Today’s News (31st July 2021, Saturday)
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Today’s News (31st July 2021, Saturday)
--by Annadatha Venkata Murali Manohar
Tokyo Olympics News
Alexander Zverev ends Nojak Djokovic’s Golden Slam bid with comeback win
Transgender athlete Laurel Hubbard thanks IOC for Games inclusion
World No. 1 archer Deepika Kumari crashes out of quarters
Didn’t have any strategy, just wanted to fight fearlessly: Lovina Borgohian on historic Olympic win
Rory Mcllroy thunders up leaderboard as Xander Schauffele leads Games golf
Quarter-finalists India ride on Gujarat twin strikes to beat Japan 5-3 in last pool game
Headlines
China-Pak corridor in Indian Territory: MEA
LAC row: India, China to hold 12th round of corps commander-level talks today
Progress on Gogra-Hot Springs likely, but not on Depsang, in India-China military talks today
Vice Admiral SN Ghormade to take charge as Indian Navy vice chief today
Dhanbad judge death: SC takes suo motu cognisance of case; says it’s state’s duty to ensure judicial officers’ safety
Pegasus spyware: SC to hear next week plea seeking independent probe
Opposition protests disrupt yet another day of Lok Sabha proceedings
Govt responsible for disruption of Parliament proceedings; must discuss Pegasus issue: Congress
Ramdas Athawale seeks laws for two-year suspension of members creating ruckus in Parliament
New Karnataka CM Basavaraj Boomai meets PM Narendra Modi
Floods, landslide throw life out of gear in Uttarakhand
Telangana intelligence chief T Prabhakar Rao embroiled in slugfest ahead of bypoll
University of Hyderabad retains position as top Indian university
IIT-Hyderabad campus gets new waste management system
Issue of normalising foreign travel of Indian citizens being take up with countries: MEA
Scheduling international flight suspension extended till August-end
Pegasus snooping row: Centre says ‘non-issue’ as opposition demands Parliament debate; Supreme Court to hear plea next week
Sterlite winding off oxygen production at its Tuticorin plant
Days after hexacopter shot down by cops, UAVs spotted in Akhnoor and Samba
Now, CPI willing to support Mamata’s Trinamool Congress to fight BJP
Mizoram Boundary committee asks people for support in fight for ‘forefather’s land’
Mizoram assures unhindered, safe travel for all non-Mizos
Delta variant spreads as easily as chickenpox, causes more severe illness: Report
Chhattisgarh Assembly disallows tabling of BJP MLA’s anti-conversion Bill
Jharkhand govt serious about probe, committed to ensure justice to family of Dhanbad judgement: CM Hemant Soren
BJP MP writes to LS speaker, demands Shashi Tharoor’s removal as chairperson of House Panel on IT
Nearly 5 deaths daily in judicial custody in the last three years: MHA
Himachal admin ups security for CM Jai Ram Thakur, J P Nadda and Anurag Thakur
Cabinet expansion could take place within next week, says new Karnataka CM
Union Minister RCP Singh may be asked to step down from JD (U) president’s post
Tamil Nadu cops allowed to take weekly off and leave on birthday, wedding anniversary
Financial & Business News
Amazon announces Q2 results, first under new CEO Andy Jassy
India needs to grow 8-10% to reach pre-pandemic levels
Microsoft looks to tap into Oyo before its potential IPO
Biocon: In US, we are now competing with Big Pharma
US House to take up residential eviction moratorium extension
Venture capital firms turn to India with China’s tech crackdown
Sebi gives more time to brokers, clearing members to comply with certain rules
Data storage norms: Mastercard submits audit report to RBI
Venture capital firms turn to India with China’s tech crackdown
First Solar of US plans $684 million module plant in TN
Corona updates
Vice President Venkaiah Naidu urges scientists to focus on paediatric Covid-19 vaccine
Central team arrives in Kerala amid rise in Covid cases
*Easing of lockdown combined with pandemic fatigue, lack of community adherence to Covid-appropriate behavior, and circulation of more transmissible variants of SARS-CoV-2 can be attributed to the surge in new cases in some states and union territories, the Lok Sabha was informed on Friday. Daily case count was reported at 44230, marginally higher than Thursday's. Another 555 deaths were also reported. *
Delta variant as contagious as chickenpox: CDC study
Tamil Nadu lockdown extended till Aug 9 without further relaxations
Saudi Arabia records 14 deaths and 1,187 new infections with the Corona virus
Tunisia is the first in the world in the spread of the (Delta) strain of the Coronavirus
UAE: 4 deaths and 1,520 new infections with the Corona virus
No need to reinforce messages on Covid-appropriate behaviour, vaccine uptake: Centre
98 railway staff who succumbed to Covid had been vaccinated: Government
World: Confirmed: 196,582,301; Total Deaths: 4,198,384; Recovered: 129,048,865; Active Cases: 63,335,052
India: Confirmed: 31,572,344; Total Deaths: 423,217; Recovered: 30,743,972; Active Cases: 405,155
State News
9 killed as heavy rains last parts of north, east India, red alert issued for Rajasthan
Will come back to Delhi every 2 months: Mamata Banerjee
Another case of extortion filed against former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh
Only 31% of Delhi’s informal workers got rations, 54% still have no ration cards: CPM survey
Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Polytechnic Hyderabad is conducting 5-day faculty development program
Former minister E Peddi Reddy set to join TRS from BJP
Jinnaram murder: Couple K Swamy (30) and his wife Narasamma (30), admit role in robbing 3 more women
Hyderabad to sport 150 million square feet office space by 2025?
