, and was arrested after she failed and had her original results cancelled.

She was produced in court last weekend where a magistrate sent her to jail until 8 July. The decision to send her to prison has been criticised given that she is a minor and should, therefore, be sent to a detention home for juveniles. The Hindu newspaper quoted Senior Superintendent of Police Manu Maharaj as saying that Ms Rai would have to “prove” that she was a minor. He did not specify how.  One state minister told reporters that authorities needed to make the system accountable instead of punishing students.  Meanwhile, arrest warrants have been issued for several other students who performed well in the exams, including Saurabh Shrestha who topped the science stream, but later could not say that H2O was water..(BBC.COM/photo: bbc.com)….[+]

Driving seven hundred miles in one day, for a lot of people, might seem like a daunting task, but for trucker, singer and recording artiste Roylin Isaacs it is all in a day’s work.

Isaacs, who goes by the stage name Dead-li, which he jocularly said that he gave himself to intimidate his competitors, stressed that he is presently on a journey- driving his musical career to ‘destination Success!’. Isaacs in a more serious mode however, related that it was his ability to ‘destroy’ the competition, while at school in Brooklyn, that earned him the moniker.Kaieteurnews.com/photo: Kaieteurnews.com)…[+]

KENYA  –   Kenyan authorities are investigating if pupils who set fire to their school dormitories did so after being told they could not watch a Euro 2016 match on television.

The trouble happened last weekend at a school in the west of the country, local media reports. It began with a few students throwing stones and shouting “our rights”, school principal Andrew Otara said. It is the latest in a spate of arson incidents at Kenyan schools. The pupils at Itierio Boys Secondary School in Kisii were not allowed to stay up to watch the Euro 2016 match between Croatia and Portugal, KTN television news reports. There were also complaints that the school had introduced new stricter discipline rules but the school has denied this.(BBC.COM/photo: www.thecitizen.co.tz)…[+]

George Will is no longer a Republican — and it’s all Donald Trump’s fault, the famed conservative columnist said Sunday. “I left it for the same reason I joined it in 1964 when I voted for Barry Goldwater. I joined it because I was a conservative. But I leave for the same reason, that I’m a conservative,” Will told Fox News Sunday. Will chalked up his departure to Trump’s ascension — along with the Republican party’s embrace of its presidential candidate.(nypost.com)…[+]

WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton campaign unloaded on Donald Trump Sunday, with a new ad claiming the presumptive GOP nominee wants to profit from Brexit — to the detriment of Average Joes.

The former secretary of state jumped on the Republican’s own words when Trump said his Turnberry Resort in Scotland will profit handsomely in light of the British pound’s descent, following Brexit. The tough ad uses Trump’s words from Friday when he visited Scotland: “When the pound goes down, more people are coming to Turnberry.” The Dow Jones Industrial index fell 610 points on Friday following the UK’s stunning vote to leave the EU.(nypost.com)…[+]

As global markets reel after an establishment-rattling vote by Britain to sever ties with Europe, investors are again expecting central banks to ride to the rescue.

And that may be the problem. Or so believe a number of investors and economists who worry that another round of central bank intervention in the markets will compound the sense of alienation, frustration and anger at global elites that encouraged a majority of Britons to opt for leaving the European Union. Traditionally, market participants have tended to cheer central bank activism.(nytimes.com)…[+]