Today’s News (14th Nov 2021, Sunday)
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- Published: Sunday, 14 November 2021 04:17
Today’s News (14th Nov 2021, Sunday)
by Annadatha Venkata Murali Manohar
Headlines
PLA, MNPF claim responsibility for Manipur Terrorist attack that killed Colonel Viplav Tripathi, his family & 4 Jawans; Army on alert, keeping close watch on Myanmar Border after Manipur attack sends shockwaves; attackers came from Myanmar; infiltrated 4kms into our area from the border with Myanmar
Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli: In an intense gunfight 26 Naxals killed, 3-4 jawans sustained injuries; dreaded Naxal operative, Milind Teltumbde, (accused in Bhima Koregaon violence case) reportedly killed
Maharashtra: Karjat in Raigad declared Garbage-free City by Union Govt; wet garbage is collected separately from each household, using which biogas is produced
Odisha: 63-year-old donates her property to rickshaw puller within 6 months she lost her husband and daughter
Attack on Assam Rifles convoy in Manipur deserves unreserved condemnation: President Kovind
‘Their sacrifice will never be forgotten’: PM Modi condemns Manipur terror attack
Manipur remains last bastion of active insurgency in northeast
Manipur attack again proves Modi govt incapable of protecting nation: Rahul Gandhi
Madras High Court advocates protest against proposal to transfer CJ Sanjib Banerjee to Meghalaya High Court, write to CJI
Professor Bimal Patel has been elected to the International Law Commission for a five-year term starting January 1, 2023 in a hard-fought election at the UN
Tamil Nadu CM Stalin visits Delta districts, takes stock of havoc by rain; In Chennai sewage stagnates in slum even after rains stop; likely to get relief with moderate rainfall over next 4 days; In Kerala, Orange alert in 6 districts
Kejriwal's 4-step formula for Delhi pollution - schools closed from Monday for a week, Govt offices to WFH; ban on the construction activities; private offices to be issued an advisory for WFH
Arvind Kejriwal calls emergency meeting to tackle air pollution in Delhi
Gujarat Minister on new diktat: Setting up roadside eateries selling non-veg food an act of land grabbing of temporary nature
Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai feature among World's Top 10 polluted cities; cities with the worst AQI indices also include Lahore in Pakistan, and Chengdu in China
14-year-old girl tonsured, Paraded in Gujarat village as 'Punishment' for eloping with man; 22 arrested
Body of Bihar journalist, RTI Activist found burned, tossed by roadside; CCTV footage shows Buddhinath Jha leaving home at 9.58 pm on Tuesday, wearing a yellow scarf around his neck; he walks past a police station and is not seen again
IIT Delhi students apprehensive about Hybrid Mode Exams, raise concerns of non-uniformity
Decoded: CBSE’s new Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) sheets for Class 10 and 12 board exams
Madhya Pradesh: Bhopal’s Habibganj Train station named after Gond Queen Rani Kamalapati, but her Ginnorgarh Fort, which is about 61 km from Bhopal, remains in a dilapidated condition
India criticises fossil fuel language in COP26 draft deal
As COP26 reaches close to final deal, UK urges "Balanced" package to help avert the worst effects of climate change in what is meant to be the Glasgow summit's final hours
India strongly objects to coal and fossil fuel subsidies’ phase-out references in Glasgow text as COP26 enters final hours
Britain’s Sharma urges nations to back draft COP26 deal
Turkey protests COP26 ‘special treatment’ to India
COP26 all set to conclude with accommodating India’s points in the revised Glasgow decision test
Proposed after 26/11, India to finally get maritime coordinator
‘Declare two-day lockdown if need be’: SC to Centre on Delhi air pollution
Why controversy mars judicial officer selection by P&H HC, asks SC
