News Digest (3rd July 2021, Saturday)

Details: Category: News in Brief; Published: Saturday, 03 July 2021 04:15

- by AVM

Headlines

Indian-origin Vandi Verma drives Perseverance rover on Mars, says it's incredible; driving rovers on Mars since 2008 with successfully steering Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity rovers

Unity22: Sirisha Bandla, the Indian-American woman joining Richard Branson on his first space trip in what will be the company’s fourth crewed test space flight.

Uttarakhand: Tirath Singh Rawat resigns as CM in surprise late-night move; After 'Mistake' of picking Tirath Singh Rawat, BJP to go with a sitting MLA

Pogonotrophy (which means the growing or cultivation of a beard)': Tharoor drops another 'Head-scratcher', refers to PM while explaining

Euro 2020: Semi-Finalists - Italy with 2-1 win over Belgium; Spain beat Switzerland on Penalties 1-1 (3-1)

Three Militants, Army Jawan Killed in Encounter in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama

If minister not good, PM will take care, courts can't do anything: SC on plea against V K Singh

3 Militants gunned down and an Army jawan lost his life in an encounter in Pulwama district of J&K

Time's up: No response from Twitter on locking of Prasad, Tharoor's accounts, says Parl Panel

2,000 people shifted to relief camps as flash flood damages homes, crops in Tripura; some houses partially damaged, some dwellings almost swept away

Basalt Rock Pillar, formed six crore years back, found in Maha's Yavatmal Shibla-Pardi village in Wani-Pandhakawda area

Justice Bhushan (6th senior most in SC), set to retire, has been part of several landmark verdicts including Ayodhya & Aadhaar

BJP Rajya Sabha MP Rakesh Sinha reports fire at his residence at Delhi's Shahjahanpur Road, tags PM Modi for help

Laurus Labs receives licence from DRDO to manufacture and market Covid drug 2DG

Customs officials at Chennai airport found 107 live spiders in a postal parcel that arrived from Poland at the Foreign Post Office

State found on a wrong foot, was in denial mode; West Bengal post-poll violence: Calcutta HC orders police to register all cases

Expert panel allows Dr. Reddy’s to submit Russian trial data for nod to Sputnik Light

Veeranpal Kaur, Kashmiri Sikh woman, who has assumed the name Kahtiza and married to a Muslim man, says she willingly embraced Islam, denies ‘love jihad’

Keralite IIT Madras asst professor of Dept of Humanities and Social Services Vipin Puthiyedathveetil, resigns on caste discrimination, letter goes viral

Financial & Business News

Maruti Suzuki extends free service, warranty timelines

At $95 Billion, India reports highest ever exports in a quarter; 85% higher than exports registered Y-o-Y

Indians left unemployed by virus want an urban job guarantee scheme on the lines of MGNREGA

30 IPOs coming in next six months to leave you spoilt for choice; 22 Cos raised in excess of Rs 26,000Cr via primary floats in 1st 6 months of 2021

RBI: Bank credit grew 5.82% to Rs 108.42 lakh crore; deposits rose 10.32% to Rs 152.99 lakh crore in the fortnight ended June 18, 2021

Exports grow 47% to $32.46 billion in June; trade deficit at $9.4 billion

Forex reserves rise by $5 billion to lifetime high of $609 billion

Deal with Reliance could put Google on cloud nine. Tech giant may earn over $1 bn in revenue

Indian Railways Freight loading up 20.37% to 112.65 million Tonnes in June 2021; highest ever freight loading in 10 months - from Sep 2020-Jun 2021

Suzuki Jimny commercial vehicle introduced globally

Govt plans institution to fund businesses focused on electric vehicles: Gadkari

Mecedes AMG E 63 S, E 53 India-launch on July 15

Ola CEO test rides upcoming electric scooter ahead launch

Tata Motors to launch Harrier, Nexon, Altroz black edition

MG compact SUV, likely to be named Astor, launch by end-2021

Nissan conducting feasibility study for producing EVs in India

Centre imposes stock limit on pulses to send ‘right signal’ to market

‘Absolutely a sprint’: How Andy Jassy raced to the top of Amazon

Facebook set to finance regional Australia newspaper fund

IT rules mandate: Facebook, Instagram take down 3.2 crore posts over unlawful content in a month