Telangana: Rakhi through e-shop launched in Hyderabad
Telangana: Forest-electricity department joust pushes tribals into darkness
Javed Akhtar, Shabana Azmi meet Mamata Banerjee, lyricist says there should be change, democracy is not static
Hyderabad: Kamala Nehru Polytechnic for Women (KNPW) alumni and students beg to save college
Agriculture varsity develops 11 seed varieties
Telangana: Ex-Sub Inspector dies as car falls into well
Two minors snatch cab at gunpoint in Gurugram to go on hill station trip
Maharashtra to open malls, multiplexes; curbs eased in 25 districts
Telangana wants Krishna water in 50:50 ratio
Eturnagaram police arrest two tiger skin smugglers
Shilpa Shetty defamation case: News reports based on police sources can't be termed defamatory, Bombay HC tells actress
Mumbai court defers Raj Kundra’s anticipatory bail order in cybercrime case deferred to August 2
Covid-19: Jharkhand allows schools to conduct IX-XII classes; extends lockdown-like curbs
Govt releases guidelines to provide framework for sharing of biological data
BJP need not listen to everything Yediruppa says: Senior party leader
Kuwait News
His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah sends a cable of condolences to the Turkish President on the victims of the forest fires that broke out in a number of states, and His Highness the Crown Prince and His Highness the Prime Minister send similar cables of condolences
The State of Kuwait expresses its sympathy and solidarity with Turkey due to (foreign) the fires that ravaged the forests in the south of the country, killing and wounding dozens
Assistant Foreign Minister for Human Rights Affairs, official spokesman and member of the Permanent National Committee on Preventing Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants, Talal Al-Mutairi, says that the State of Kuwait shares the international community’s fight against human trafficking and has made great strides in this field
The President of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly, Volkan Bozkir, announces an official visit to the State of Kuwait on Saturday, during which he will meet with senior state officials
The road champion returns to the country today with a bronze medal in shooting in the Tokyo Olympics
The First Deputy Speaker of the UAE Federal National Council leaves Kuwait after a three-day official visit
Europol: Migrant smuggling group dismantled
Kuwait Embassy honours shooter Al-Turgi for Olympic Medal
First flight of Operation Allies Refuge arrives in US
Germany economy records 1.5pct growth in 2021 second quarter
Kuwait Oil price rises to USD 74.82 pb
Kuwaiti swimmer Dashti misses Tokyo Olympics 50m freestyle semifinals
UN hails Kuwait’s efforts in combating human trafficking
Nihonmastu Chamber of Commerce offers friendship tokens for Kuwaiti team
Kuwait records 853 new Covid-19 cases and 6 deaths
International News
Veena Reddy sworn-in as first Indian-American USAID Mission Director
Vancouver: Indian-Canadian community launch project to revive city’s famous Punjabi Market
Women’s rights activist Rita Abraham voices concern over uneasy peace in South Africa
Israel inspects NSO Group offices after Pegasus revelations
Ohio: One killed in crash involving motorcycle, semi truck in Dayton; 1-75 remains shut
Beirut: Lebanese President Michel Aoun expresses his ‘absolute’ willingness to testify in the event that the judicial investigator in the Beirut port explosion decides to listen to him
The Coalition to Support Legitimacy announces that it has thwarted an attempt to attack a Saudi commercial ship with a drone
Iraq decides to reopen its National Museum in conjunction with the recovery of 17,000 artifacts from the United States
Saudi Foreign Minister: The Kingdom respects the decision of the Tunisian President and considers them a ‘sovereign’ matter
The Turkish President announces control of most of the forest fires that broke out recently in separate areas
EU says sanctions an option to tackle Belarus people smugglers
Covid vaccine protection highly likely to wane over says, says UK advisers
Karachi to undergo partial lockdown to curb virus spread
Sports News
India vs. Sri Lanka: Yuzvendra Chahal and K Gowtham test positive for Covid-19
South Africa confirm white-ball tour of Sri Lanka in September
England star Ben Stokes takes indefinite ‘mental well-being’
Indian bowlers sweat it out in nets ahead ofB England Test
Rishabh Pant, Team India return to training ahead of England Test Series