Today’s News (8th Sept 2021, Wednesday)
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- Published: Wednesday, 08 September 2021 01:34
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