Today's News (16th Aug 2021, Monday)
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- Published: Monday, 16 August 2021 09:57
Today's News (16th Aug 2021, Monday)
by Annadatha Venkata Murali Manohar
Headlines
Afghan: Taliban says it has taken control of Presidential Palace in Kabul; Top Leader Abdul Ghani Baradar likely to be New President; Spokesman says "War Is over; Ghani leaves for Tajikistan; Women ‘Will Have Rights’, Foreigners & moneyed to be safe; With 126 passengers On Board, last Air India lands light; all commercial flights suspended from Kabul airport; US lowers Flag at Kabul Embassy, secures Airport, ATC
Taliban hold all of Afghanistan’s border posts: Officials
Afghanistan crisis: Afghani refugees in India anxious about Taliban advancing
PM Modi I-Day speech: From cooperation through people's participation to J&K Poll promise; Bats for 'Sabka Prayas', calls on 'Can Do' generation to take India forward; Speeches are twice as long as Manmohan Singh's; Vajpayee wrapped up in 30 mins; lauds doctors, scientists for world's largest vaccination drive; mistakenly says freedom fighter Matangini was from Assam in I-Day speech
Google Honours India's First woman Satyagrahi, Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, with a Doodle
Telangana: Top cops Swati Lakra and Sreenivas Reddy get President Police Medal
J&K village Unfurls Tallest National Flag in Kashmir along LAC; Army joins I-Day celebrations; BSF Hoists Flag at remote Naxal Base Mohupadar for 1st time; deep inside jungles Odisha-Chhattisgarh border; BRO Hoists Tricolour at 18,300 ft in Sikkim marking 75th Independence Day
Telangana-based J Ventaka Aditya and M Adarsh Reddy topped JEE twice; achieved a 100 percentile score but have also scored 300 out 300 in JEE Mains
Study finds physical activity protects children from being overweight in adolescence
CJI NV Ramanna criticised the lack of quality debates in Parliament, calling it a sorry state of affairs; laws have a lot of ambiguity. And the courts do not know the object, intent behind enacting of law
In a 1st, Township being built for former Naxalites in Dantewada to give 'Employment; constructed to protect former naxalites as their lives would be in danger if they stayed in their respective villages
PM Kisan scheme saw 61,04,877 failed transactions b/w Feb 1, 2019 - Jun 30, 2021. Of these, only 34% transactions were reverted
Union Govt to SC: Draft Notification on Banning Plastic of less-than-100-micron thickness issued
Ministers meet at Venkaiah’s house to discuss action against MPs involved in Rajya Sabha ruckus
Shillong clamps curfew, bans mobile internet amid violence; CM house attacked, Meghalaya Home Minister Lahkmen Rymbui quits amid violence over police encounter of ex-militant
16 Indian-origin top executives ‘ruling’ tech industry globally
Indian Idol 12 winner: Uttarakhand’s Pawandeep Rajan lifts the trophy; wins a car and Rs 25 lakh cash prize
Curious case of Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter absence: Unlocked but unavailable
Financial & Business News
Ola Electric's much-awaited S1 and S1 Pro e-scooters are here; starting at Rs 99,999 only
Corona Updates
World: 207,978,649; Active 17,161,492 (8.25%); Recovery 186,442,489 (89.65%); Vaccinated 4.70BN
India: 32,225,175; Active 389,542 (1.21%); Recovery 31,403,959 (97.45%); Vaccinated 543.85MN
India logs 36,083 Covid cases, 493 new deaths; active cases up by 2,446; Health Ministry - Lambda variant still being explored and had not entered India yet. For now, it was a ‘variant of interest’
Sri Lanka to import medical oxygen from India amid rise in Covid-19 cases; UK cuts Covid-19 tests’ cost for global travellers, including from India
Maharashtra records 4,797 new Covid-19 cases, 130 deaths; Telangana reports 245 new Covid-19 cases, one death; Bengal reports 12 more Covid-19 deaths, 673 fresh cases; Haryana records one death and 22 fresh cases; Gujarat added 16 new Covid cases; Madhya Pradesh sees 13 Covid-19 cases; J&K reported 97 Covid-19 cases, 2 more deaths in the last 24 hours
Gujarat crossed 4 crore cumulative Covid vaccinations, making it the third state to cross the landmark after Uttar Pradesh (5.7 crore) and Maharashtra (4.9 crore)
Andhra Pradesh extends Covid curfew till Aug 21: PTI
France records 21,172 new coronavirus cases: Reuters
Italy reports 19 coronavirus deaths, 5,664 new cases: Reuters
Telangana govt braces for third Covid wave, ups number of beds & oxygen capacity
Hyderabad: Covid-19 breakthrough infections (infection after being vaccinated) are being reported across many private hospitals in the city, but the severity of the infection is often mild to moderate. On the plus side, no deaths have been reported in vaccinated people thus far
Philippines extends Travel Ban for 10 countries, including India and nine other countries over Delta concerns
State News
