20 women workers hospitalized after ammonia gas leak at a milk dairy unit in Andhra Pradesh

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August 20, 2020

Late in the midst of the Corona epidemic, but the IPL tournament is going to start on 19th September. Players of all the teams have started preparing for the IPL in their own way.

Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma is seen sweating on the field a lot these days. Along with physical training, Rohit is also looting bowlers on the nets. The IPL 2020 will be played in the UAE between 19 September and 10 November this year.

He shared a video on his Instagram handle where he was seen hitting the balls for the Mumbai Indians.

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Cricket activities were stalled since March due to the Coronavirus epidemic. The players were also at home during the lockdown. In such a situation, the players are preparing themselves before returning to the field.

Rohit Sharma returned to action after 195 days with the training camp of Mumbai Indians. He is now practicing and batting heavily in the camp. After a long wait, Rohit Sharma has been seen practicing in the nets.

All cricket activities for India were postponed following the cancellation of the ODI series against South Africa. Rohit appeared on the field in the T20 series against New Zealand. He will now be seen playing Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s IPL opening match against Chennai Super Kings on 19 September.

BCCI may organise a farewell match for MS Dhoni in IPL

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August 20, 2020

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the former captain of the Indian team, surprised everyone with a sudden retirement from international cricket. Since Dhoni’s decision, his fans are very disappointed. The Board of Control for Cricket in India is all set to host a Farewell match for Dhoni in this years’ IPL. A BCCI official said that the board will convey MS Dhoni in this matter during the upcoming IPL and then decide the future schedule accordingly.

“There is no international series at the moment, maybe after the IPL we will see what can be done, because Dhoni has done a lot for the country and he deserves this honor,” the official said. We always wanted a Farewell match for him, but Dhoni is a different player, when he announced his retirement no one thought about it.

Asked if Dhoni has said anything about it so far, the official said, “No, but definitely we will talk to him during the IPL and this will be the right place to get his opinion about the match or series.” Well, there will be a proper honor ceremony for him whether he agrees or not, it will be an honor for us to honor him.

Madan Lal said, ‘I would be really happy if the BCCI organizes the match for Dhoni. He is a great player and you cannot let him go like that, his fans would like to see him in action again. Madan Lal said, “The IPL is happening in the UAE and everyone will stick to their screens to watch them play, but the board can also host a series in India so that people can watch them live at the stadium.”

PM Modi wrote an emotional letter to MS Dhoni

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August 20, 2020

PM Modi wrote a letter to MS Dhoni and shared his emotional viewpoint. MS Dhoni shared the letter on his twitter account and thanked the Prime Minister of India for his message.

“An Artist, Soldier, and Sportsperson what they crave for is appreciation, that their hard work and sacrifice is getting noticed and appreciated by everyone. thanks, PM @narendramodi for your appreciation and good wishes,” MS Dhoni wrote on his Twitter account.

An Artist,Soldier and Sportsperson what they crave for is appreciation, that their hard work and sacrifice is getting noticed and appreciated by everyone.thanks PM @narendramodi for your appreciation and good wishes. pic.twitter.com/T0naCT7mO7
— Mahendra Singh Dhoni (@msdhoni) August 20, 2020

MS Dhoni played 350 ODIs, 90 Test, 98 T20I for India, and more than that he captained the Indian team in more 200 ODIs which highest from any Indian captain. He also scored more than 17,000 runs as the captain of Indian team.

Dhoni-led the Indian side in the winning trial of 2007 World T20, 2011 World Cup, 2013 Champions trophy, and Indian team also achieved the Test mace in 2013.

Earlier Dhoni had retired from the Test cricket in Australia in December 2014. He also stepped down as captain of the Indian ODI team in 2017 January.

The 39-year old will next feature in the upcoming Indian Premier League which will take place in the UAE from September 19.

Kamala Harris targeted Donald Trump on the third day of the election convention

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August 20, 2020

Kamala Harris accepted her nomination for the vice-presidency contender from Democratic Party.

The running mate with the president nominee Joe Biden delivered her speech on the party convention.

In her speech, she targeted President Donald Trump and called his leadership as a failure.

Joe Biden and her California senator Kamala Harris will face the Donald Trump and Mice Pence for the President and Vice-President role respectively.

The American elections will be held on November 3.

What did Kamala said?

“We’re at an inflection point,” she said, speaking live from a largely empty hotel ballroom in Mr. Biden’s hometown of Wilmington, Delaware.

Attacking Mr. Trump, she continued: “The constant chaos leaves us adrift. Incompetence makes us feel afraid. Callousness makes us feel alone. It’s a lot.