Christians and Sikh show increase in dowry payments in rural India: World Bank blog

Big Tech’s push into India’s financial sector raises concerns, says RBI

Petrol crosses Rs. 100 in Chennai; at Rs. 99 in Delhi, Kolkata

Parents in UK who named their kids Alexa want Amazon to use a different name

BSES discoms can exit 25-year-old Dadri pact

Corona Updates

India on Friday reported 46,617 new cases and 853 deaths as per health ministry's updated data. Total recoveries have jumped to 59,384.

Both doses of vaccine provide around 98 pc protection from death due to Covid: Govt citing study

Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya visits SII vaccine plant in Pune

Britain reports 50,824 new cases of Delta variant in latest week

No more lockdowns for vaccinated people in Germany

Pakistan’s pace of Covid-19 vaccination remains ‘very slow’

Both doses of vaccine provide around 98% protection from death due to Covid-19: Union govt citing study on 42,720 police personnel in Punjab

Pregnant women now eligible for Covid-19 vaccine, can register on CoWIN or Walk in

India crosses grim milestone of 4 lakh Covid-19 deaths, 60% of fatalities in 2nd wave; 1.62 lakh in Apr to 4 lakh in July

'Not one dose...': Africa's Covid-19 Envoy blasts EU, Covax over vaccine crisis amid a crushing third surge of infections

Covax calls for equal recognition of Covid-19 vaccines

Experts question if WHO should lead pandemic origins probe

Biden: Concern about unvaccinated during holiday

Covid-19: Centre sends teams to 6 states with high caseloads

World: 183,830,898; Active 11,598,995 (6.30%); Recovery 168,262,581 (91.53%); Vaccinated 3.13BN

India: 30,501,189; Active 502,383 (1.65%); Recovery 29,597,738 (97.04%); Vaccinated 334.74MN

State News

Jharkhand reports 88 new Covid cases and 111 recoveries; 80 new positive cases in Gujarat; Maharashtra reports 8,753 new cases and 156 deaths; Delhi reports 93 new cases (positivity rate – 0.13%), 407 recoveries and 2 deaths; Goa reports 183 new cases and 2 deaths in the last 24 hours

Goa extends state level curfew till 7 am, 12th July; Tamil Nadu extends lockdown till July 12 with more relaxations

UP govt allows opening of gym, multiplexes from Monday July 5

Higher cases, low CFR: Kerala’s Covid numbers in 5 charts

Bengali actress Shruti Das files a complaint against online abuse over her dusky skin tone

Srishty Rode dances to Badshah's 'Pani Pani' song just before her surgery to fight anxiety, shares video online

20 markets in Delhi to go plastic-free: South Delhi Municipal Corporation

Only 16.18 pc govt schools in Odisha have computer facility

New Delhi: Over 2,700 high school students participate as High School Moms (HSM) and INACE

Mandira Bedi broke gender stereotypes as she performed the last rites of husband Raj Kaushal

28-year-old man fakes own abduction to pay off debts in Delhi

61-year-old man kills wife, hangs self in Delhi, apparently after a heated argument

SIM card vendor arrested in Delhi for forging Aadhaar card details of customers

Yami Gautam summoned by Mumbai unit of ED

Family friend confirms Dilip Kumar is stable, and may be discharged in a couple of days

Assets of Ahmed Patel’s son-in-law, Dino Morea, Sanjay Kahn and DJ Aqeel seized in fraud cause

Song Joong Ki goes into self-quarantine amid ‘Bogota’ shoot; tests negative for Covid-19

Vidyut Jammwal heaps praises for South film star Ajit; also admits he watched Kamal Haasan’s Indian multiple times

Workd day and night to de-silt drains before arrival of monsoon: Delhi PWD to engineers

Delhi: Manoj Tiwari, Gautam Gambhir seek AIIMS-like hospital in trans-Yamuna region

Delhi: Light rains in city brings down temperature

Maharashtra: Pilgrims carry sandals of Saint Dnyaneshwar in palanquin

Kuwait News

Kuwait Amir congratulates Canada on national day

Kuwait’s response to Iraq ‘exemplary’: MEP

OPEC crudes basket up USD 1.32 to USD 75.16 bp

No casualties in Jleeb Al-Shoyoukh fire: KFF

*Speaker Al-Ghanim adjourns Parliament’s 16th legislative Team

Kuwait, Germany discuss strategic coop.