A native of Gorigipudi village of Repalle in Guntur District, Hyderabad-based numismatic M Kesava Rao sets up rare display of coins, on the occasion of I-Day
Hyderabad: Transport department officials seize 11 high-end imported cars including Rolls Royce, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, Maserati, for evading road tax
Telangana high court to get more new judges soon
TSRTC gets Rs. 1000 crore from Bank of India, after the govt has given a guarantee
Celebrating 75th I-Day, Karnataka launches 11 ‘Amrith special schemes’
Independence Day 2021: Tollywood actors from Mahesh Babu, Prabhas and Ram Charan to Jr NTR and Rakul Preet Singh celebrate freedom
Shah Rukh Khan shares Independence Day greetings along with a voice note, ‘In this haven of freedom, may our country always be and our children prosper’
This independence day, "India should have freedom from excuses," says Urvashi Rautela
Indian Idol 12 winner Pawandeep Rajan: My mom was crying when I lifted the trophy
Navya Naveli Nanda gives a twist to Amitabh Bachchan's popular song 'Jahan Teri Yeh Nazar Hai' from the film 'Kaalia'
Pawan Kalyan's first-glimpse as Bheemla Nayak from Rana Daggubati co-starrer released
Bigg Boss OTT: Shamita Shetty reveals about carrying the emotional baggage of being recognised as Shilpa Shetty’s sister; “It’s not been easy growing up under that shadow”
Kareena Kapoor Khan opens up on sex during pregnancy, says 'People are not used to seeing mainstream actors talking about these things'
Sai Dharam Tej and Aishwarya Rajesh starrer Republic gets a release date
Late composer Khayyam's wife, singer Jagjit Kaur passes away, their awards and properties to be managed by trust
Nikhil Siddhartha’s next to be a spy-thriller directed by Garry BH
Five arrested in Hyderabad with Alprazolam, clandestine labs unearthed
TRS Malkajgiri MLA M Hanumantha Rao, BJP corporator V Sravan booked in Hyderabad, following accusations that workers of the parties had attacked each other during the hoisting of the tricolor at the I-Day celebrations in Hyderabad
AP Lokayukta justice P Lakshman Reddy urges people to fight corruption
Delhi: Jessica Lall’s sister Sabrina Lall dead, due to prolonged illness
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal promises to bring more government services online
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal inaugurates five flag masts on 75th I-Day
Malls in Mumbai see low footfalls owing to full vaccination rule
Maharashtra: After five months restaurants functioning after 4 pm in Thane
Karnataka has mandated that the passengers coming from Maharashtra should possess a negative RT-PCR report not older than 72 hours irrespective of vaccination status
Hyderabad: With Work from home (WFH) the new normal, demand for villas rises
Hyderabad: In-person classes for those vaccinated first
Hyderabad: CPI Telangana secretary Chada Venkat Reddy demanded that the state govt immediately take up comprehensive survey of land to put an end to litigations
Kuwait News
Kuwait Amir, Crown Prince, Premier congratulate India on Independence Day
Indian Ambassador: We are committed to continuing to expand our strong partnership with Kuwait
Indians in Kuwait celebrated 75th I-Day virtually
Cautious Optimism among policy-makers in Kuwait
Government employees return to work at full capacity after more than 1 and a half year
Kuwaitis security personnel ensure flowing traffic with full return of official work
Epidemiological situation improves, need to remain cautious
The State of Kuwait expresses its sympathy with Lebanon due to foreign explosion of a fuel tank in the town of Al-Talil in the north of the country
The Kuwaiti General Fire Force: The team participating in extinguishing forest fires in Greece returned to the homeland after the end of its mission
Executive-legislative conflict affecting KIA Operations
144,768 vaccination certificates issued abroad approved
The Misdemeanor Court sentenced a man, who pretended to be a woman, to three months imprisonment with bail payment of KD 500 to suspend the sentence
The corpse of an unidentified person which was found near a factory in Amghara with blood traces on the head had been referred to Forensics
Court of Cassation rejects plea to end detention
All government, private schools to reopen on Oct 3
The Council of Ministers will discuss the possibility of allowing direct flights to and from some countries in its next meeting
Young Kuwaiti and his girlfriend arrested for ‘violating’ decency
MP seeks details on ‘Info’ expat workers
Kuwait exits Covid-19 third wave as vaccination campaign accelerates
Kuwait reports 3 Covid deaths, 306 infections
Saudi Arabia extends validity of visit visas until Sept 30
Expats nabbed over money transfers of illegal residents
Kuwait sends emergency medical aid to Lebanon amid growing shortages
Kuwait sends oxygen to Tunisia
Specialized Technical Committee to study request for exemption from vaccination
65 low-income Indians who died of Covid in Kuwait to receive Rs. 1 lakh