“And here’s the thing: We can do better and deserve so much more.

“We must elect a president who will bring something different, something better, and do the important work.”

Kamala Harris also said that she along with Joe Biden will do every possible thing to revive the country’s future after the COVID-19 pandemic and reduce the racial tensions in the United States of America.

“There is no vaccine for racism,” she said. “We’ve got to do the work.”

She continued: “Donald Trump’s failure has cost lives and livelihoods.”

“Right now, we have a president who turns our tragedies into political weapons,” she added.

After the speech of Kamala Harris in the party convention, Donald Trump retaliated with his tweet.

“But didn’t she call him a racist??? Didn’t she say he was incompetent???,” Donald Trump wrote in his tweet.

Also on Wednesday, Barack Obama, former US president attacked Donald Trump by accusing his Republican successor of treating the White House like “one more reality show.”

Aamir Khan receives backlash for his meeting with Turkish First Lady Emine Erdogan

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August 20, 2020

Bollywood actor Aamir Khan is in Turkey for the shooting of his new movie, Laal Singh Chaddha, during the same, few photographs have surfaced on the internet which made netizens unhappy and that too a big time in India.

The pictures showed Aamir Khan meeting Emine Erdogan, the first lady of Turkey. Reports claimed that Aamir Khan flew to Turkey earlier this month for the shoot of his upcoming film as the shoot had to be moved to Turkey amid the surge in coronavirus cases in India.

So clearly, it was under these circumstances that the actor decided to pay a visit to Turkey’s first lady. However, Netizens expressed dissatisfaction with the meeting due to the deepening divide between India and Turkey. They asserted the Turkish President Recep Erdogan haf gone out of his way to offend India.

In February, the Turkish president had showed his support to Pakistan’s Kashmir claim during an address to the Pakistani parliament. Earlier this month, Erdogan raised the Kashmir issue again while speaking to Pakistan’s President Arif Alvi.

Netizens questioned why did Aamir Khan felt the need to visit the first lady of a country that cannot respect India’s sovereignty.

Meanwhile, on the work front, Aamir was last seen in multi-starrer Thugs of Hindostan which also starred Amitabh Bachchan, Katrina Kaif and Fatima Sana Shaikh in pivotal roles. The film had failed to make an impression on audience as well as on the critics. Currently, the actor is shooting for his next film Laal Singh Chadha. The film stars Kareena Kapoor opposite Aamir Khan and is an official Indian remake of Hollywood film ‘Forrest Gump’ which had featured Tom Hanks in the lead role.

Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot to launch ‘Indira Rasoi Yojana’ on Thursday

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August 20, 2020

he Ashok Gehlot-led Rajasthan government on Thursday launched its ambitious Indira Rasoi scheme on the 76th birth anniversary of late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.The government aims at providing food at a nominal price of Rs 8 under this scheme to those in need.

The chief minister launched the scheme through video conferencing from his residence with all ministers joining the conference from their residences or offices.

A thali will have 100 gms of pulses, 100 gms of vegetables, 250 gms chapatti and pickles. Keeping in view the requirements of the locals, the administration has said that the menu can be altered as recommended by the district-level committees.

The scheme will be rolled in 213 urban local bodies of the state. which include 10 locations each in the state capital’s Jaipur municipal corporation greater and heritage area.

"कोई भी भूखा नहीं सोए" के संकल्प को साकार करने की दिशा में एक और कदम बढ़ाते हुए पूर्व प्रधानमंत्री स्व. श्री राजीव गांधी जी की जयंती पर निवास से वीडियो कॉन्फ्रेंसिंग के माध्यम से #इंदिरा_रसोई_योजना का शुभारम्भ किया। #Rajasthan pic.twitter.com/foUbTjD9PS
— Ashok Gehlot (@ashokgehlot51) August 20, 2020

Jaipur District Collector Antar Singh Nehra said that the scheme will also start in 12 municipalities of Jaipur district from Thursday.

The food will be made available from 8.30 am till 1 pm and 5 pm to 8 pm.

India building new road to Ladakh, for facilitating troop movement without observation from enemy’

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August 20, 2020

In Ladakh, India is working on building a new road from Manali to Leh, in an effort to keep troops and tanks on the Pakistan and China front unseen. With the formation of this, the movement of the army will be done faster and their time will also be saved.

India has also been working on providing alternative connectivity to the strategically important sub-sector North including Daulat Beg Oldi and other regions for the last three years and work has begun on Khardung La Pass, the world’s highest motorable road.

