News Digest (26th Aug 2021, Thursday)
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- Published: Thursday, 26 August 2021 04:34
News Digest (26th Aug 2021, Thursday)
by Annadatha Venkata Murali Manohar
Headlines
India vs. England: India slump to 78 all out against England in third Test
PM Modi reviews eight projects, ‘One Nation One Ration Card’ scheme
S Jaishankar speaks to UK foreign secretary Dominic Raab
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar speaks with Saudi MoS for foreign affairs, discusses multilateral issues
IAF played crucial role in 1971 war by destroying Pak’s offensive: Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria
‘Slap Uddhav’ dig: Not afraid of anyone, says Union minister Narayan Rane
Over 60 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses administered in India: Govt
India hurries teacher vaccinations as some physical closes resume
Google Doodle celebrates commencement of Tokyo Paralympics 2020 with Champion Island Games
Team India achieved its best-ever performance at the Scrabble Youth World Cup with young guns Madhav Gopal Kamath and Suyash Manchali finishing 2nd and 8th respectively
MiG-21 Bison fighter aircraft crashes in Rajasthan; pilot ejects safely; court of Inquiry has been ordered to ascertain the cause
Student of a university in Mysuru gang-raped, boyfriend thrashed in Mysuru; accused still absconding, yet to be arrested
Union Govt: PSBs have turned profitable; ₹30,000Cr in net profit, meeting requirements on their own; gone to the market and raised about ₹69,000Cr, including ₹10,000Cr equity capital; Hikes Pension Payouts for Families of Bank Employees to 30%; also hikes NPS for employee pensions to 14%
Guwahati-Howrah special train derails in Assam, no casualty reported
Financial & Business News
Samsung says it will invest $206 billion and hire 40,000 people by 2023
Finance minister asks public sector banks to provide assistance to sunrise sectors
Government approves highest ever FRP of Rs. 290 per quintal on sugarcane for 2021-2022
Union Govt approved highest ever Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) for sugarcane farmers at ₹290 per quintal, at a basic recovery rate of 10%, for the 2021 22 season
Indians in US, with AVG household earning $123,700, 79% of college graduates, surpassed overall American population in terms of wealth and college education
Mumbai woman gets back ₹1.01 lakh lost to cyber-fraud in 3 hours with help of cops & bank nodal officers
Xiaomi to buy self-driving tech startup Deepmotion for $77MN; help develop Level 4 self-driving technology, which allows full autonomous driving
BYJU'S valuation pegged at $50BN for IPO by bankers if it lists next year; Backed by SoftBank Vision Fund and Carlyle Group, Delhivery plans $1BN IPO filing in Oct
Sensex hit its fresh all-time high of 56,198.13; Nifty made a fresh peak of 16,712.45 in intraday trade; Gold Price Today Falls for Second Day; Rs 9,000 down from record high.
Nitin Gadkari urges vehicle makers to discourage diesel engines, asks them to promote alternative tech
Maruti Suzuki India Chairman RC Bhargava: Lot of statements made by Govt officials on importance of auto industry, but "no concrete action was taken on ground
Corona Updates
World: 214,693,778; Active 18,195,343 (8.48%); Recovery 192,023,096 (89.44%); Vaccinated 5.04BN
India: 32,557,767; Active 340,325 (1.05%); Recovery 31,781,046 (97.61%); Vaccinated 588.73MN
Onam pushes Kerala’s Covid tally to 3-month high; daily Covid-19 case count crosses 30,000-mark for 1st time since May 20
India’s Covid vaccination graph: 85 days to 10Cr doses; 45 days to 20Cr; 29 days to 30Cr; 24 days to 40Cr; 20 days to 50Cr; 19 days to go past 60-crore mark; State Govts asked to vaccinate all school teachers on priority before Teachers' Day on Sep 5
According to a study, the breast milk of lactating mothers who have received the Covid-19 vaccine contains antibodies that may help protect nursing infants from the illness
No conclusive data yet on need for Covid-19 booster shot, says WHO
Covid-19 in India may be entering some kind of stage of endemicity where there is low or moderate level of transmission going on, chief scientist of the World Health Organisation Dr Soumya Swaminathan said. The endemic stage is when a population learns to live with a virus. It’s very different from the epidemic stage when the virus overwhelms a population.
