Today’s News (8th Sept 2021, Wednesday)

Today’s News (8th Sept 2021, Wednesday)

by Annadatha Venkata Murali Manohar

Headlines

Datod village between J&K Rajouri & Poonch districts received electricity and road connectivity for the first time in 20 years

Study revealed that preterm infants with higher exposure to their mother's own milk had enhanced cardiac function

Nipah virus in Kerala: 11 contacts of victim symptomatic; Govt zeroing in on ‘Source; contact list has 251 people, 125 out of whom are healthcare workers; 'Wrong Information', says Coimbatore District Collector after he was misquoted on Nipah virus case by ANI; ANI later deletes the tweet

Twins born with joined heads see each other for 1st time after 12 hours surgery in Israel; both recovering well; surgery has been conducted only 20 times worldwide

UP, Firozabad: 105 cases of dengue and viral fever were recorded; No deaths in past 24 hours; Officials to release 25,000 mosquito fish in ponds to tackle Dengue outbreak

Union Govt to increase database of farmers from 5.5 cr to 8 cr by Dec with help of states: Tomar

Zoho CEO's village in Tamil Nadu gets Govt's piped water supply; Every household in the village now has a water connection

Pegasus issue: SC agrees to Centre’s request to adjourn hearing of pleas for independent probe

Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel's father arrested for 'derogatory' remarks against community

I have been placed under house arrest in Srinagar, says Mehbooba Mufti

Rona Wilson granted 14 days bail for father’s last rites

Financial & Business News

Air India owes around ₹250Cr in travel refunds to passengers due to Covid-19 travel restrictions

SEBI banned 85 entities, including Sunrise Asian, from the capital markets for up to one year for manipulating the company's share price

BMW orders batteries worth ₹1.75 lakh Cr; comes after electric cars made up for more than 11% of deliveries in 1st half 2021

Sharp India: Work-from-home, workforce decentralisation push demand for ACs; LED TVs set to clock significant growth

COAI: Trai's suggestion to waive RoW charges for 5 years to significantly reduce network rollout cost

Union Govt to States: Raise captive coal output in a week, utilise imported coal-based plants or face CIL supply regulation

World's richest person Jeff Bezos invests in anti-ageing startup Altos Labs which is offering salaries of $1MN or more to researchers

IAA Munich 2021: Hyundai announces Carbon Neutral Goal to be achieved globally by 2045; VW ID. Life concept makes Global debut

LIC IPO may impact jobs, social spending, Union warns

Cairn to return $700 million to shareholders when India tax row resolved

Cairn accepts $1bn refund offer, to drop cases against India within days: CEO Simon Thomson

Organisations in India project 9.4% salary increase in 2022: Aon survey

Crypto not currency; needs to be regulated as asset: ex-RBI DG Gandhi

Commerce ministry notifies procedure for imports under India-Mauritius trade pact

The gross domestic product (GDP) data revealed that besides the second wave of Covid-19 deficient government spending constrained India’s economic recovery in the June 2021 quarter from the slump of fiscal 2020-2021

A special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court cancels all warrants against Nirav Modi's brother-in-law

L&T Construction bags order for water effluent treatment business

Visa, Innoviti develops stored value debit card for offline payment

In world first, Bitcoin, becomes legal tender in EI Salvador

Tamilnadu Mercantile Bank files IPO papers with Sebi

Videocon Industries case: NCLAT adjourns hearing; stay on resolution plan to continue till Sept 20

Pandemic has drastically altered perception of diagnostics: CEO of SRL Diagnostics

Commerce ministry notifies procedure for imports under India-Mauritius trade pact

Coal India contributes Rs. 75 crore towards NSDF as CSR initiative

Reliance Jio introduces new JioFiber postpaid broadband plans

Corona Updates

World: Confirmed 221,073,261; Total Deaths: 4,574,705; Active Cases: 216,498,556

India: Confirmed: 33,058,843; Total Deaths: 441,042; Recovered: 32,224,937; Active Cases: 392,864

India on Tuesday reported 31,222 daily new Covid cases and 290 deaths

Dr Reddy's starts supply of Sputnik V first doses

Mumbai joins Pune, Thane to return on List of Top 5 Maharashtra districts with most active Covid cases; Kerala HC asks Union Govt to allow 2nd Covishield dose after 4 weeks from First for those who want it early