“Agencies are working to provide alternative connectivity from Manali to Leh through Nimu-Padam-Darcha axis which will help in saving a lot of time in comparison with the existing routes passing through Zojila pass from Srinagar and the other route from Manali to Leh through Sarchu,” government sources told ANI.

The route mainly used for transportation of goods and men is the one from Zojila, which passes through Drass-Kargil axis to Leh. The same route was targeted heavily by the Pakistanis during the Kargil war in 1999 and was subjected to frequent bombarding and shelling by their troops from positions in high altitude mountains alongside the road.

Google launches job search app Kormo Jobs in India with 20 lakh verified listings

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August 20, 2020

Google has launched a new job seeking app in India, “Kormo Jobs” after initializing its pilot phase in Bangladesh and Indonesia. Google revealed that the app is used by liked of Zomato and Dunzo for remote hiring in Pandemic.

For the time being, it lists job opportunities in 10 cities: Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, and Kolkata.

It provides two million verified job listings and career development opportunities to Indian job seekers in fast-growing categories like on-demand businesses, retail, and hyperlocal delivery.

Kormo Jobs comes with features like location-wise job listings, real-time tracking, and fast updates on applications, in-app interview scheduling, guides to build a digital CV, and new skilling content to help users “learn and earn more”.

Bickey Russell, Regional Manager and Operations Lead, Kormo Jobs, Google, said: “In the wake of the pandemic, the jobs landscape stands altered, with demand shifting to new services that require different sets of skills and experience. Businesses of all sizes face the challenges of the new normal, while job seekers are having to adapt to this shift quickly. We remain committed to contributing towards helping Indians find credible and promising starts to their careers with Kormo Jobs.”

Google had launched Kormo Jobs in Bangladesh in 2018 and then in Indonesia. It had announced same for India, saying, “Encouraged by this momentum and to lend support to employment efforts in a post-pandemic world, we are bringing our Kormo Jobs Android app to India to help even more job seekers discover and apply for jobs across India with an additional gateway.”

US formally suspends three accords with Hong Kong over China’s new security law

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August 20, 2020

The ongoing rift between two superpowers — US and China continues to worsen with both the countries backlashing at each other. In the latest, the Donald Trump administration has announced to suspend three bilateral agreements with Hong Kong including extradition and tax exemptions over China’s newly introduced strict national security law for the former British territory.

“The Chinese Communist Party chose to crush the freedoms and autonomy of the people of Hong Kong,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted.

The announcement came after President Donald Trump decided to revoke Hong Kong’s preferential trade status following China’s clamping as violent protests broke out in the territory last year. The three agreements cover the surrender of fugitives, transfer and convicted prisoners and reciprocal tax exemptions on income from international shipping.

“These steps underscore our deep concern regarding Beijing’s decision to impose the National Security Law, which has crushed the freedoms of the people of Hong Kong,” State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said in a statement.

She further said the Hong Kong government has been notified of the suspension. The administration had earlier informed of ending special trade and commercial privileges that Hong Kong enjoyed, imposing sanction son Hong Kong and Chinese authorities.

Beijing had earlier stated Hong Kong will follow “one-country, two-systems” arrangement for 50 years, allowing the city to have its own legal system after Britishers handed over the territory in 1997. However, Chinese mainland tried to acquire the city by introducing new security law and revoking the right to public dissent in Hong Kong.

“President Trump has made clear that the United States will, therefore, treat Hong Kong as ‘one country, one system’ and take action against individuals who have crushed the freedoms of the people of Hong Kong,” Ortagus said in the statement.

Meanwhile, the Hong Kong government has said the US decision to end the agreements displayed “disrespect for bilateralism and multilateralism under the current administration and should be condemned by the international community”.

US Election: Fake allegations on Kamala Harris is the surging the election cards

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August 20, 2020

From the day Kamala Harris is elected as the Democratic Party vice-president contender many false claims and theories are been spread about her eligibility and heritage.

Earlier President Donald Trump has said that Kamala Harris is ineligible for the vice-president post of the United States because she is not born in America.
After that there is was a render of search on google which includes the terms related to Kamala birthplace and origin.

Ms. Harris was born in Oakland, California, her father was the Jamaican native and her mother is from the Indian. So, in this case, the allegation turned wrong.

Apart from this were also the claims about Kamala Harris’ heritage. Before getting elected as the vice-presidential nomination, she had not been identified as a black woman in America.

In her autobiography, Kamala Harris wrote, “My mother understood very well that she was raising two black daughters,” as quoted by BBC News.

“She knew that her adopted homeland would see Maya [her sister] and me as black girls, and she was determined to make sure we would grow into confident, proud black women.”

