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US President Donald Trump to revoke the special Status of Hong Kong.

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Jyoti B
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Donald Trump directed to end Hong Kong’s special status with the U.S. and signed legislation that would sanction Chinese officials responsible for cracking down on political dissent in the city.

“No special privileges, no special economic treatment and no export of sensitive technologies,” said the president, who first announced in May that his administration would begin paring back the territory’s special status of Hong Kong.

“The US attempt to obstruct the implementation of the national security law for Hong Kong will never succeed,” the statement said. China responded.

“Hong Kong affairs are purely China’s internal affairs and no foreign country has the right to interfere,” the ministry said China’s Foreign Minister.

During news conference held in the White House Rose Garden, Trump also said “Their freedom has been taken away; their rights have been taken away. And with it goes Hong Kong, in my opinion, because it will no longer be able to compete with free markets. A lot of people will be leaving Hong Kong,” 

The law had been passed with bipartisan support in Congress earlier this month.

The White House later released the full text of the executive order, outlining the penalties and suspensions, as well as newly reallocated admissions within the US refugee ceiling “to residents of Hong Kong based on humanitarian concerns”.

Ashok Lavasa, next in line CEC, appointed vice-president of Asian Development Bank

By
Shivani Negi
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Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa, who was slated to head the poll panel, has now been appointed the vice-president of Asian Development Bank. The announcement was made by the regional development bank on Wednesday.

Lavasa still has two years left in his term at the Election Commission of India. He is only the second election commisioner to step down before the completion of his term. He would have retired in October 2022 as the Chief Election Commissioner. As the next in line CEC, he would have conducted Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Uttarakhand, Goa and Punjab among other states.

Before Lavasa, chief election commissioner Nagendra Singh had retired without completing his term as he was appointed a judge in the International Court of Justice at The Hauge.

Lavasa, who is a retired 1980 batch IAS officer of the Haryana crade, was appointed an Election Commissioner in January 2018. During the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Lavasa didn’t agree with Election Commission of India’s decision to give clean chits to PM Narendra Modi and home minister Amit Shah for allegedly violating Model Code of Conduct(MCC).

Later, he was at the center of spotlight when his wife, Novel Singhal Lavasa was given notices from the income tax department for alleged tax evasion.

Lavasa holds an MBA degree from Southern Cross University in Australia, and MPhil in Defence and Strategic Studies degree from the University of Madras.

As vice-president of ADB, Lavasa will be succeeding, Diwakar Gupta, who retires on August 31.

Tamil Nadu government looking forward to convert Jayalalithaa’s house into official CM residence

By
Shivani Negi
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The Tamil Nadu government is actively considering converting a major portion of former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa’s residence, ‘Veda Nilyam’, into the official residence of CM instead of a memorial. Madras High Court has been notified about the same.

The information came when Madras court was hearing a plea filed by the Poes Garden Residents Association that challenged acquisition of Jayalalitha’s house by the Tamil Nadu government. The petition had sought the government to stop converting Poes Garden into a memorial as that would attract a lot of limelight, making the local residents of area refrain from a peaceful living.


Meanwhile, Advocate General Vijay Narayan in his plea to Justice Anand Venkatesh said: “It will become a tourist place for millions of Tamil. People visiting the state would visit the place more like people visiting the White House and the Lincoln Home when they visit the US or Shakespeare’s birthplace when they visit the UK.”

He also informed the Judge that along with the immovable property, all the other movable property will also be arranged in the similar fashion as it was during the time when Jayalalithaa lived.

The Judge then observed the plea made by advocate general Vijay Narayn and found out that houses of political leaders and influential people have been converted into memorials in the past.

However, the petitioners also accused the state government of acquiring the property illegally without consulting the residents.

After considering the submission made by both the sides, the judge culimintaed that rejecting the idea of a memorial for the peaceful living cannot be accepted. He dismissed the plea, calling the argument premature and apprehensive.