India aims to ramp up its medical oxygen production capacity to 15,000 tonnes per day before a potential 3rd wave; Covid 3rd wave unlikely if no new variants emerge, says Top Virologist Dr Gagandeep Kang

New Zealand lifts lockdown, barring virus-hit Auckland as 'Game Changer' Delta wreaks havoc

More than 200,000 people have died from Covid-19 in Africa since the start of the pandemic, according to an AFP tally

Britain reports 209 daily deaths from Covid, highest since March

US CDC warns against travel to Jamaica, Brunei, Sri Lanka over Covid-19 cases

Saudi Arabia allows citizens to travel to UAE, Argentina and South Africa

With eye-banking services badly hit by Covid-19, AIIMS study to ascertain its presence in various parts of eye

Last 10 crore vaccine doses administered in just 13 days

Use of non-toxic antivirals developed to treat Covid: Union science and technology minister Jitendra Singh

Lockdown may return if Covid-19 norms violated: Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik

Assam reports 471 new Covid-19 cases, 420 recoveries, and 9 deaths today

Bengal makes RT-PCR test mandatory for people from 7 more countries on arrival

Plea in HC seeks directions to Delhi govt to allow visitors at religious places subject to Covid-19 protocols

Mumbai crosses 1 crore Covid-19 vaccination mark: BMC data

State News

Chhattisgarh CM’s father arrested over anti-Brahmin statements; didn’t seek bail, sent to jail

Father's bust at residence symbol of our love; will never encroach: Chirag Paswan

Fully vaccinated travellers do not require RT-PCR test report to travel to Kerala

Night curfew, stringent curbs on Sunday will be withdrawn forthwith: Kerala CM

Viral fever among children is ragging in Delhi, Noida

Raipur SSP shifted after Christian pastor attacked in police station

Chhattisgarh: Right-wing activists manhandle pastor, 2 others at police station over conversion

Faceless assessment: Govt eases rules for authentication of e-records submission

Protesting farmers tear down PM Modi's poster

Farmers stage sit-in at Karnal mini secretariat

Member of SC-appointed panel on farm laws seeks its report to be made public, says the court has not given attention to it

Rains in parts of Delhi, maximum temperature settles at 33.6 deg C

Delhi records 50 new Covid-19 cases, one death

Over 56,000 get ration under One Nation, one ration card (OONORC) scheme in Delhi

Bigg Boss OTT's Millind Gaba: Salman Khan speaks to contestants and also gives them a chance to explain

Hrithik Roshan and Preity Zinta’s co-star Rajat Bedi booked for hitting man with his car, victim in critical condition

Kareena Kapoor Khan's son Taimur yells at paparazzi, netizens target the actress

Chandigarh gets air-purifier to combat air pollution

East Delhi mayor orders sealing of denim washing plant after ‘irregularities’ pointed by locals

Anganwadi workers protest outside Delhi secretariat, demand hike in wages

BJP can talk to Taliban but not to farmers, says Congress

More than 2/3s in Mumbai’s Covid ICUs are unvaccinated

Police sub-inspector robbed in Delhi's Vasant Vihar

Congress vs. Congress: Will the Grand Old Party survive the battle within?

Kuwait News

A liquidity crisis is eroding the body of most public institutions due to the aggravation of the budget deficit despite the reopening of activities and the gradual return of life to normal, Al Qabas daily reported.

A pan-Gulf Arab media body revealed on Monday a five-year plan aiming to prop up local media across the region, describing the strategy as a “future roadmap.”

Kuwait allow residents under 18 years of age who have not been vaccinated to return to the country, provided they pledge to take the vaccine after arriving. The returnees need to sign an undertaking that they will take the vaccine in Kuwait. It also called for applying institutional and home quarantine whenever necessary and urged the application of health measures.

The Cabinet decided during its meeting headed by His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled to allow sports fans to return to the stadiums with the start of the new sports season 2021-2022

Four direct flights from India landed in Kuwait

Undersecretary of the Ministry of Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy, Eng. Jassim Al-Nouri, said Minister Dr. Mishaan Al-Otaibi, is keen to move forward with the digital transformation plan, which the Ministry of Electricity kick-started more than a year ago to complete all transactions online.