According to the Washington Post: “Harris grew up embracing her Indian culture, but living a proudly African-American life.”

After over a year, MHA orders pull out of over 10,000 forces personnel from J&K

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August 20, 2020

The Central government on Wednesday decided to withdraw as many as 100 companies of security forces from the Union Territory of Jammu Kashmir. According to reports, the decision to withdraw troops was taken after a review meeting conducted by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).

The ministry had flown in at least 400 companies to J&K before nullification of Articles 370 and 35A and re-organisation of J&K into two Union Territories on August 5, 2019. Each company comprises 100-110 men, which means over 10,000 personnel are on their way out of J&K.

“It has been decided to withdraw 100 companies of CAPFs with immediate effect from Jammu and Kashmir and revert them back to their respective locations,” reads the MHA order.

Sources revealed that 3000 additional forces continue to remain stationed in Kashmir and their withdrawal will depend on the second review by the MHA scheduled to be held next month—(KNO)

Incessant rainfall batters Delhi-NCR, creates flood like situation

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August 20, 2020

Many parts of the national capital and its adjoining areas such as Noida, Gurugram, Faridabad and Ghaziabad remained flooded as heavy rain continued to lash the city for the second consecutive day, leading to water logging and traffic jams.

Delhi recorded 46 mm rainfall from 8:30 am Wednesday to 8:30 am on Thursday, as per the Safdarjung Observatory which provides accurate representative figures for the city. As per the reports, the city recorded 80 percent off its monsoon season’s rainfall in just 11 days.

Thunderstorm with light to moderate intensity rain would occur over isolated places of entire Delhi, Greater Noida, Noida, Gurugram, Sohna, Palwal, Nuh, Faridabad, Bhallabhgarh, Chandpur and Hastinapur during the 60 minutes: IMD warned in a tweet.

20.08.2020: 1435 IST: Thunderstorm with light to moderate intensity rain would occur over and adjoining areas of Bharatpur,Deeg, Barsana, Aligarh, Jattari, Khurja,Greater Noida, Noida, Sambhal, Gulaoti, Hapur, Ghaziyabad, Bulandshahar, Modinagar, Meerut, Siyana, Hodal,
— India Met. Dept. (@Indiametdept) August 20, 2020

The overnight rain brought the temperature drastically down to 27 degrees in the city. Meanwhile, poor civic infrastructure of the city also became a concern for the localites as half of the city submerged in water.

The blockage also led to heavy traffic disruption across Narela-Bawana road, Raja Garden flyover, Kasturba Underpass, MB Rad, Jhandewalan Mandir, Jhilmil underpass, Azadpur vegetable market, Sarai Pipal Thala, Jahangirpuri and Madanpur Khadar.

Amid the heavy rains, IndiGo airline advised its passengers to take extra precautions. “Delhi Rains have waterlogged several parts of the city and heavy traffic/road block is expected en route to Delhi Airport. Do keep a tab on live traffic and leave a little early for the airport,” IndiGo tweeted.

#6ETravelAdviosry: #DelhiRains have waterlogged several parts of the city and heavy traffic/road block is expected en route to #Delhi Airport. Do keep a tab on live traffic and leave a little early for the airport.
— IndiGo (@IndiGo6E) August 20, 2020

According to the weather department, Delhi will continue to receive more rainfall till August 23. The temperature would also decrease, ranging from 25 degrees Celsius to 35 degrees Celsius.

State of emergency in California after heat waves trigger wildfires

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August 20, 2020

A state of emergency was declared in California after dozens of heat wave trigerred dozens of fast moving fires across the north and centre region of the state, threatening thousands of people.

The fire burned many homes, prompting people to evacuate as crews continue to control the situation. Evacuation orders were issued following the LNU Lightning Complex that burned 46,225 acres, destroyed 50 structures and damaged another 50 structures across Sonoma, Lake and Napa counties.

About 20 fires broke out in the northern Bay area, emergency services informed. The residents in portions of Lake and Napa countries were advised that there was an “immediate threat of life and property” caused bu the fire.

The Lake country Sheriff’s ofice issued an evacuation order for the people residing near Hidden Valley Lake and Jerusalem Valley.

Since the past week, California’s Death Valley has been experiencing historic high tempratures with the mercury rising as 54.4 degrees Celsius. This heat wave has put a massive pressure on the state’s electricity with more than 30,000 people suffering blackouts.

Meanwhile, California has been witnessing surge in cases of novel coronavirus cases for the past two months and fire breakout amid the pandemic may worsen the situation in the area, experts said.

Another round of India-China diplomatic talks today to end border impasse

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