“Your courage is higher than higher than the highest region where you all are are stationed”.
Prime minister Narendra Modi on Friday made a surprise visit to Leh the capital city of Union territory of Ladakh and briefed by senior officer at a forward position in Nimu. Amid ongoing tension with China PM was accompanied by chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat and army chief General Major Mukund Naravane.
Earlier, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh was scheduled to visit Leh. It was cancelled, but no reason was given.
I want to salute you all and all the soldiers whol laid down their lives for the motherland said Prime Minister Modi during the interaction with Indian Army and ITBP personnel. He also mentioned that the confidence, determination and belief of soldiers are immovable.
On a quiet visit to Indus banks, surrounded by the Sanskar range at an elevation of 10,300 feet, about 186 Km short of Galwan velly, designed to convey a strong message to China, Modi told soldiers posted along the Line of Actual Control that the courage they had demonstrated had sent a message to the entire world. And “The time is for expansionism is over, this is the age of development”.
He also hailed, praised the soldiers and expressed gratitude and paid homage to the martyrs of Galwan clash.
Modi’s visit is seen as a morale booster for the forces and a strong and direct message to China after the June 15 clash with troops of China’s People’s Liberation Army, in which 20 Indian soldiers were killed.
He also visited the Hall of Fame Museum, located in Leh, run by the Indian Army. And paid gratitude and Condolences to the brave son’s of Bharat Mata.
#WATCH Prime Minister Narendra Modi performed Sindhu Darshan puja on his arrival at Nimu the forward brigade place in Ladakh, yesterday pic.twitter.com/pywgyrioql
The CBI ( Central Bureau of Investigation ) took over the custodial death of father and son in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday . They also arrested two policemen, Balakrishnan and Raghuganesh on murder charges .
Inspector Sridhar, head constable Murugan and sub inspector Balakrishnan have been arrested. With this total arrests in case has risen to four .
” All the four were remanded to judicial custody and Will be kept in jail in the district ” Police official Said .
The charges are under the section 302 of Indian Penal Code . Raghuganesh is the primary accused of the brutal murder of Jayaraj-Fenix .
The 12 special team’s of the CBI are strictly following the case to serve justice.
The incident happened on June 19 . When father, son of age 59 and 31 respectively , were picked up by santhankulam police for violating lockdown guidelines.
The eyewitness said , they were stripped naked , their knees were smashed and their chest hair was ripped out . Cops inserted rod in their rectum leaving them bleeding . Their lungis changed seven times in every 5 Hour . Lastly they died on 23 June .
Later the allegations of police brutality was confirmed after postmortem report.
Female head constable , the eye witness asked for the witness protection .
Due to lockdown there are sectors like hospitality, tourism that are facing several problems. Reserve Bank of India announced a Moratorium till 31st August.
Sunil Mehta of Indian Bank said that they had proposed to RBI, they will allow one time restructuring relief.
Indian Association of Tour Operators (IATO), which represents more than 1,600 operators for inbound tourists, has urged the government to provide relief measures to the tourism industry.
Three month moratorium on all type of loans announced by the RBI Governor for the hospitality travel and tourism industry stakeholders.
The Reserve Bank of India has begun spadework for a one-time loan restructuring scheme for some sector s severely hit by the covid-19 pandemic.
The Federation of association in Indian tourism and Hospitality (FAITH), and the Federation of 10 travel trade Associations in the country welcomed the step by RBI.
FAITH has been in the forefront of the lobbing for relief and bailout packages for the industry. It has prepared and submitted elaborate reports, financial and statuary separately, for the consideration of the task force set up by the Government.
RBI may unveil more relief measures for some of the stressed sector of the economy. The Central bank has taken note of all the suggestions and a detailed examination of various recommendation are being undertaken.
The apex body estimates that 38 million jobs associated with tourism are at stake and that the economy can lose revenue of about ₹5 trillion in the next financial year.
Last week, the finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the Government is in talk’s with RBI for a one time restructuring of loan to help stressed restructuring of loan to help stressed sectors.
Finance Minister said on 26 June that intense discussion is underway between the finance minister and Central Bank on providing a one-time restructuring of covid-19 impact businesses.
Mandeep Lamba, President – South Asia, HVS Anarock, also appreciated the relief measures announced by the RBI today.
“I think the moratorium of loans for a quarter is a good start” said Ajay Bakaya, MD, Sarovar Hotels.
India is about to buy New equipment and Fighter jets
In the total , the defence acquisition council approved contracts worth of Rs 38,900 crore .
It includes 21 MiG-29 and a dozen of Sukhoi -30Mkis plus missiles.