‘Attempts to mislead youth by overpromising should stop’: PM Modi chairs key meet on cryptocurrency
Government concerned over crypto use for laundering, terror
Hindi is friend of all Indian languages, says Amit Shah
‘BJP’s JAM vs SP’s JAM’: Amit Shah, CM Yogi target Akhilesh on home turf
PM Modi thanks Padma Shri awardee Bengal weaver for special sari gift
Bhopal gets spruced up for PM Modi’s Tribal Day visit
Rijiju launches Tele-law app, says govt has decided to expand service to 75,000 gram panchayats this year
Protect India from subversive forces, says NSA Ajit Doval to IPS officers
Khurshid’s remark not appropriate: Former MP of Congress MA Khan
External Affairs Minister Jaishankar visits Dubai Expo; meets counterparts from Slovakia, Cyprus, Luxembourg
Financial & Business News
Majority of Britons support crypto ban to combat climate change: UK government poll
Kazakhstan introduces anti-money laundering legislation on cryptocurrency platforms
Rivian CEO sees annual production capacity of at least 1 million vehicles before 2030
Johnson & Johnson is splitting into two Cos, separating the division that sells Band-Aids and Listerine, from its medical device and prescription drug business
Union Govt releases Rs.8,453.92Cr as health sector grant for rural and urban local bodies of 19 states
ONGC Q2 results: Net profit soars 565% YoY, beats estimate; co to pay Rs 5.5 interim dividend
Auto: Toyota says to develop alternative fuels with other Japanese vehicle makers; Chip freeze leads to 27% plunge in Oct 2021 car sales
NFR official: Railway line connecting NE with Bangladesh likely to be completed by Sep 2022
Corona Updates
World: 253,645,644; Active 19,173,958 (7.56%); Recovery 229,361,512 (90.43%); Vaccinated 7.45BN
India 34,426,774; Active 137,046 (0.40%); Recovery 33,826,483 (98.26%); Vaccinated 1.10BN
A scandal’: WHO says world’s rate of Covid-19 booster shots outstrips poorer countries’ vaccinations; 1 in 3 Americans aged 65 and above has got Covid-19 booster shot
Europe becomes Covid-19’s epicentre again, some countries look at fresh curbs; Dutch Govt orders 3-week partial lockdown amid virus surge
India Covid: 111.95cr vaccine doses administered so far
No Covid-19 test for children under five travelling to India: Health ministry
The health ministry said that the guidelines for international arrivals in India have been reviewed in view of increasing vaccination coverage across the globe and the changing nature of the pandemic; The revised guidelines also state that 15 days must have elapsed since the completion of the Covid-19 vaccination schedule; This standard operating procedure (SOP) shall be valid from November 12 till further orders, the ministry stated
Extended Covishield dosage gap more potent, show studies
UK records 157 Covid deaths, 38,351 cases
German state health ministers call to extend state of emergency as Covid cases soar
US appeals court affirms hold on Biden Covid-19 vaccine mandate
US weekly Covid-19 vaccinations hit highest in nearly six months
Booster dose is a scandal, must stop now: WHO
Extended Covishield dosage gap more potent, show studies
France: 1,202 people in ICU for Covid-19
Berlin: Vienna to start vaccinating 200 children every day, ages of 5 and 11, in pilot project of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine
Merkel calls on Germans to get anti-Covid shots to avoid bad winter
Biden vaccination rules are boosting Covid-19 shot uptake: White House
Delhi records 56 new Covid cases, zero deaths
Kerala reports 6,468 new cases; No of active caseload stands at 1,36,308 which is the lowest in 274 days
Assam records four fatalities and 221 new cases
Bengal registers 872 new cases, 13 fresh fatalities
Mumbai: 92,36,500 people in the metropolis have received the first dose, while 59,83,452 have got the second dose as well.
Mumbai administers first dose to 100 pc beneficiaries
Telangana reported 157 new Covid-19 cases with one more fatality.
