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- Published: Saturday, 07 August 2021 06:51
News Digest(7th August 2021, Saturday)
by Annadatha V Murali Manohar
Tokyo Olympics
Indian team become Asia's fastest to run men's 4x400m relay, fail to reach Olympic final, finish 4th place
Cheptegei misses Olympic record by half a second in men's 5,000m clocking 12:58.15; 2nd time: record is 12:57.82
Medal lost but history made by women’s hockey team, golfer Aditi in line for historic podium finsh
We will win next time, say proud families of India’s women hockey players
Wrestler Bajrang Punia loses to Azerbaijan’s Haji Aliyev in semi-final, to compete for bronze
Jamaican women underline sprint dominance with big relay win
Italy win first ever Olympic men’s 4x100 metres relay title
Italy’s Busa wins gold medal in men’s karate -75kg kumite
Serbia’s Prekovic wins gold medal in women’s karate -61kg kumite
China’s Liu wins women’s javelin with first throw
All eyes on Neeraj to end India’s 100-year wait for Olympic medal in athletics
Feels great to be at the top with legends on Mary Kom and Vijender Singh, says Lovlina Borgohain
Deepak Punia’s coach Murad Gaidarov’s accreditation terminated by IOC, after he ‘yelled’ at a referee after the wrestler’s game in the ongoing Tokyo games
Naveen Patnaik: The silent custodian of Indian hockey
Headlines
Louis Vuitton chief Bernard Arnault overtakes Jeff Bezos to become world’s richest
PM Modi interacts with heads of Indian missions abroad on ‘local goes global’
Khel Ratna Award to be renamed Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award
Congress welcomes Khel Ratna Award renaming, accuses PM of playing ‘myopic politics
Gaganyaan astronaut-elects India training from Sept
JEE-Mains results announced; 17 candidates score 100 percentile
Real Hero: Bus hangs from cliff in Himachal, driver controls it until all passengers are rescued; technical snag reportedly damaged a tyre and caused the bus to slide
India, China pull out troops from Gogra in Ladakh; 3rd disengagement in Region; Ladakh removes Inner Line Permit restrictions for tourists
LAC: India, China complete Gogra disengagement, but Depsang remains a major problem
India rejects OIC’s J&K reference as ‘unacceptable’
ED summons PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti’s mother in money laundering case
No live-in relationship at cost of country’s social fabric: Allahabad HC
Rs. 5.05 crore approved for families 101 journalists who succumbed to Covid: Government
Opposition leaders join protesting farmers at Jantar Mantar
1 lakh green cards at risk of going waste in US; Indian, Chinese nationals file lawsuit; In 2021 the quota for green cards was reportedly raised from 1,40,000 to 2,61,500
At UNSC Meet on Afghanistan, India's veiled dig at Pak: 'Those supporting terrorists must be held accountable
Peace Mission-2021: Indian Army will be conducting air reconnaissance and protecting facilities during the joint drills with the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the Pakistan Army
Decision to get rid of retro tax shows govt’s commitment, policy consistency: PM Modi
Tap opportunities in post-Covid world to take exports to $400 billion: PM Modi
IAF Chief flies Sortie in F-15 Fighter Jet in Israel, discusses military ties with counterpart
ED files Money laundering case in fake Covid testing during Kumbh; conducts raids Novus Path Labs, DNA Labs, Max Corporate Services, Dr Lal Chandani Labs Pvt Ltd, Nalwa Labs & residences
1st such case: A man in Rajasthan's Jaipur died possibly due to cardiac arrest after his Bluetooth headphone device exploded while he was on a call
No vehicle carrying goods or passengers entered Mizoram despite neighbouring Assam lifting the travel curbs
Twitter welcoming Khel Ratna Award renaming after sports personalities reminds Govt Narendra Modi Stadium
Stolen Indian card details in largest slice of database released on Dark Web by cybercriminals
221 Judicial, Technical member posts lying vacant in Tribunals: SC seeks Union Govt reply; may summon the top officials to give reasons for not appointing peoples in these quasi-judicial bodies
Application backlog: Beware of anyone offering visa appointment for a fee: Emmanuel Lenain, ambassador of France to India
ED raids former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh’s residence
Two-term MLA & former Social Welfare Goa minister Mahadev Naik joins AAP in Delhi
Financial & Business News
Appointed permanent officers in compliance of new IT rules, Twitter tells HC
Tata Advanced Systems to make Boeing 737 fan cowls; to supply 50% of total Boeing requirements from India
SBI, PNB, others offer Rs 5 Lakh collateral-free loan at low interest rate, Moratorium; no E-way Bill from Aug 15 for those who have not filed GST
Low interest rates to boost business confidence: Industry welcomes RBI’s monetary policy
RBI monetary policy raises more questions than answers; was asked why RBI taken step of increasing liquidity withdrawal operations variable rate reverse repos from Rs 2 lakh crore to Rs 4 lakh crore
Consumer confidence remains weak but future expectations turn optimistic: RBI report
There’s nothing alarming about rise in MSME bad loans: RBI
Forex reserves surge by $9.42 billion to all-time high of $620.57 billion