Upgrade of existing 59 MiG-29 aircraft.
Indian defence got government approval to purchase 21 MiG-29 and 12 Sukhoi -30Mki fighter aircraft, along with the 248 long range air to air missiles Astra from Russia . For the boost to the Armed force’s, the defence ministry cleared the order of purchase on Thursday.
The budget is turn to be around Rs 38,900 crore . They also gave approval to upgrade existing 59 MiG-29 for IAF ( Indian air force ) .
Defence minister Rajnath Singh visited Russia’s Victory Parade in Russia and he even met Senior members of Government in Moscow to learn about the supplies of spares and weapons systems.
The tension at LAC in Ladakh remains even after some round’s of meeting at the corp’s commander level. The proposal to buy fighter jets comes at a time when India and China were engaged in a tension standoff in Galwan Valley.
Defence Minister announced the decision in press release and without bothering to the conceal the context of current situation with China he stated ” current situation and the need to strengthen the armed forces for the defence of our borders we approved the purchase “
He further added ” the approval was also the long felt need of the IAF , to increase its fighter squadrons .”
“If India is buying modern warfare equipment , the message is the same .
If India is building modern infrastructure , the message is the same .
Indian defence forces have always showed their heroics since WW ll : PM @narendramodi, BJP LIVE tweets.
If India is buying modern warfare equipment, the message is the same.
If India is building modern infrastructure, the message is the same.
Indian defence forces have always showed their heroics since WW II: PM @narendramodi
Russia seemed to respond to India’s list for the defense purchase at a time of the conflict with China – seen a strong partner of Russia . Said Harsh Pant , Professor of International relations at London based king’s college.
Patna born Sushant Singh Rajput was an Indian actor, started his career with television serials and debuted in film “Kai Po Che” in 2013. And gave superhit movies like MS Shining, Christine. Rajput worked with Yash Raj, Shekar Kapur, Christopher Nolan and others.
On 14th June, 34 years old Sushant Singh found dead by Hanging at Bandra residence, further police made certain disclosure regarding the mental condition at the time of death.
Sushant always inspired the youth by his films and made a huge fans in Bollywood, he was very fond of writing Dairy, in one of his note he mentioned about his 50 dreams in life. He is the only Indian actor who had bought a piece of land on the moon . During investigation, police didn’t find any suicide note in his house, the servant told the police that before he locked himself in his room he had a glass of juice and his father Mr. K.K Singh said that he had a talk with Sushant few hours ago . It is also said that Sushant and his friends had house party last night.
On Monday statement of director Sanjay Leela Bhansali will be recorded in connection with sucide case.It is said that Sushant was Bhansali’s first choice for Ram-Leela. Later Bhansali cast Ranveer Singh in Ram-Leela. Also in Befikre Aditya Chopra was to cast Sushant, but later removed and Ranveer was cast in his place.
Sushant’s father K.K Singh is in a state of shock said Shekhar Suman ‘Television actor and host’ who visited Sushant’s father at Patna . Meanwhile, fans are demanding CBI enquiry to sucide case. Mumbai police is currently investigating the case and has recorded the statement of around 28 person in connection with the actor including his close friend Rhea Chakraborty.
Zydus cadilla got approval for clinical trials after recommendation from experts committee of covid-19.
HIGHLIGHTS –
– Zydus cadilla , Indian company set for human trial.
– Animals developed antibodies against covid-19.
– Bharat biotech and ICMR are working together for the development of vaccine.
– They may launch vaccine on 15 August.
Indian pharmaceutical company Zydus Cadilla got approval from the DCGI ( Drug controller General of India ) to begin their phase I and phase ll trials on Humans . India is one of maximum vaccine producers and suppliers to the world wide. Vaccine take a lot of time to go under various clinical trials .
Now India is reached out at second phase of clinical trials. The company got approval when they gave data to DCGI based on animal trial. Numerous animals like – pigs , rabbits , guinea , mice , rats developed antibodies against the Corona virus.
More than 7 vaccines are being developed and researched only in India. This week two companies got the approval to go ahead. Now they can start human trials for their prototypes . Bharat biotech and ICMRw are working together to develop vaccine against covid-19 .
As per ICMR ( Indian council of medical research ) reports the first made in India coronavirus vaccine will be launched on 15th of August , independence Day.
Although whole world is in rush to make vaccine.Global candidates like Moderna Inc’s. mRNA 1273 , Cansino Biotech’s Sinovac and Oxford- Astrazene Ca’schadox1 nCov19 are in advance stage of Human trials .
While today India hits a new record . India reports over 20000 covid cases in a single day . Till now there are 628k + 19148 confirmed cases and over 18500 death.