Al-Mawashi Co. incurs losses in year’s 1st 6 months
The Tunisian FM expresses his thanks to the State of Kuwait for the arrival of the third plane with the airlift to help Tunisia
The Kuwaiti FM stresses the importance of building a comprehensive diplomatic personality that meets the requirements of the state and responds to the concepts of its foreign policy
The State of Kuwait strongly condemns and denounces the Houthi militia’s continued attempts to threaten the security of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by targeting the city of Najran with a ballistic missile*
The Council of Public Universities approves the proposed numbers that meet the conditions and percentages for admission to Kuwait University for the academic year 2021-2022
The Kuwaiti Ministry of Health determines the mechanism for requesting exemption from the Covid-19 vaccination for citizens and residents whose health condition may prevent them from receiving the vaccination
The Kuwaiti team continues to advance in the Arab Table Tennis Championship in Jordan
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs calls on all Kuwaiti citizens not to visit Afghanistan at the present time as a result of the current security situation, calling on the citizens who are there to leave immediately
Boursa Kuwait announces the suspension of 9 companies from trading until their financial statements are disclosed
Kuwaiti (Interior) Ministry: Intensive security and traffic preparations coincide with the return of full shifts
International News
Haiti Earthquake: 1200 killed, 2,800 injured after horrific tremors; search for survivors on; Hospitals struggle to treat injured in massive Earthquake
Haiti hit by new earthquake with 5.8 magnitude, a day after a more powerful deadly tremor, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC)
South Korea’s Moon Jae-in says open to dialogue with Japan despite history feuds
Biden authorizes deployment of additional 1,000 troops to Afghanistan to help orderly drawdown amidst Taliban surge
The US Secretary of State discusses with the Chairman of the Afghan Reconciliation Council the latest developments in Afghanistan
Joe Biden, Donald Trump trade blame amid American ignominy
Taliban want full power after return to Afghanistan capital
Afghan leaders form council to meet Taliban
Turkey tightens security at Iran border to stop Afghan refugees
Albanian PM: We have no objection to receiving Afghan political immigrants
A fuel tank blast in Lebanon killed 28 people, 80 injured; scalding a crowd that was clamouring for gasoline in the crisis-hit country
Britain calls for two emergency meetings of the Security Council and the NATO Council to discuss the situation in Afghanistan
Canada PM Trudeau announces snap elections for Sept 20 to seek new mandate amid pandemic
Flooded Coal Mine in China's Qinghai kills one, 19 Miners still trapped; 200 Chinese police, emergency workers and experts involved
Malaysia PM Muhyiddin Yassin to resign; end to 17-month Govt; plunging country into fresh turmoil; no clear successor; days of political horse-trading ahead as MPs seek to form a workable coalition
Sports News
India's Tokyo Olympics medallists get cash rewards from Sports Minister Anurag Thakur at IOA event in Delhi
World Archery Youth Champs: PM lauds Indian Contingent for winning 15 Medals; Komalika Bari becomes Junior Recurve World Champion, Men's and Mixed Team also win Gold Medals
Muhammad Ali's legacy continues as Grandson Nico Ali wins Pro Boxing debut
Lord's Test: Ajinkya Rahane, Cheteshwar Pujara help India take 154-run lead on Day 4 before Moeen Ali puts England back on top; England players stepping on ball vs. India sparks "Ball-Tampering" debate
Pakistan vs. West Indies, 2nd Test series, 2021 – 1st Test, Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica: West Indies scrambled a pulsating one-wicket victory over Pakistan; Pakistan see chances slip away; Score: Pak: 1st Innings 217 and 2nd innings: 203; West Indies: 1st Innings: 253; 2nd innings: 168/9; Player of the match: Jayden Seales; Shaheen Shah Afridi 4/50
If players truly believe in Test cricket, they need to appoint Virat Kohli as their spokesperson: Ian Chappell
India vs. England: If you’re scoring runs, you will be in team, says Jonny Bairstow
Legendary former West Indies cricket captain Sir Vivian Richards wishes India on its Independence Day
Germany, Bayern Munich legend Gerd Muller (75), known as Der Bomber (The Bomber), passed away
EPL: Son Heung-min scores winner as Tottenham Hotspur stun Manchester City
Striker Harry Kane was left out of Tottenham Hotspur’s squad for Sunday’s Premier League encounter with champions Manchester City, as speculation about his future at the north London club intensified
Real Sociedad beat by Barcelona four in its opening match in the Spanish League
Liverpool criticises ‘offensive and inappropriate’ chant aimed at Billy Gilmour