11-06-2021 News Headlines

11-06-2021 News Headlines


- by AVM

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Kolkata scientist Dr Ramendra Lal Mukherjee invents pocket ventilator to aid Covid-19 patients; safe alternative at times when there has been a sudden spike in cases of Black fungus

Hyderabad: Indian Institute of Chemical Technology licences 2-DG process knowhow to Lee Pharma

Municipal officer Suvidha Chavan enters manhole to inspect cleaning work in saree in Thane

Buzz of rejig in Lucknow and Delhi as Yogi Adityanath meets Amit Shah

May Records Second Highest Rainfall in 121 years attributing two back-to-back cyclones and western disturbances for the record precipitation

Patna Cops attacked by liquor mafia’s family for trying to conduct raid at their house; managed to free the mafia Vikas Kumar from the custody of the police

Missing for 11 years, Kerala woman found living secretly with lover in house next door in just 500Mts away

Never met him: 2 UK desis refute Mehul Choksi’s claim of abduction

BSF apprehends Chinese national with Bangladesh Visa along India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal

Massive fire breaks out in J&K's Baramulla, at least 20 houses engulfed in flames

The minimum support for price (MSP) for paddy has been by Rs 72 per quintal to Rs 1,940 for the crop year 2021-22 by the Union Govt

At 6,499 MW, Delhi records highest power demand this summer so far; daily peak power demand has increased by over 10% in 48 hours and over 40% from June 1

If loyalists don’t believe in Rahul Gandhi, why will Indians?

HC gives govt 2 weeks to cap pvt hospital charges

18% more women in higher education in 5 years

Air India sacks cabin crew for gold bars smuggling at London Heathrow

Former Noida SSP Vaibhav Krishna gets new role, posted in training

GST Council to decide on O2, concentrates tax tomorrow

Financial & Business News

Indian-American organisations looking at long-haul support for India’s healthcare infrastructure

RBI allows banks to charge Rs 21 for post limit ATM transactions from Jan 2021; ATM interchange fee from ₹15 to ₹17 effective August 1

Organisations align hiring to scale up for operational roles amid pandemic; According to Indeed's India Hiring Tracker Q4 FY21, as many as 64% of all employers surveyed hired talent during 4th Qrtr of 2020-21

Retiring old coal plants can help Maharashtra save Rs 16,000Cr in five years; savings can go up to Rs 75,000Crore over a decade

Union Govt to auction unmonetised large oil and gas fields of ONGC and Oil India (OIL) to boost India's hydrocarbon production

IKEA to help suppliers in India, 2 other markets transit to 100% renewable power

Data consumption rose 17.5% in FY21 to around 12.2 GB per user per month in FY21 despite rise in tariffs as vast swathes of India’s corporate workforce worked from home during the Covid first wave

India slips 12 spots to 55th position in global home price movement; been a 1.6$ decline in home prices

74% Indian workers keen on flexible remote work options: Microsoft

Does money grow on volcanoes? El Salvador explores Bitcoin mining

Second Covid wave will delay air traffic recovery to end of FY23: Crisil

World’s richest face tax squeeze after 40% run-up in fortunes

Cost-effective, clean, and optimized freight transport system key for India’s growth: Report

Covid-19: Paytm, MakeMyTrip, Infosys offer to help govt with vaccine bookings

Corona Updates

India has reported 94,052 daily new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the country's tally to 2,91,83,121. With 6,148 deaths, India's death toll from the virus stands at 3,59,676. Meanwhile, 2,76,55,493 people have recovered from the virus and the active caseload is below 12 lakh after 60 days.

Daily cases have fallen below 1 lakh in India over the last days. The country, however, is still reporting the most cases globally

Consortium of 4 cities funded for enhanced genome surveillance

RR Foundation – an organisation set up by NRI businessman Ravi Pillai is providing a funding of Rs. 15 crore fund to support Covid victims’ families

Health experts to PM: No need to vaccinate those who’ve had Covid; review ‘liberalised’ policy

Meril received nod from ICMR for its indigenous Covid-19

Curbs to continue in 11 Karnataka districts; Maharashtra sees slight spike in new cases & more

Maharashtra achieves vaccine milestone, vaccinates 2.5 Cr people, highest in the country; Jharkhand tops in Covid-19 vaccine wastage; Kerala, West Bengal report Negative wastage

'Cause of serious concern': Union govt points out low vaccination coverage among Healthcare, Frontline workers

Agra hospital sealed, owner booked

*India close to giving Indemnity to Foreign Vaccine makers like Pfizer; "If one company gets it then all of them get it."