Telangana: 1.35 crore yet to take first jab as hesitancy remains a concern
State News
Indian Idol 12 winner Pawandeep Rajan announced as Uttarakhand’s Art, Tourism, Culture Brand Ambassador by CM Pushkar Singh Dhami
ED summons Tollywood celebrities Rakul Preet, Rana Daggubati, Ravi Teja and Puri Jagannadh in drugs case
80% Hyderabad homeowners expect up to 10% increase in rates of their property
Glitches in TTD site hold up online darshan ticket sales
Hyderabad: Commuters face hard time as rain floods dug-up roads
Telangana HC: CJ Hima Kohli and Justice B Vijaysen Reddy to examine Kokapet auction
Declare Dalit Bandhu scheme tax-free: Former Telangana Congress minister Mohammed Ali Shabbir
Varun Tej launches the trailer of Srinivas Avasarala and Ruhani Sharma starrer Nootokka Jillala Andagadu
Bigg Boss OTT: Zeeshan Khan gets evicted from the show for getting into a physical fight with Pratik Sehajpal
Emraan Hashmi on Tiger 3: I am not confirming or denying being part of the film
Kuwait & Middle East News
His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishaal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and His Highness Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Prime Minister
His Highness the Crown Prince receives a written message from the Saudi Crown Prince regarding the brotherly relations between the two countries and an invitation to His Highness to join the launching ceremony of the Green Middle East initiative next October
Cabinet holds its extraordinary meeting
MoH to restart non-emergency operations at hospitals
Kuwaiti woman gets jail term over ‘indecent’ videos
Saudi Arabia to allow direct flights of fully vaccinated expats from countries facing ban
Several young men seriously injured in bloody fight
Kuwait Covid-19 community immunity within reach
Industry authority to build industrial cities
Kuwait is the fourth safest Arab Country
Kuwait would soon be on the Green Travel List of European countries
KD 1380 fees for the recruitment of domestic workers
Study suggests 9:30 to 5 working hours for Government offices
Kuwait reports 166 new Covid-19 cases, 2 deaths
Kuwaiti woman shot dead in a car by her relative
Woman wins compensation of KD 40,000 in land fraud
Travel Ban, decision to pull Passport cancelled
Ban lifted on 346 jobs for expats
No to fourth floor in private houses
The repercussions of the COVID- 19 pandemic affected the foreign exchange rate of the two largest economies in the world - the US dollar and the Chinese Yuan.
Onus for absconding on ‘domestics in Bill’
International News
The Pentagon: We evacuated 88,000 people from Afghanistan and a flight every 39 minutes
Afghan: Taliban will reach a peace deal with resistance forces in the Panjshir province soon; Covid vaccinations drop 80%; Afghans in knee-deep sewage wave papers, plead with US forces to enter Kabul airport; Russia preparing to evacuate 500 people from Kabul, its 1st airlift op; China, Taliban hold their First Dialogue
Palestinians wounded by Israeli 14 bullets on Gaza border
UN envoy calls on all concerned parties in Iraq to commit to ‘transparent and fair’ elections
UK: 24 people rushed to hospital after exposure to toxic gas in spa; after two chemicals accidentally mixed together and created chlorine gas
Havana syndrome - hearing piercing sounds, experiencing odd physical sensation, nausea, headache; caused by directed, pulsed radio frequency energy device; due to which Kamala Harris' trip to Vietnam was delayed?
5,000-kg dead fish washed up on shores of large saltwater lagoon in south-east Spain in 9 days; pollution from local farming has degraded the water quality which led to the deaths
Cambridge University documented Seychelles giant tortoise (thought to be vegetarian') hunting, feeding on a bird on Frégate Island; 1st documentation of deliberate hunting in any wild tortoise species
Babita Deokaran - Indian-origin woman, who provided critical info about multi-million-dollar PPE scam, killed in South Africa; shot multiple times through her car door
A massive oil spill caused by leakage from a power plant inside a Syrian oil refinery is spreading along the country's coast; stretching out over 25.5Sq KMs
Indonesia's navy seized oil tanker; wanted by Cambodia on suspicion of stealing 300,000 barrels of crude oil
Sports News
India dismissed for 78 runs; 3rd lowest Test total in England; 9 score in single digits; 3 ducks; England 120/0, both openers 50+
Mick Schumacher wants to leave his mark at Spa on the 30th Anniversary of his father's debut
I would be very upset if my generation is talked about as one which got bullied: Gavaskar to Nasser Hussain
Anderson joins Lyon in dismissing Kohli seven times in Tests