India and China shares about 3,488 km of border, the tension between India and China is escalating after the Chinese government has increased activity along the laddakh border and deployed its army.
Even after high level meetings between Indian Army and Peoples Liberation Army, India and China got engaged into a violent face off on 15th June night, both countries suffered several casualties, India army lost around 20 of its soldiers. After the clash the armed forces are said to have been given a free hand to assess the situation on the ground along the Line of actual control (LAC).
PM modi today made a surprise visit to Ladakh and briefed by senior officer at a forward position in Nimu. PM will interact with troops, accomplished by chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat and army chief General Major Mukund Naravane.
Earlier, on 6th June, meeting at Lieutenant General-level talks were held to end the stand-off at Pangong Tso and a number of other areas in eastern Ladakh. In the over four-and-a-half-hour meeting, Indian had pressed for restoration of status quo and immediate withdrawal of a sizeable number of Chinese troops from all the stand-off points. And a second meeting between 14 Corp Commander Lt. General Harinder Singh and South Xixijiang Military district Cheif Major General Liu Lin, has not resulted in any form of disengagement of military.
Meanwhile President Donald Trump on Thursday waded right in the middle of India’s dispute with China, asserting that Beijing’s aggressive stance in Ladakh fits with the larger pattern of Chinese aggression in other parts of the world and offered to meditate in a “row ranging border dispute” between India and China.
Bollywood choreographer Saroj Khan dies at age of 71 . The veteran choreographer Saroj was popularly known as ” master ji ” . On 20th of June she was hospitalised to Mumbai’s Guru Nanak hospital at Bandra after she complained about difficulty in breathing . But today she dies due to cardiac attack.
Notably , the mandatory covid-19 test was done at the hospital and showed a negative report.
Manish Jagwani , Saroj’s nephew told news agency about her demise . He said ” she passed away due to cardiac arrest at around 2:30 am at the hospital ” .
Master ji Saroj khan won 3 national awards and directed over 2000 songs in her career .
At age of three , Saroj khan was background dancer but in year 1974 , when film ” Geeta Mera Naam” released she got her big break as choreographer. Saroj was fondly known as mother of dance / choreographer in India . She gave 40 remarkable years of her life to Bollywood.
Song ‘ Dhak dhak karne laga ‘ featuring Madhuri Dixit and ‘ Dola re Dola’ featuring Aishwarya Rai and Madhuri still remains most iconic and popular dance numbers produced by Bollywood.
In Bollywood most of the song’s choreographed by khan . She were also a trained choreographer in the 90s who came out to make a big name in Bollywood Industry, including Farah khan.
Her last choreography seen on screen was for ” tabaah ho Gaye ” for the movie kalank in 2019 .
Her daughter sukaina said to PTI ” we buried her at around 7 am . The prayer meeting will be held after three days ” .
Madhuri Dixit is heartbroken by learning about her master ji sudden demise , she tweeted –
” I am devastated by the loss of my friend and guru , Saroj khan will always be grateful for her work in the helping me to reach my full potential in dance. The world has Lost an amazing talented person . I will miss you my sincere condolences to the family #ripsaroji.https://twitter.com/khushalbadhe11/status/1278901504074592261?s=20
In this pandemic situation all over the globe, people are working from home. Seizing the opportunity, Mukesh Ambani’s telecom company Reliance ‘jio’ have launched JioMeet app as an alternative of Zoom app on 30 June, With HD conferencing quality and 100 participants at a time.
In spite of being available to the public, Jio had been testing the app for athe past couples of months
The company is ensuring that the service is convenient to operate and doesn’t come with a lot of ornamentation. Free download from Playstore and App store with free video conferencing, Version 2.24.74 JioMeet is competing Zoom app with 100,000 downloads till now.
FEATURES :-
● Availability – On Android, MacOs, ● Microsoft Window, IOS & ON. ● Active speaker view layout. ● Advance meeting scheduling and sharing invites. ● No Invite code required for sign up. ● Bug fixes. ● Webrtc support – Just by clicking jio invite link you can join from your browser. ● B2B calls – capable of conducting meetings with customers, partner and friends outside your office.
How to download the app:-
On desktop : Visit the site & download JioMeet application. On Mobile device : Go to play store/ app store, search JioMeet application and download it.
Devices that support JioMeet:-
● Android device running on Android 5.0 and above. ● iSS device running on iSO 9 or above. ● Window 10 devices. ● Mac devices running on version 10.13 and above.
The Reliance Company mentioned that it’s eHealth platform integrated with JioMeet app will allow users to consult doctors virtually, get prescription, order medicines and lab tests online. And the eEducation platform will allow to create virtual classrooms for students and teachers offering multimedia content for learning from home.
