News Digest (9th July 2021, Friday)
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- Published: Friday, 09 July 2021 01:27
News Digest (9th July 2021, Friday)*
- by AVM
Headlines
Former Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh passes away
First meeting of PM Modi’s new Cabinet focuses on agriculture, health sectors
Learn from experience of predecessors; avoid unnecessary remarks: PM Modi to ministers
PM Modi expresses concern over people roaming without masks or social distancing
Covid situation in India vastly improved, hope countries would ease travel restrictions: MEA
PM Modi stressed that powered by our Covid warriors and frontline workers, India’s fight against the global pandemic is underway with full vigour. We are steadily vaccinating substantial numbers of our nation’s population. Testing is also consistently high: Sources
LIC to have chief executive officer, managing director; government does away with chairman post
Supreme Court: Not within Delhi Assembly’s mandate to call Facebook accused to call Facebook accused in 2020 riots
Supreme Court: Debates, posts on social media platforms like Facebook can polarise society
India’s education system has taken giant leap with introduction of NEP: Dharmendra Pradhan
SC grants bail to 13 who were in jail for two decades despite proving juvenility
Act immediately: 8 states with high positivity rates told
Fire breaks out at CBI office building in Delhi
‘Baseless propaganda’: MEA on Pakistan’s claims of India orchestrating Lahore blast
OIC seeks Indo-Pak dialogue, wants to send team to Kashmir
Andhra Pradesh CM Jagan Mohan Reddy’s sister Y S Sharmila floats political party “YSR Telangana Party, in Telangana
Ex-IPS Annamalai appointed BJP Tamil Nadu unit President
BJP nominee’s convoy attacked in Gorakhpur
Financial & Business News
Industry players roll out wishlist for new IT and telecom minister
Cairn Energy claims order to attach 20 Indian properties in Paris
Cairn Energy secures French court order to seize 20 Indian government properties: Report
Cairn dispute: Government says open to finding solution
Twitter appoints India compliance executive, yet to fill other roles to meet IT rules
‘Everyone will have to follow law of the country’: IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Titter faceoff
Centre free to act against Twitter if it breaches IT rules; Twitter will be in trouble if it fails to comply with the new rules: Delhi HC
RBI’s Shaktikanta Das wants to support growth, keep inflation expectations anchored
After targeting the ride-hailing platform days after its IPO, Chinese regulators on July 6 moved against more companies that had recently been listed on Wall Street
TCS reports 28.5% rise in Q1 net profit at Rs. 9,008 crore
Sensex sinks 486 points to close at 52,569; Nifty ends below 15,750
RBI asks banks to shift from LIBOR to alternative reference rates by Dec 31
Power demand surges to all-time high; crosses 200 GW mark
Will ensure further improvement of textile sector: Piyush Goyal
Private equity inflows jump 118% in H1 to $11.82 billion
Auto retail picks up pace in June with nearly 23% rise
Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) becomes third busiest airport in India, in terms of international traffic sector, after Delhi and Mumbai airports
Corona Updates
India on Thursday reported 45,892 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, according to data from the health ministry. Thursday is the 30th consecutive day when India reported less than one lakh new coronavirus cases. The active cases have now come down below 5 lakh. The country has 4,60,704 active cases presently and has witnessed a total of 4,05,028 deaths so far.
A total of 4,05,028 deaths have been reported so far in the country. This includes 1,23,857 from Maharashtra, 35,601 from Karnataka, 33,196 from Tamil Nadu, 25,005 from Delhi, 22,666 from Uttar Pradesh, 17,850 from West Bengal and 16,141 from Punjab.
UK's daily Covid-19 cases pass 32,000 for the first time since January
Mankind Pharma gets DRDO nod to manufacture, market Covid drug 2-DG
Sanofi, GSK receive nod for Phase 3 trial of Covid-19 vaccine candidate in India
Indonesia, Thailand consider booster shots amid doubts over Sinovac vaccine
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga formally declared on Thursday a state of emergency in Tokyo, putting restrictions aimed at curbing coronavirus infections in place through August 22.