Kuwait list 1,895 new Covid-19 cases, 16 deaths

Speaker Al-Ghanim vacates Abdullah Al-Salem Hall for secret meeting

Kuwait’s financial position ‘very strong’, minister says

Kuwaiti Premier League club, Al-Kuwait, completes the signing of former Chelsea and Nigeria midfielder John Obi Mikel on a one-year contract

International News

Indian Ambassador in US Taranjit Singh Sandhu interacts with White House fellows; discussed with them the intricacies of diplomacy and the relationship

Bitter turf war over theatre commands erupts publicly, CDS reject IAF’s concerns

After nearly 20 years, the US military handed over the Bagram Airfield to the Afghans; Biden says "No" final withdrawal of US Troops in next few days; June deadliest month in two decades of ongoing Afghan conflict; Afghan forces killed over 6,000 Taliban terrorists

No surrender, no peace treaty, no final victory: Did US win Afghanistan war?

Russia says Islamic State building up forces in North Afghanistan as Nato exits: News agency Ifax

Drone spotted over Indian High Commission in Islamabad, Delhi lodges strong protest with Pak

Thousands of women protest as Turkey quits violence-on-women Treaty from the Istanbul Convention

Canada Day eclipsed by graves found at indigenous schools

Amid jaw-dropping Record High Temperature, raging fires char Canada town; 1,000 shifted

Top court gives French govt nine months to act on climate change

Paris: Rising food prices deepen the woes of world’s poorest

Saudi Arabia wants to launch a new national airline in a bid to move away from oil dependence

Boeing 737 Cargo Plane makes Emergency Landing on water in Hawaii after the pilots reported engine trouble

‘Abusive environment’: Kamala Harris faces allegations of ‘toxic’ work environment

US take further actions against Burma’s military

EU, UNRWA celebrates 50 years of partnerships

US economy adds 850,000 jobs in June, unemployment rate at 5.9 pct

The Saudi-led coalition in support of Yemen’s legitimacy shoots down a single drone, launched by the Houthi militia, which was targeting Saudi Arabia

The European Union’s Digital Covid Certificate Regulation, which allows Covid-19 vaccinated EU nationals unimpeded movement between member states, enters into force

Russian authorities foil two terrorist attacks planned by the so-called Islamic State

The response of Kuwait towards Iraq until today has been ‘exemplary’, Hannah Neumann, a European Parliament member says

The US budget deficit is expected to hit USD 3 trillion this year, the second largest since 1945, as a result of the repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the Congressional Budget Office

US employment likely accelerated in June as companies boosts perks for workers

Delta variant cases rise by 50,824 in UK, hospitalisations remain low

Pilots rescued after cargo plane crashes in ocean off Hawaii

Sports News

Simon stars as Spain beat Switzerland on penalities to reach Euro 2020 semis

Wimbledon 2021: Sania Mirza, Rohan Bopanna defeat Ankita Raina, Ramkumar Ramanathan to enter Second Round

Novok Djokovic into Wimbledon last 16 for the 13th time

PV Sindhu’s Tokyo Olympics preparations get a big boost, request for advanced recovery system approved

Test cricket is no longer at the top of people’s lists, but it is alive and well, says Michael Holding

Shikhar Dhawan-led Indian team starts training in Sri Lanka

Kohli only expressed his opinion on best of three WTC final, never demanded it, says Ashwin

In London and Rio, Deepika Kumari didn't know how to handle pressure, in Tokyo she can win India’s first Olympic medal in archerys, says Dola Banerjee
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