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) on Friday announced that Intel will invest Rs 1894.50 crore for 0.39 percent stake in Jio Platforms. This will be a historic twelfth investment in the digital arm of RIL within eleven weeks. Read more on #JioNews: https://t.co/MgI7YGL7vt#Jiopic.twitter.com/HtBHyE9pHx
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was served with a letter to vacate the bungalow till 1 August. In year 1997 government bungalow was allotted to her.
Priyanka Vadra the Congress leader was ordered on Wednesday to leave her 35 lodhi , estate Bungalow in the Lutyens zone till 1st of August. As the government had withdrawn her SPG cover.
In Nov 2019 had government issued Z – plus security and removed SPG cover of the Congress leader Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi as well as Priyanka Vadra.
The Modi government in year 2015 made some amendments in allotments rule. Since then the Government accomodation are only eligible for those who have SPG cover protection. However before that , accomodation is allowed even to those who have z-plus security.
Randeep surjewala the Congress chief spokesperson said , ” The party does not fear From such notices and will continue to highlight the wrong doing of a failed Modi government. PM Narendra Modi and his government are blinded by rage , hatred and revenge against the Congress leadership unnerved by political activism of Priyanka ji in up , Modi government has stopped even further by issuing house vacation notice. Such frustrated attempts will not deter us ” – he twitted . https://twitter.com/rssurjewala/status/1278358553061801984?s=20
PM, Sh. Narendra Modi & his Govt are blinded by rage, hatred and revenge against the Congress leadership.
Unnerved by political activism of Priyanka ji in U.P, Modi Govt has stooped even further by issuing house vacation notice.
— Randeep Singh Surjewala (@rssurjewala) July 1, 2020
This notice created a rush and heat into politics . The Congress said ” government action shows deep hatred and vendetta of PM Narendra Modi towards the Congress leadership. ”
Notably , Priyanka vadra is supposed to shift in Lucknow , uttarpradesh.
With every passing day the new positive cases of corona virus is raising continuously, the virus is affecting 213 countries around the world, day by day situation is getting worst and vaccine is yet to come even after the researchers are burning the midnight oil.
The disease researcher Dr. Fauci has told “I would not be surprised” if the new cases in the country reach 100,000 per day. Taking concern over indoor gatherings, bar scenes and patrons standing shoulder to shoulder . Just making rules and regulations to control the affect of novel Corona virus is not enough but strictly implementing them is also needed for full recovery.
Around U.S and world, it is clear that, despite President Trump’s suggestion that the virus would “fade away” the Pandemic is getting worse. In New York, officials identified more than 399 thousand new cases and 31,791, death, in California 240 thousand news cases with 6,168 death and in Texas 175 thousand new cases with 2,518 death , Total cases reported in U.S is 2.74 million with 130 thousand death.
The U.S based Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer INC and European biotechnology company BioTech SE have decided to work together to produce coronavirus vaccine.
Six worker’s died while 17 are severely injured in a boiler blast at Neyveli in Tamil Nadu.
This is the second tragic incident in Tamil Nadu just in 60 days. The blast took place on Tuesday morning at NCC India limited which is situated at cuddalore, distance about 180 km from Chennai capital of Tamil Nadu.
It is believed that the blast took place when they tried to light up 5 unit’s that was shut down on may.
The director of the power plant , R Vikraman said , ” The boiler was not in operation , we are trying to investigate the incident . Our 6 workers died while 16 are severely injured . Among 16 , six worker’s are regular employees while 10 are contract based employees.
The union home minister Amit Shah tweeted ,
” Anguished to learn about the loss of lives due to blast at Neyveli power plant boiler in Tamil Nadu.
Have spoken to @CMoTamilNadu and assured all possible help.
@CISFHQrs is already on the spot to assist the relief work.
Praying for the earliest recovery of those injured .”
Anguished to learn about the loss of lives due to a blast at Neyveli power plant boiler in Tamil Nadu.
Have spoken to @CMOTamilNadu and assured all possible help.@CISFHQrs is already on the spot to assist the relief work.
Praying for the earliest recovery of those injured.
While chief minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami announced 3 lakh rupees relief to the family of dead ones while 1 lakh rupees to the severely injured and 50 thousand rupees to the mild injuried.
This is the second fatal incident took place in Tamil Nadu in just 2 months .
. In may , 11 people died and around 1000 were hospitalised after the tragic gas leak overnight in Vizag .
NLCIL chief Gurusamynathan said the high level inquiry is issued to the company by PK Mohapatra , who is retired director of NTPC.