With cases stabilising, Taiwan to partially ease Covid-19 curbs
Covid-19: Oman suspends flights from 24 countries, including India, Pakistan
Scientists find new drug target to treat coronavirus, fight future pandemic
Fully vaccinated travellers can avoid tests, quarantine: The National Experts Group on Vaccine Administration for Covid-19 (NEGVAC) and the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation in India (NTAGI)
Sydney sees worst pandemic day of 2021 two weeks into lockdown
The health ministry stressed that more than 70 per cent of the deaths occurred due to comorbidities
The total number of vaccine doses administered so far has reached 36.48 crore under the nationwide vaccination drive.
Russia offers North Korea Covid vaccines once again
Seoul spy agency: No sign North Korean leader has been vaccinated
UK’s daily Covid-19 cases pass 32,000 for the first time since Jan
Covid origins mirror SARS’s genesis in animals, study finds
From UK to Indonesia; How Delta variant is dominating global Covid surge
World: Confirmed: 185,029,960; Total Deaths: 4,000,929; Recovered: 121,786,890; Active Cases: 59,242,141
India: Confirmed: 30,709,557; Total Deaths: 405,028; Recovered: 29,843,825, Active Cases: 460,704
State News
Guneet Monga, Producer & CEO Sikhya Entertainment was awarded with ‘Chevalier dans I’Ordre des Arts et des lettres’ (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters), the Second highest civilian French honour by French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian
Mumbai reported 540 new positive cases, 13 deaths; Mizoram reports 548 fresh Covid-19 cases, 2 more fatalities; Arunachal logs 404 fresh Covid-19 cases, 3 more fatalities; Tamil Nadu reported 3,211 new cases, 3,565 recoveries, and 57 deaths in last 24 hours
In Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district, not even half of the families that lost a member to Covid last year have been compensated
Dropping Harsh Vardhan shows the entire country's work on COVID has not been up to the mark and they have completely failed to rescue the people of this country: Karnataka Congress President DK Shivakumar on Cabinet expansion.
We hope that with the vast improving Covid situation, countries would ease restrictions. We've taken up the issue with Foreign Ambassadors such as resumption of flights. We're actively trying to help Indians who need to travel back to countries across the world: MEA on visa issue
Kerala’s TPR still over 10%, a concern
With 16,000 cases, Kerala crosses 30 lakh after Maharashtra
Berths for 4 Bengal first-time Lok Sabha MPs to help consolidate base
Big piece of the pie for Maharashtra with an eye on 2024
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal inaugurated 2nd coronavirus genome-sequencing laboratory at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) here on Thursday and said it will help detect new variants of the coronavirus and ascertain their severity.
With Uttar Pradesh polls in mind, BJP makes OBC-dalit outreach
Petrol crosses Rs. 100-mark: Angst and despair among Delhities
After petrol, CNG price hike in Delhi, adjoining cities
Delhi: Congress protests outside petroleum minister’s house
Probe Bitcoin case, Delhi court tells police
Delhi Development Authority extends last date for payment of balance bid premium for e-auctions
Three held in connection with killing of boy in southwest Delhi
Writer Talat Rahim on Dilip Kumar: Peshawarites came out to express their grief and sorrow on the demise of their most famous son
Heartwarming! Dilip Kumar's Pakistani fans light candles and offer prayers for the late actor outside his ancestral home in Peshawar
BJP left it to Dilip Kumar to decide whether to return Nishaan-e-Pakistani award, in 1999 itself
NCW takes suo motu cognizance about a website posting pictures of Muslim women for auction; Delhi Police registers case after photos of Muslim women uploaded on app
@RamzPuj, the 41-year-old banker and amateur Mumbai weatherman who gives IMD a run for the money
One killed, another injured after being hit by car in Delhi’s Daryaganj
Tourists violate covid norms at Mussoorie's Kempty Falls
Actress Sambhavna Seth and her husband Avinash Dwivedi apologies to Adivasi community for hurting their sentiments
Telangana Congress chief booked for taking out rally
Uttar Pradesh: Reopen classes 9-12 from July 19, says school association
Master of wit, foodie and simple man: Adnan Sami pays tributes to Dilip Kumar
Nasir Khan, Sayyeshaa Saigal, Adnan Sami: Bollywood celebs who are related to Dilip Kumar