The resident of Jayalalithaa covers a wide are of 24,000 sq ft and was a place with high security. Not only localites, but even VVIPs couldn’t barge in until the permission from due authorities.

Dr. Nandlal Mehta ‘Vagish’ Died at the age of 80.

By
Jyoti B
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Linguist, Poetologist, Critic, Philosopher and Spiritual writer, Senior litterateur Dr. Nandlal Mehta Vagish, who was synonymous with Akhil Bharatiya Sahitya Parishad, died at the age of 80, at his residence on Wednesday morning. He was battling various physical ailments for the last two months after brain trauma. Dr. Nandlal Mehta, was the founding member of Sahitya Parishad Haryana.

The Chairman of the Pran Commission of the Council, Prof. Ramasjan Pandey, has called his death extremely painful and shocking.

Gurugram unit president Prof Kumud Sharma said that the death of Dr. Nandlal Mehta, the self-respecting All India Sahitya Parishad, is an irreparable loss to the literary field. Dr. who suggested the path of pursuing Hindi and literature. The historical contribution of Mehta will always be remembered.

He was recipient of the Highest Sur Award and Swami Vivekananda Award.

He is the author of several books like Bhaasha Darshan, Upanishad k Alok Mein, Gazalon Ne Likha Mujhko.

Joe Root to find the lost English rhythm

By
Harshit
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The first test match loss for England was the shock for many of us, with the return of their regular captain Joe Root the hosts looks much stronger. As of now, West Indies are top of England and the series win is the next target for the travelers.


32 Years Manchester tale for the West Indies

The two teams are all set to play the second test in Manchester. The last time West Indies won in Manchester was 32 years ago in a turning pitch, but this time the conditions are different the pitch will be useful for the fast bowlers. Last time 32 years ago, England produced a turning pitch to over-shadow the world-class Caribbean bowling attack which included Courtney Walsh, Curtly Ambrose, and Malcolm Marshall. West Indies won the test match by an innings and 156 runs with Malcolm Marshall taking seven wickets in the second innings.

Windies might go with the same team

The current visitor side comprises another fearless fast bowling attack, with Jason Holder and Shannon Gabriel in-charge of their bowling attack. Gabriel took 9 wicket haul in the last test match while Captain Holder took 7 wickets which included a 6 wicket haul in the first innings. The Windies may go with the same side but they might consider an extra off-spinner, addition of Rahkeem Cornwall in the playing 11 is one option, if the Old Trafford surface has typical bounce and rough. Holder confirmed the opener John Campbell is good to go for the this test match after being struck on the toe in the first test match.

The hosts are all set to make three changes

The English side is all set to make 3 changes with Captain Root coming back for Joe Denly, Stuart Broad for James Anderson, and left-arm pacer Sam Curran for Mark Wood. In 7 weeks Joe Root’s team has to play 6 test matches including the Pakistan series. So, at the same time, the rotation of players is also important for the hosts. West Indies are leading the series by 1-0 if hosts want to win the series they have to win this test match.

Sports minister of 18 states briefed Kiren Rijiju for the roadmap of Indian sports future.

By
Harshit
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The meeting went for two days with the hope of a positive and better result of Indian sports.
The meeting went for two days with the hope of a positive and better result of Indian sports.

Sports Minister of 18 states briefed the Union Minister Kiren Rijiju on the structure of Indian sports after the Covid-19 pandemic. The meeting went for two days with the hope of a positive and better result of Indian sports. The ministers discussed the various topics which included the promotion grass-root level sports as well as Olympic-level training sessions.

Kiren applauded the ministries and was confident about the future of Indian Sports


“The ministers and officers made a few valuable suggestions about sports and youth affairs related issues. They briefed me about their plans and preparations of the start of various sporting events in India”, said the MLA. The Youth Affair and sporting cabinet holder also added and applauded the way these federation responded and tackled this crisis.