Two days after the operation of direct flights and the big hike in ticket prices, especially on the Cairo-Kuwait route, which touched 500 dinars per ticket (one-way), the cost of ticket saw a downward trend on the same route and member of the Board of Directors of the Union of Tourism and Travel Offices Hussein Al-Sulaiten said the cost of one-way ticket on Cairo-Kuwait route now ranged between KD 350 and KD 370 dinars for mid-September booking, and for end of September he put the price at between KD 300 and KD 330.

Kuwait Police today took a car into custody and referred the family for legal action when a video went viral in which a young boy was seen as driving a luxury SUV car.

In terms of improvement in the epidemiological situation Kuwait topped the GCC countries recording 71 cases yesterday, according to the statistics issued by the Gulf Statistical Center.

The Seventh Meeting of the Joint Working Group on Labour, Employment and the Development of Manpower between the Government of India and Government of the State of Kuwait was held virtually on 07 September, 2021.

A university professor in Kuwait tampered with the grades of a female student just because she refused to marry him. The professor is said to have proposed to the girl but her family turned down his marriage offer. Accordingly, he changed all marks achieved by the student and gave her 'zero' in the subject he had been teaching although she had attended all lectures. The student filed a case against the professor, claiming he intentionally manipulated her marks.

A 39-year-old Indian maid reportedly killed her newborn son with a kitchen knife in her Kuwaiti sponsor’s house soon after giving birth, local media reported.

The inspection teams of the Domestic Labor Recruitment Department at the Public Authority for Manpower carried out a series of inspection campaigns on the offices and agencies of recruiting domestic workers in different regions of the country, after complaints were received that some of them did not comply with the price set by the Ministry of Commerce, which is set at 890 dinars.

The Indian ambassador to the country, Sibi George, revealed that more than 5,000 Indian citizens enter Kuwait weekly after the move to open direct flights between the two countries, expressing hope that the number will rise in the near future after the airport’s capacity is increased.

The Public Relations and Media Department of the Kuwait Fire Service stated that the authority closed 5 facilities in Jahra Governorate for violating fire and safety measures.

Arabic speaking staff from Indian Embassy will be deployed at Domestic labour Office (DLO) to facilitated Indians nationals.

Kuwait ranked seventh on the list of the American newspaper Wall Street 24/7, among the 15 largest countries that control oil and its reserves in the world.

The Ambassador of the State of Kuwait to Austria hosts a dinner in honour of Al-Ghanim, in the presence of Ban Ki-moon and the former President of Austria

Kuwait Olympic football team beats its Palestinian counterpart 1-0 in a friendly match

The Kuwaiti Ministry of Education determines the mechanism for the return of learners to study seats, according to certain regulations

The Speaker of the Kuwaiti National Assembly submits a proposal to form a committee to examine the file of misuse of social media platforms without compromising the values of freedom

Kuwaiti Ministry of Health: 83 new cases of Corona were recorded, 196 recovered, and one death was recorded during the past 24 hours

The Bahraini monarch expresses his pride in the solid brotherly relations and bilateral cooperation with the State of Kuwait

The State of Kuwait presents the Kingdom of Bahrain with a commemorative coin to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the Cooperation Council for the Arab

The Ministry of Defense receives a written message from his Turkish counterpart, including an invitation to visit Turkey

The Minister of Information chairs the second meeting of the Supreme Committee to follow up on digital transformation procedures in the ministry and its affiliates

The Speaker of the Kuwaiti National Assembly submits a proposal to form a committee to examine the file of misuse of social media platforms without compromising the values of freedom

Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior: Implementation of the electronic bracelet project comes to achieve the lofty goal of rehabilitating the convicts to return as good members of society

Afghanistan News

The Taliban on Tuesday evening announced the new government. Mullah Hasan Akhund will be the acting PM in the new government while Mullah Baradar will be his first deputy

Afghan: Taliban asks former members of Afghan forces to rejoin Govt services; Taliban finalise its Leadership; Doha team out, Hasan Akhund to be Head of State aided by 2 Deputies

Taliban disperse Kabul rally, arrest journalists

Two killed in anti-Taliban protest in Herat

Protesting airstrikes in Panjshir, people throng Kabul streets chanting ‘death to Pakistan’

Hundreds of men and women shouting slogans such as 'Long live the resistance,' and 'Death to Pakistan' marched in the streets to protest against the Taliban and what they called interference in Afghanistan's affairs by neighbouring Pakistan.