UK, Indian Scientists Develop Low-cost Sensor to detect fragments of the virus responsible for Covid-19 within wastewater; uses standard PCR test without need ; hybrid work will define the post-pandemic workplace

Union Govt: Data of about 15 Crore Indians on CoWIN Portal safe, leak Reports fake

Ramdev changes his mind, says will take Covid Jab; calls Doctors God's Envoys

WHO warns Delta Variant taking hold in Europe as Nations prepare to ease curbs; Biden, his Advisor Dr Anthony Fauci warn against Delta Variant

Covid vaccination in Europe ‘far from sufficient’ to avoid resurgence: WHO

9,429 died': Bihar's revised figures shocking before AIIMS Report on Kids' Covaxin Trial; till the previous day stated the number of deaths to be under 5,500

France's Macron calls for Vaccine makers to donate 10% of doses

NASA shares spectacular image of Galaxies merging 140 Million Light-Years from Earth

15 state agencies, Cos have sought Union Govt approval to provide online Covid-19 vaccine bookings

67-yr-old Hardayal Singh who planted 10,000 trees across Punjab's Dhablan village for oxygen dies of Covid after 'gasping for breath'

UK: G7 to provide 1 Billion Covid vaccine doses "To World" by 2023 through sharing and financing schemes

Govt aims generating 5K tonnes of medical oxygen at hospitals

Finance ministry proposes 24/7 vaccination drive to revive economic growth

Problems at biggest vaccine maker leave world short on Covid shots

Jharkhand says only 1.5% Covid vaccine wastage, 33.95% figure is ‘old data’

In 22 districts of Karnataka, rural Covid-19 case tally overruns urban

CoWin to block users logging 1k+ searches, 50 OTPs in 24 hours

Black fungus drug to be available at Ghaziabad CMO office

World: 175,600,109 Recovery 159,448,357 (90.80%) Active 12,363,623 (7.04%)

India: 29,273,338; Recovery 27,778,894 (94.89%) Active 1,131,347 (3.86%)

State News

Jharkhand cancels Class 10, 12 state board exams; Hyderabad schools newly-affiliated with CBSE hit scoring hurdle

Karnataka govt plans to unlock state in 4-5 phases from June 14

Telangana records 1,798 new Covid-19 cases, 14 deaths

CIDCO moves to fast-track Navi Mumbai airport area development

Over 95% realtors fear project delays due to second Covid wave, seek urgent relief

Only 10 health staff per 10,000 in Telangana: Niti Ayog report

Delhi: 19 oxygen plants to open in city by end of the week

Delhi unlock news: Home Delivery of liquor allowed from today

Veteran filmmaker Buddhadeb Dasgupta dies in Kolkata: From Sameera Reddy to Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Bollywood mourns tragic loss

Dubbing artiste and singer Ghantasala Ratnakumar passes away

Raju Srivastav offers help to lookalike actors of Bollywood

Telangana: Man lodges police complaint about rooster theft

Telangana: State to provide free education to 200 Covid orphans, jobs for widows

GO on Jowar MSP soon: Telangana to High Court

Telangana HC strength goes up to 42, vacancies to touch 28

Telangana: Ahead of digital land survey, revenue department gets 20,000 plaints

Andhra Pradesh: Fire breaks out near Kaza toll gate in Mangalagiri in the Guntur district

Nandamuri Balakrishna celebrates his birthday with staff

LPG consumers can choose dealers for refill delivery

Marriage with Nikhil Jain not legal, our separation happened long back: TMC MP Nusrat Jahan

Kuwait News

Kuwaitis, expats flock to get second dose of Astrazeneca

Direct flights to London set to resume

30 vaccination centres open from 3 pm to 10 pm

Kuwaiti humanitarian friendship society helps pay medical expenses of expatriates