State News
Nagpur / Nashik / Aurangabad: Four-day curfew in Amravati after fresh protests over Tripura violence spark communal tension
Disha encounter hearings, Hyderabad: Cop denies he received injured SI’s pistol pouch
Disha encounter hearings, Hyderabad: No lapse, accused escaped after attacking, says cop
Plea on liquor shops quota in HC: Justice K Lakshman of Telangana HC
Hyderabad: GHMC issues 864 TDRs acquire 350 acres
Bhopal: Parents irked as some schools hit pause button on online classes
Madhya Pradesh may cling on to its ‘Tiger State’ stripes despite rising toll
Dozens of applications reach Shah Rukh Khan’s Red Chillies office for the post of Aryan Khan’s bodyguard
Kuwait News
Kuwaiti Interior Minister arrives in Bahrain to participate in the 38th GCC Interiors Ministers Meeting
The official Kuwait Al-Youm newspaper publishes two Amiri decrees regarding amnesty and reducing the sentences imposed on some people. The two decrees included in the newspaper’s issue today, 35 names. Decree No. 202 of 2021 regarding amnesty for the implementation of the remainder of the sentence imposed on
The report for the 2020/2021 fiscal year issued by the State Audit Bureau for the Ministry of Communications revealed the existence of flaws in the oversight of wages and settlements of the postal sector, which may lead to the loss of dues
The Court of Appeals overturned a verdict issued by a lower court which sentenced an expatriate to three-year imprisonment with hard labor, and instead acquitted him of the State Security charges of being associated with suspicious elements and possessing a Kalashnikov firearm.
Government agencies have managed to save about 25 percent of the target for reduction of their expenditures in the budget of the current fiscal year 2021/2022, as the amounts recorded so far have reached about KD 616 million, or about 25 percent out of KD 2.3 billion. This constitutes ten percent of the required target, which is part of the measures aimed to address the depletion of liquidity in the general reserve and find solutions to the budget deficit
MP Ahmed Al-Hamad has submitted a bill on amending Law No. 61/ 1976 to improve the rights granted to women.
The Interior Ministry will organize security campaigns in all regions of Kuwait, with the aim of flushing out illegal residents (those staying illegally without residence permit) saying at the moment there are about 160,000 residents who have not taken advantage of amnesty periods. The ministry sources said there is no intention to grant more amnesty for the residence law violators to leave the country without paying fines.
The residency affairs departments in the six governorates have received verbal orders to stop all transactions related to Sudanese nationality, until further notice, thus raising the number of nationalities prohibited from entering Kuwait without security approvals to 8 - the Lebanese, the Syrians, the Iraqis, the Pakistanis, Iranians, Afghans, Yemenis and the Sudanese
Despite the Cabinet decision granting permission for the issuance of new family entry visas and visit visas for commercial, tourist and official government purposes, its implementation at residence affairs departments in all governorates is moving ahead only at a snail’s pace.
Chairman of the Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) Muhammad Al-Saqer affirmed that Kuwait which has invested in the expertise of the residents who are between 60 and 70, has the right to continue to benefit from this denomination of employees, as international studies have proven the expertise of this group of workers cannot be dispensed with easily.
The last many months have been a harrowing experience for many people in their ‘sixties’ due to the Public Authority of Manpower (PAM) denying work permits to anyone aged 60 and over if they do not hold a graduate degree or diploma; In the meantime, neighboring United Arab Emirates last week approved a new retirement visa scheme, under which expatriates can opt to stay on in the Emirates after they retire. The scheme, approved in a Cabinet meeting chaired by the Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, is said to be in line with UAE’s efforts to achieve even more flexibility in terms of laws and visa requirements.
Public Authority of Manpower (PAM) said the decision for renewal of work permits for those 60 years above who hold only high school certificates is linked to the private health insurance mechanism, which is still to be decided on by the relevant authorities.
A Kuwaiti citizen died on the spot when his car collided with a pole on Saturday morning, in Mangaf
Return of students sets to reveal extent of school furniture ‘crisis’
‘Decrease’ in cost of ticket reservations for maids
As part of the continuous effort to arrest the residency violators, authorities arrested 309 residency violators, including 250 expired residence and 59 with absconding case, last week from 6th November to 12th November. During the period, authorities also arrested 71 drug and alcohol related cases and referred them to the General Administration for Narcotics Control.
The Ministry of Commerce and Industry seized a store in the Salmiya area that manufactured and prepared counterfeit clothes for the purpose of distributing them to sell in the local market.
The Gulf Cooperation Council Commercial Arbitration Center (GCCCAC) registered a record number of trade, real estate, and financial and investment portfolio disputes, as well as witnessed an increase in memberships to the center, during the first-ten months of 2021, between 1 January and 31 October.