Supreme Court says arbitration order stopping Future’s $3.4 billion retail deal valid
Intend to pursue ‘all available avenues’ to save deal with Reliance: Future Retail
Future Retail-Reliance deal: Big win for Amazon in SC
Rane Holdings posts Rs. 21 crore Q1FY22 PAT
Actions against HDFC Bank, Mastercard driven by keenness to ensure compliance of norms: Shaktikanta Das
City Union Bank Q1 net profit rises 12%
Corona Updates
World: 202,353,791; Active 16,201,769 (8.01%); Recovery 181,862,422 (89.87%); Vaccinated 4.36BN
India: 31,894,483; Active 418,929 (1.31%); Recovery 31,048,153 (97.35%); Vaccinated 495.33MN
Serum Ins: Hope to launch Covovax vaccine for adults in Oct, for kids in Jan-Feb; TN extends curbs till Aug 23; places of worship shut for devotees on 3 days every week
Study: Unvaccinated people are more than twice as likely to be reinfected with Covid-19 as the fully vaccinated
Union Govt: 3.56 Crore Covid-19 vaccines bought by private hospitals till Aug 2; Over 2.3 crore Covid vaccines available with states, hospitals
Bahrain records 11 new cases of Coronavirus
United Airlines makes Covid-19 shots compulsory for US Employees
Ignoring WHO call, Germany & France to offer booster jabs
Delta sweeps Sydney as Australia widens restrictions
China pledges 2 billion vaccines globally through year’s end
CNN fires three employees for coming to work unvaccinated
India’s daily Covid-19 cases at one-week high of 44,643; deaths 464
Early signs Covid-19 vaccines may not stop Delta transmission, says England
Johnson & Johnson applies for Emergency use authorization of its single-dose Covid vaccine in India
136 crore Covishield, Covaxin doses to lead India’s vaccination drive during August-December
Russia records about 463,000 excess deaths in pandemic: Reuters
India’s fight against Covid receives strong impetus: PM as vaccination numbers cross 50 crore
Maharashtra reports 5,539 new Covid cases, 187 deaths; Sikkim reports 126 new cases, one more fatality; Karnataka reports 1,805 fresh cases, 36 deaths; Manipur reports 742 new cases, 14 deaths; Uttarakhand reports 29 new cases, zero deaths; Kerala reports 19,948 new cases, 187 deaths; Delhi reports 44 new cases, 5 deaths in the last 24 hours
Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya meets Adar Poonawalla, discusses Covid vaccine supply ramping up
Scientists from India, China, Russia and Brazil will carry out genomic sequencing of novel coronavirus, and also studies on epidemiology and mathematical modelling of Covid-19 pandemic, says official statement
Lockdown in Tamil Nadu extended till August 23rd. The offering of prayers by common public in all places of worship is banned on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays
India’s Covid R-naught tops 1 again, up from 0.9 a month ago
State News
Gurugram: CBI arrests man for posing as NHAI chairman
Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) advises Covid surveillance, advanced sero-survey
Delhi riots case: HC seeks all status reports from police on Tahir Hussain’s bail plea
Delhi court sentences priest to life imprisonment for raping two minor girls
Uttar Pradesh: Women manufacture flowerpots with the help of old bedsheets and sarees in UP’s Pratapgarh
Uttar Pradesh: Girl raped by teenage boys in Pratapgarh
Amir Khan and filmmaker Rajkumar Hirani join Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on for launch of new film policy
Indian women's hockey coach thanks Shah Rukh Khan for his support; says, 'It's time for Chak De part 2'
Kishore Kumar's fans demand conversion of his ancestral house into national heritage
Sherlyn Chopra questioned in Raj Kundra pornography case, says she wants justice for victims
Yo Yo Honey Singh breaks silence on accusations of domestic violence, sex with multiple women by his wife Shalini Talwar: I am deeply pained and distressed
Sonu Sood surprises Srinagar street vendor at his stall; jokes 'he will give you a discount if you take my name'
Kuwait News
Representatives of His Highness the Amir delivers a written message from His Highness to the Iranian President
Kuwait Amir’s Envoy, Foreign Minister and State Minister for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Dr. Ahmed Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Sabah meets Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar, in Tehran
Representatives of His Highness the Amir of the country and the Minister of Foreign Affairs meets with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bolivia on the sidelines of his official visit to Iran
Ministry of Health: 596 new Corona cases and 5 deaths recorded
Kuwait likely to implement Value Added Tax (VAT)
Jahra Municipality lifts abandoned cars, scrap
Students return to schools in Sept sure; plan gets nod
The conclusion of the first round of the second edition of the Kuwait Motoserve Championship
The Kuwaiti Red Crescent hands over ambulances as a gift to the Lebanese Red Cross
Artificial intelligence robots grab the attention at the Tokyo Olympics
Kuwaiti Customs seizes 1.5 kilos in cartons of fruits coming from Iran by air freight
The Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior, in cooperation with the Ministry of Health, launches a campaign to vaccinate its employees working in its main building in the Sabhan area against Corona