Lyricist-writer Javed Akhtar pays tribute to Dilip Kumar, says icon was 'epitome of dignity, graciousness'; while Marlon Brando may be synonymous with method acting, but (Dilip) Kumar was way ahead of the Hollywood actor
Dharmendra tweets 'Jaan nikal gai meri' as he broke down holding 'brother' Dilip Kumar for the one last time
'Shocked': Delhi HC gives Juhi Chawla a week more to deposit Rs 20 lakh fine, cost imposed on them for their lawsuit challenging 5G wireless network technology
KKK11’s Rahul Vaidya on Indian Idol controversies: The show was too pure during my time
Uttar Pradesh: Thief caught red-handed after CCTV cams help crack Rs 6.5 lakh theft on train
Delhi cannot afford repeat of February 2020 riots and the role of Facebook in this context must be looked into by the powers that be: Supreme Court
Two wanted men held in separate shootouts in Delhi
Grenade found inside drain in southwest Delhi
Kuwait News
Kuwaiti oil price down $2.63 to $74.59 pb
MoH negates private hospitals importing vaccines rumor
Kuwait says it supports Egypt, Sudan “legitimate water rights over the filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)”
Kuwait lists 1,705 new Covid-19 cases, 12 deaths
Kuwait ‘strongly’ condemns Haitian president assassination
Kuwait Airways increases flights to London to 3 per week
Kuwait-funded artificial limbs change lives for Iraqi amputees
Gulf security is our security: Sami Simpson, top British Official
Kuwait MoH: External vaccine certificates to be examined
Media reports saying that the govt is planning to introduce additional Covid-19 measures are ‘incorrect’: Head of the Kuwaiti Government Communication Centre Tareq Al-Mezrem
International News
Covid-19 cases in US increased 11% in seven day average, Delta variant ‘rapidly’ spreading across the nation: CDC
Afghanistan forces regain control of provincial capital from Taliban; Taliban rebels launched their first assault on a provincial capital in Afghanistan, as clashes with Afghan Security forces intensify across the country
Trokia urge “immediate action” to ensure humanitarian aid for South Sudan
Jordan gets 50 mln cubic meters of water from Israel
The EU said the next meeting of the Joint Commission of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the Iran Nuclear deal, would will take place whenever there is an agreement among the involved parties to meet
China targeting Uyghur families to silence activists abroad, says Rights group
Malaysia in political limbo as key ally pulls support for PM
Tears, prayer mark end to search for Florida condo survivors
No hope: Families confront fate of Florida collapse victims
Tropical storm kills 1 in Florida, hurts 10 at Georgia base
Biden meets US civil rights groups to battle voting restrictions
Attacks on US in Iraq becoming dangerous cycle: Experts
Europe’s central bank intensifies focus on climate change
Britain has withdrawn nearly all its troops from Afghanistan: Boris Johnson
Joe Biden says US war in Afghanistan will end August 31
Sports News
Spectators to be banned from Olympic venues; Tokyo under virus emergency from July 12
Tokyo to be under Covid-19 emergency throughout Olympics: Japan PM
Tokyo Olympics: PV Sindhu, Sai Praneeth get easy draws; tough task for Chirag Shetty-Satwiksairaj Rankireddy
Tokyo Olympics: AR Rahman and Ananya Birla collaborate for motivational song for Indian Olympic contingent
Ash Barty beats Angelique Kerber 6-3, 7-6(3) to reach first Wimbledon final, the first Australian woman to reach Wimbledon single finals for 41 years
Former world number one Karolina Pliskova rallies to reach first Wimbledon final, beat second seed Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus 5-7, 6-4, 6-4
That’s selectors call: Sourav Ganguly on no replacement for injured Shubman Gill in England
England face disciplinary probe over laser pen shone at Schmeichel
Dasun Shanaka to replace Kusal Perera as captain for limited-overs series against India: Reports
Sri Lanka batting coach Grant Flower tests positive for Covid-19 ahead of India series
Sri Lanka cricketers’ sign pay deals after board threat
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) forms five-member panel to probe bubble-breach in England
You will see a more confident Yuzi in this serial: Chahal
New-look England thrashes Pakistan in ODI opener, with nine-wicket win
Minor League Cricket unveils Toyota as sponsors of inaugural Championship in USA; 27 teams will vie for $250,000 in prize money
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