Today’s Top 10 News: DNP News brings to you top 10 breaking stories of the day to keep you abreast of all the latest developments from India and around the world.
1. PM Modi to address 12 Webinars on Saptarishi priorities
Prime Minister Modi will be deliberating and addressing 12 post-budget webinars, which will form nucleus of the Saprishi priorities which were outlined in the Union Budget presented in Parliament on February 1. The Webinars will bring synergies and coherence in the intent and delivery mechanism of Ministries and Departments of Government of India.
2. Amitabh Kant says US Legislatures on renewable energy ‘protectionist’
Amitabh Kant, India’s G-20, Sherpa stated at the World Sustainable Development Summit that US laws which subsidized green hydrogen production were “against basic principles of free markets.”
3. Union Cabinet ratifies signing of India-Guyana air services
Indians are the largest ethnic group in Guyana and comprise 40% of its population. Recognizing the role played by Indian diaspora in Guyana, the Union Cabinet has approved the signing of air services agreement between India and Guyana will pave the way for flight between two countries.
4. Indian Navy’s IFC-IOR ties up with Seychelles center to counter non-traditional maritime security threats
Indian Navy’s Information Fusion Centre for Indian Ocean Region (IFC-IOR) located in Gurugram signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Regional Coordination Operations Centre (RCOC), Seychelles to develop common maritime understanding to counter non-traditional maritime security threats such as privacy and armed robbery, human and contraband trafficking, Illegal Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) fishing, arms running, poaching , maritime terrorism with special focus on western Indian Ocean.
5. Hate Crimes in rise in US with Jews and Sikhs being the most targeted
A total of 1005 crimes related to religion occurred in the US in 2021 and Jews and Sikhs were the two most targeted religious groups in the hate motivated crimes.
6. Pak Defence Minister travels to Afghnistan to mollify Taliban who have closed key border crossing between two countries
Pak Defence Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif travelled to Kabul and met Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar , the Taliban appointed Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs to resolve closure by Taliban administration of a key border crossing between the two countries.
8. UK again overtakes India and emerges as world’s sixth biggest stock market
As Indian equity markets suffer from jitters caused Adani Group meltdown, the UK has once again surpassed India as the world’s sixth largest equity market for the first time in almost nine months. The combined market capitalization of primary listings in the UK, excluding ETF’s and ADR’s , reached about $3.11 trillion, some $5.1 billion higher than Indian equivalents.
9. Women’s T 20 World Cup : India gets ready for a titanic clash with the mighty Aussies
Team India has reached the semifinals of Women’s T 20 World Cup and will now face invincible Aussies, who many teams would like to avoid in the Semi Finals.
10. Karan Johar , Anushka Sharma , Neetu Kapoor up in arms over ‘invasion of privacy’ of Alia Bhatt
Bollywood celebrities have got united for a cause and have expressed solidarity after Alia Bhatt expressed dismay over Media Organizations click and publish her picture without her consent. Leading lights of Bollywood such as Anushka Sharma, Janhvi Kapoor , Susmita Sen , Karan Johar and Arjun Kapoor have condemned invasion of privacy with strongly worded posts.