Ministry of Interior: With the passing of Intisar Al-Sharrah, we lost one of the pioneers of art, theatre and drama in Kuwait
Kuwaiti foils maids attempt to escape from her sponsor’s house in Sabha Al Ahmad City
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia discuss boosting cooperation at Oil-rich Joint Zone
The representative of the Queen of Britain hands the international sword shield presented in the name of Kuwait during the graduation of a new batch of the Royal Military Academy
International News
Venezuela to slash 6 zeros from currency
Tunisian President says there is ‘no turning back’
Fallen without a fight': Taliban captures Afghan Provincial Capital in blow to peace efforts
Wildfires burn California: After River, Dixie blaze turns town to ashes, leaves trail of destruction
ClimateChange 2021: The Physical Science Basis - 195 countries approved a critical UN science report that will provide most comprehensive & up-to-date assessment yet of the state of Earth’s climate
How would have Muslims felt if Mosque was demolished?': Pakistan SC on attack on Hindu Temple comes down heavily on authorities; pulled up them for inaction
Attack on Hindu temple in Pakistan is unacceptable, un-Islamic, immoral, unethical, inhumane and unconstitutional act of vandalism, says Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) party founder, Altaf Hussain
Pakistan deploys paramilitary forces after Hindu temple attacked by mob
NASA Mars Rover begins collecting rock in search of Alien Life; will collect rock samples to be picked up by future missions for analysis by scientists on Earth.
Australia will not bow to Chinese demands to restart talks: Foreign Minister
Data raises concerns as Brazil’s forest fire season begins
Survivors of acid attacks in Mexico unite to push for change
Typhoon Lupit makes landfall in China’s Guangdong; over 33,000 evacuated
Quarantine wary foreigner tries to enter Indian and other diplomatic missions in Beijing
China appoints new military commander in restive Xinjiang
China slams US offer of safe havens for Hong Kong residents
Israeli occupation plane launch raids on targets in the Gaza Strip
Hezbollah says fired rockets after Israeli airstrikes
The Algerian and US foreign ministers discuss prospects for developing bilateral relations and common security issues
The United States of America condemns the assassination of Dawa Khan Menapal, the director of the Afghan State Information Center and stresses that these actions do not earn the Taliban movement international legitimacy
Thousands rally across Afghanistan to protect Taliban offensive; chant ‘Allahu Akbar’
US wants Pak to keep border open for Afghan refugees
UN says Afghan war has entered ‘deadlier, more destructive phase’
US President: The United States achieved its fastest economic growth in 4 decades
Egypt: The transfer of the archaeological (sun boat) from the pyramids to the Great Museum
Baghdad: Suspending Iraqis travel to Belarus and opening an investigation into their smuggling from there to Europe
Rome: The foreign ministers of the Group of Seven and the EU condemn the attack on an oil tanker off the coast of Oman last week and say all evidence “clearly points” to Iran’s responsibility for the attack
New York: The UN announces that its Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed Swedish diplomat Hans Grundberg as his special envoy to Yemen, to succeed Martin Griffiths.
The Tunisian Ministry of Interior places the former Minister of Communication Technology and a leader in the Ennahda Movement, Anwar Maarouf, under house arrest, according to local media
The city of Zaranj, the capital of Nimroz province, located in southwestern Afghanistan on the border with Iran, falls to the Taliban militants, to be the first capital of a state in Afghanistan to fail to the movement since the United States announced the complete withdrawal from Afghanistan after two decades of operations military in the country
News reported say that Greece has carried out mass evacuations of thousands of people in the northern suburbs of the capital Athens and on the nearby island of Evia, after strong winds caused raging forest fires
Town burns to ashes in raging Northern California wildfire
Saudi case against Twitter user may have its root in US
Lebanon’s Mikati report progress, albeit slow, towards forming government
About 2 million dehumidifiers recalled in US, possible fire hazard
Schools reopen with masks optional in many US classrooms
Huawei exec back in Canada court over US extradition request
Sports News
Bangladesh beat Australia by 10 runs in the third T20I in Dhaka to seal their first ever series win over their opponents in any format
3rd T20I: Nathan Ellis claims hat-trick against Bangladesh on Australia debut
Jadeja joins Kapil Dev, Imran Khan in elite list with gutsy fifty; complete the double of 2000 runs and get 200Wkts in Tests
Anderson overtakes Anil Kumble (619) to become 3rd highest wicket-taker in Test; registered figures of 23-8-54-4 in India's 1st innings; takes his tally of wickets to 621; Muralidharan 800 wickets
The Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) announced on its website that it plans to commence the Kanga League, Mumbai’s traditional monsoon cricket tournament, from Aug 29, subject to state government permissions regarding resumption of team sports