Kuwait ranks low in FM Global resilience index for ‘21

Kuwait may burn more crude oil this summer to meet electricity demand

Okays on AstraZeneca; 1,709 more infected

Defense ministry to hire children born to Kuwaiti mothers, Bedoun

Health regulations committee closes 5 stores in Mubarak Al-Kabeer

Ministry of justice revealed 80,000 Travel Bans issued against Kuwaiti citizens and expats in 2020

International News

Macy’s July Fourth fireworks show will be back this year

Sameer Honda and Sergeant Gurpreet Arora of the NZ Police, two New Zealanders of Indian-origin honoured in Queen’s birthday Honours list 2021

Issue Visas to students who complied with your vaccination guidelines: India to China

One in two Indian-Americans say they face bias, even as many import their own prejudices into US

With focus on reasserting fight against climate change, G7 leaders to meet in Cornwall

US annual consumer price inflation jumps 5% in May: Government

Ex-Mossad chief signals Israel behind Iran nuclear attacks

Pakistan National Assembly adopts bill to give Right of Appeal to Kulbhushan Jadhav in the HC of the country

24 air passengers quarantined in Pakistan after trained dogs identify them as Covid-19 carriers

Two Pakistani politicians abuse each other on live TV show

‘Jabs in arms till Covid’s defeated’: Joe Biden says US to buy 500 million vaccine doses for poor Indians

Biden to lay out Covid-19 vaccine donations, urge world leaders to join

Colorado reports first litter of wolf pups in 80 years

FBI director suggests ‘serious charges’ coming in probe of Capitol attack

Florida bans ‘critical race theory’ from its classrooms

Senators eye $579 billion in new infrastructure spending, $1 trillion plan

Palestinians say Israeli forces kill 3 in West Bank raid

China’s Uyghur Muslims living in a ‘dystopian hellscape’: Report

China passes New Law to counter foreign sanctions against its officials, entities; law was passed after the US and EU countries slapped sanctions over alleged human rights violations in Xinjiang

A well-known senior Buddhist monk among 12 people who died in a military plane crash in Myanmar

Alexei Navalny: From poisoning to political outlaw

China's highest producer inflation in over 12 years highlights global price pressures; producer price index (PPI) increased 9%

China boosts support for Myanmar army, countering US sanctions

Joe Biden, Boris Johnson strike warm tone in first meeting

WTO inches forward in Covid vaccine Patent Waiver talks; all decisions body must be reached by consensus of all 164 member states

US President Joe Biden revokes Trump Executive Orders that sought to ban TikTok, WeChat

Nigerian govt has a verified Koo account now

‘People are scared’ as gang activity fuels Portland violence

Sports News

Racism controversy: Jos Buttler, Eoin Morgan's absence in UAE IPL could make Life Easier for KKR, RR

Will seek G7 understanding over safe Olympics: Japan PM

Neeraj Chopra throws 83.18m to clinch gold in Lisbon

31st seeded Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova downs Tamara Zidansek to reach maiden French Open final, on 52nd attempt

French Open: Let battle commence, says Djokovic ahead of Nadal showdown; Numbers favour Rafael Nadal but Novak Djokovic ready to stage a coup

India announce squad for Sri Lanka Tour; Shikhar Dhawan to lead, Bhuvneshwar Kumar Vice Captain, six uncapped players named in 20-man squad

Mohammed Siraj has shown remarkable improvement, should play WTC final: Harbhajan Singh

WTC Final: India working on plan to fit Siraj in playing XI

Ashwin clears air, says he would never ask ICC to relax rules to help bowl ‘doosra’

2nd Test: Burns, Lawrence keep England afloat against New Zealand

West Indies vs South Africa, 1st Test: Lungi Ngidi takes five wickets as SA take control on Day 1

India’s Olympic team to be fully vaccinated: Narinder Batra

French Open: Let battle commence, says Djokovic ahead of Nadal showdown

Greg Chappell taught India how to chase and win in ODIs: Suresh Raina

Japan mulling downgraded emergency state until Tokyo Games start: Report

France eye Euro 2020 glory as kick-off looms

Today’s word - Umbraculum - Umbrella or umbrella-like structure

Don’t think too much… You’ll create a problem that wasn’t even there in the first place

Have a great weekend