The price of a barrel of Kuwait oil fell 33 cents to reach $82.57 a barrel: Kuwait Petroleum Corporation
Two Kuwaiti competitors claim first and third places in the fourth round of the Qatar Desert Rally Championship
The World Aquabike Championship concludes its second round in Kuwait
The Youth Voluntary and Humanitarian Initiatives Forum honours distinguished givers in its sixth annual edition
Al-Budaiwi: Kuwait’s measures to combat Corona succeeded and paid off
Kuwait Airways announces the increase in the number of commercial flights and the re-operation of other flights next month
Agriculture Authority implements the eighth phase of the campaign of greening and afforestation within its agricultural season (2022-2023) by planting 300 seedlings in the capital governorate
Kuwaiti Ministry of Health: 22 new cases of Corona recorded and 30 recovery cases, with no deaths in the past 24 hours
Kuwaiti Salem Al-Sarraf achieves second place in the first round of the Qatar Drifting Championship
Pakistan & Afghanistan News
The Tehreek-e-Labbaik is now a force to reckon with, not just in terms of its street power, but also in terms of its electoral strength. Even the Pakistani Army is wary of using force against it
ISI backing small jihadi outfits in Afghanistan to hinder Taliban, says report
Regaining relevance in Afghan maelstrom with harsh winter, pandemic and famine. The disaster is compounded by inept Taliban government, struggling to find even basic international acceptance
Pakistan: Two soldiers were killed in an exchange of fire with militants during a security operation in the southwest Balochistan state, while two Pakistani policemen were killed and seven people were wounded, including a police official, in two explosions in the north and southwest of the country
One killed as minibus hit by bomb in Afghan capital
Taliban establishes military tribunal to enforce Sharia law in Afghanistan
Pakistan: Two policemen killed, six injured in attacks near Afghan border
Afghan foreign minister rules out presence of anti-Pakistan elements on its soil
International News
Turkey stops flying Syrians, Yemenis & Iraqis to Belarus amid migrant crisis
Syrian migrant found dead on Poland-Belarus Border, crisis toll rises to 11 on both sides since crisis began in the summer
Ahead of Xi-Biden summit, China asks US to stop supporting ‘Taiwan independence’
China's ruling Communist Party approved a rare resolution elevating President Xi Jinping's status in its history, in a move seen as consolidating his authority and likelihood of securing 3rd term next year
4.4 million (3% of nation’s workforce) Americans quit jobs at record pace for second month in row
Magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck a sparsely populated area of Western Australia, from the small town of Marble Bar
Riyadh: The leadership of the coalition forces to support legitimacy in Yemen announces the implementation of 42 operations targeting the mechanisms and elements of the Houthi militias in Serwah and Al-Bayda in Yemen during the past 24 hour and says, ‘The targeting operations included the destruction of 17 military vehicles and the elimination of 186 terrorist elements’
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Africa discusses with the Algerian President the promotion of bilateral relations, the situation in Libya and the Palestinian issue
Qatar: The 9th Ajyal Film Festival concludes with the awarding of the winners
Countries of the world adopt the Glasgow Climate Charter to limit climate change and curb global warming
London: Britain announces the unanimity of the countries of the world to adopt the Glasgow Climate Charter, which includes urgent measures to reduce harmful gas emissions and maintain the level of 1.5 degrees of global temperature as an achievable goal. The President of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) says that the document was approved by 197 representatives’ nation
Putin says Nato drills in Black Sea are serious challenge for Moscow
Report: Woman in Macron defence staff raped by colleague by Elysee Palace
Sudan armed forces deploy ahead of planned anti-coup protests
Paris: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina calls on world leaders to ‘act seriously’ for Rohingyas repatriation to Myanmar
Los Angles: Free at last, Britney Spears calls end of conservatorship ‘best day ever’
Sports News
Mahela Jayawardena, Shaun Pollock, Janette Brittin to be inducted into ICC Hall of Fame before the T20 World Cup final gets underway
It’s a one-off match for us: Kane Williamson on the big final
Wrist and reward as Australia look to Zampa in T20 World Cup final
T20 World Cup Final: ‘Underdog’ tag is not something we control, we focus on our cricket, says Williamson
The Saudi Football Association launches the first edition of the Women’s League