Pakistani Taliban intensifies terror attacks after Afghanistan takeover

UN says basic services in Afghanistan are collapsing

India provides refuge to former Afghan governor, 4 others

No Afghan protestors outside UNHCR office now, police tell Delhi HC

West Delhi gurudwara shelters 44 Afghan Sikhs who were among those evacuated from Afghanistan

International News

Using spoon to dig hole, 6 militants escape from 1 of Israel's most secure Gilboa prisons triggering a massive manhunt

Guinea coup leader (of army unit) bars Govt officials from leaving country; they should hand back their official vehicles; mining area curfew lifted

Ahead of Polls Russia blocks jailed Kremlin Critic's voting site that instructed supporters how to vote out candidates from the ruling party in polls

Singapore: Robots Xavier, deployed in public areas to detect bad social behaviour - flouting of Covid-19 safety measures, smoking in prohibited areas and the improper parking of bicycles

22-acre Scottish island with no people on it goes on sale for over £50,000; has porpoises, dolphins, whales and basking sharks; has cliffs, coves, a shingle beach, surrounding waters allow watersports

Howard University renames fine arts college after Chadwick Boseman who passed away last year aged 43 while battling colon cancer, graduated from Howard in 2000

Saudi Arabia: Allowing citizens to travel and lifting the suspension of entry from the Emirates, South Africa and Argentina

White House asks Congress for urgent funding of billions of dollars to cover Afghan resettlement

Doha gives the Afghan Girls Robotics team the opportunity to study at Education City in Qatar

US President: We are at a turning point in the climate change crisis

White House: Recognition of the Taliban government depends on the steps it will take

Turkish President: We are ‘carefully’ following the formation of the Taliban interim government

Ramallah: The Palestinian Prisoners Club says that the occupation prisons administration has begun to break up collective ‘punitive’ measures against the prisoners after six prisoners managed to escape from the Israeli Gilboa prison

We are keen on the Civil Aviation confidentiality of passengers data and will not be traded in any way

United Nations: Supporting the Iraqi authorities to conduct credible and widely recognized elections

Saudi Arabia records 8 deaths and 138 new infections with the Corona virus

A report by the European Tax Monitor showed that European banks have not reduced their presence in tax havens in recent years, despite scandals that exposed the questionable practices of multinational companies to evade taxes

Sports News

Carlos Alcaraz, 18, youngest to reach US Open Men's Singles Quarters in Open Era

Neeraj Chopra signs first set of endorsement deals (Byju’s, Tata AIA Life Insurance & Pharma Firm) after Olympic gold, endorsement fee jumps 10X

IPL 2021: There would be jitters in CSK and RCB players’ minds, feels Parthiv Patel

Yashasvi Jaiswal says having played in UAE-like conditions in Oman will help in IPL

Dinesh Karthik confident of KKR qualification for IPL playoffs

IPL 2021: We’re very much in contention, says KKR opener Shubman Gill

IPL: Maxwell will join RCB camp in Dubai in ‘two or three days’, says Hesson

Consider Wrestler-turned-Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters also for national sports awards, urges Ritu Phogat, daughter of famous wrestling coach Mahavir Singh Phogat

Fans vote for Shardul Thakur as man of the match for India’s 4th Test against England

India vs. Englan, 4th Test: Shardul Thakur should have been part of Man of the Match as well, feels Rohit Sharma

India vs. England: Shardul Thakur’s contribution is massive, reckons Jasprit Bumrah

India vs. England, 4th Test: Oval surrender exposes England’s frailties, say former captains

India vs. England: Virat Kohli has highest number of Test wins in SENA countries as Asian captain

Stop worrying about team selection and other nonsense: AB de Villiers to fans after India’s Oval win

Buttler, Leach return to England squad for final Test against India

India laid bare England’s deficiencies: Michael Vaughan

India vs. England: Credit to Virat Kohli and team, they know how to fight back, says Chris Silverwood

Stokes likely to miss England’s T20 World Cup bid

T20 World Cup: Indian selectors face problem of plenty

Fakhar Zaman, Sarfaraz Ahmed left out of Pakistan’s 15-member squad for T20 World Cup

It isn’t easy to regain muscle memory for tournaments after Covid induced break: Pankaj Advani

First Beach Teqball National Championship to act as selection ground for Indian team for Asian Beach Games

Boxing Federation seeks three-month extension for foreign coaches; review after that

National Boxing gold-winners to make team for World Championships; Head Guards brought back

Tokyo Olympians set to skip National Boxing Championships