The company itself also organised a team for an internal inquiry committee.
Chinese app tiktok May organise a legal action against the ban. On Monday Indian government banned 59 apps including tiktok , UC browser , Shein , Club factory ,etc . Chinese app Tiktok is a video sharing platform which has millions of users only from India. Along with 58 others application Indian government banned tiktok , in charge of causing threat to national security as well as leaking personal data of the users.
From the law firm meeting on this matter one of the lawyer who have direct knowledge about this situation Said , tiktok is planning to speak to Indian government after seven days with claim that , tiktok is not misusing the data .
They also discussed, whether the government of India act as accordance to the procedure and if they had given them enough time to the company for their stand on this or not , was the key question discussed in the firm meeting .
One the lawyer also said that the company tiktok may took direct approach to supreme court if needed.
However the allegations made by Indian government is very serious which directly threat’s to national security. Under the section (69 A ) where government have the power to block online applications as well as online content if that platform is a threat to national security. This comes under the provision in information technology act.
It’s not the first time when Indian government banned or blocked tiktok. Last year on the issue related to cyber bullying , child pornograpy and adult content , Indian government had blocked the tiktok app. But just after one week the app was reinstated normally after approval from court.
The Railways on Wednesday formally kickstarted its plans to allow private entities to operate passenger trains on its network by inviting request for qualifications (RFQ) for participation on 109 pairs of routes through 151 modern trains, the national transporter said.
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The project would entail a private sector investment of about Rs 30,000 crore, it said.
This is the first initiative for private investment for running passenger trains on the Indian Railways network. It began last year with the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) introducing the Lucknow-Delhi Tejas Express.
Currently, the IRCTC operates three trains — the Kashi Mahakal Express on the Varanasi-Indore route, the Lucknow-New Delhi Tejas and the Ahmedabad-Mumbai Tejas.
“The objective of this initiative is to introduce modern technology rolling stock with reduced maintenance, reduced transit time, boost job creation, provide enhanced safety, provide world-class travel experience to passengers,” the Railways said.
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The 109 origin-destination routes have been formed into 12 clusters across the Indian Railway network. Each train shall have a minimum of 16 coaches, it said.
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The Railways also said that majority of these modern trains are to be manufactured in India as ”Make in India” and the private entity shall be responsible for financing, procuring, operating and maintaining the trains.
“Trains shall be designed for a maximum speed of 160 kmph. There would be a substantial reduction in journey time. The running time taken by a train shall be comparable to or faster than the fastest train of the Indian Railways operating in the respective route,” it said.
The concession period for the project shall be 35 years and the private entity shall pay the Indian Railways fixed haulage charges, energy charges as per actual consumption and a share in gross revenue determined through a transparent bidding process, the transporter said.
“These trains shall be operated by the driver and guard of Indian Railways. The operation of the trains by the private entity shall conform to the key performance indicators like punctuality, reliability, upkeep of trains etc,” the Railways said.
Operation and maintenance of the passenger trains would be governed by standards and specifications, and requirements specified by Indian Railways, it said.
The entire process of handing over certain routes to private players will be completed in two parts.
The first started on Wednesday with invite for RFQs wherein private bidders will qualify. The second step will be Request for Proposal (RFP). The details of revenue generation and routes will be decided during the latter process.
In the pre-COVID times, companies such as R K Catering, Adani Ports and MakeMyTrip and airlines, including Indigo, Vistara and SpiceJet, had shown interest in participating in operating private trains, sources said.
Other players whose attention has been attracted by this are global majors like Alstom Transport, Bombardier, Siemens AG and Macquarie, they said.
Aimed at offering airline-like services to train passengers, the national transporter has said that the private players, apart from fixing fares, have to also provide facilities like catering, cleaning and supply of beddings to passengers.
Earlier this year, the Niti Aayog and the Indian Railways came out with a discussion paper for running 150 trains on 100 routes by private operators, envisaging an investment of Rs 22,500 crore.
The discussion paper titled ”Private Participation: Passenger Trains” has identified 100 routes, including Mumbai Central-New Delhi, New Delhi- Patna, Allahabad-Pune and Dadar-Vadodara.
Other prominent routes include Howrah-Chennai, Howrah-Patna, Indore-Okhla, Lucknow-Jammu-Tawi, Chennai-Okhla, Anand Vihar-Bhagalpur, Secunderabad-Guwahati and Howrah-Anand Vihar.
Each bidder would eligible for award of maximum three clusters, according to the paper.
The Railway Board had in October last year formed an empowered group of secretaries, headed by Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant, to chalk out the modalities of the bidding process and take other decisions to fast-track awarding of bids to private players.