Khelo India State Center of Excellence will be the first step


The panel also discussed setting up of Khelo India State Center of Excellence (KISCE) in each state and they also intended to follow the ‘One State Sport’ policy under the guidance of Kiren Rijiju. On the topic of funding and increasing the performance level Rijiju said, “The KISCEs is the the nodal center for an individual sport where athletes to get proper chance to groom themselves with the world-class facilities for Olympics”. The representatives also focussed on the roots of 1000 KISCEs across the country to tap the local talent, . The body will report directly the center and according to the Union Minister its first step of self-reliant sporting India.

CBSE 10th Board Results Announced.

By
Jyoti B
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CBSE class 10th results announced today, a total of 91.46% of students passed the exam among those appeared. As compared to last years performance of students,  this year students did 0.36% better.

The number of students who have scored more than 95% is about 41,804. Around 18 lakh students appeared in the CBSE class 10 examination 2020. 

The exams were scheduled to be conducted in the months of February and March, but it was disrupted due to Covid-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, the exams were also postponed across 86 centres located in Northeast and East Delhi due to violence in these areas. 

The students who think they could have done better if they had taken exams, can apply for CBSE optional examination. The date and time of CBSE optional exam will be released later by the Board. As the CBSE Board has released the 10th results on the basis of exams for which students have appeared.

Kendriya Vidyala Sangathan this year toped in the passing percentage at 99.23, followed by Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalya at 98.66.

In the transgender community, the overall pass percentage has decreased from last year, when it was at 94.74. While, this year, 78.95 % cleared the board exam.

The passing percentage of girl student is 93.31%  And 90.14%  boys passed the exam successfully.

As per the details available right now, Trivandrum region has again topped in terms of success ratio of students with 99.28% pass percentage. It is closely followed by Chennai with 98.95% pass percentage and Bengaluru with 98.23 pass percentage. Guwahati is the worst performing district for Class 10 with 79.12% pass percentage.

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it”.

“I scored 92% in my Board exam. The credit of my success goes to my parents, teacher. And a special thanks to my elder sister who supported me a lot for achieving that States. I worked so hard and used to study 8 to 9 hours in a day. I always used to make target and then achieve it in a day. My strategy was to practice question and go through the questions that were asked in previous year”, Said Kaushik Vats, Student of Sarla Birla Public School Ranchi and son of Prafulla Mishra and Kiran Mishra.

Air India to send some employees on ‘leave without pay’ for up to 5 years

By
Shivani Negi
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The national carrier Air India has instituted a ‘leave without pay(LWP)’ scheme under which employees are allowed to take leaves from six months to five years.

It also announced that the airline management can also send some staffers depending on their suitability, efficiency and health.

Rajiv Bansal, Chairman and Managing Director of Air India, has been assigned to send employees on LWP “for six months or for a period of two years extendable up to five years, depending upon the following factors – suitability, efficiency, competence, quality of performance, health of the employee, instance of non-availability of the employee for duty in the past as a result of ill health or otherwise and redundancy”, the official order said on Tuesday.

Air India currently has 13,000 permanent employees whose monthly wages costs Rs 230 crore to the company. With flights being suspended since months in the wake of coronavirus outbreak, the airline is suffering major loss.

Now, both the regional directors and headquarters’ departmental heads are ordered to compile a list of names for complusory LWP by August 15.

Just like any other industry, the aviation industry is suffering major financial crunch amid the coronavirus pandemic. Earlier, in April, GoAir also announced that it will be sending majority of its employees on LWP.


Meanwhile, India has resumed flights or domestic passengers from May 25 with added safety measures. Only 45 percent of pre-covid domestic flights have been allowed to operate. However, international passengers flight continues to be banned in India since the first lockdown which was enforced on March 23.

Goa announces three-day lockdown from Friday to control coronavirus spread

By
Shivani Negi
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Goa Chief Minsiter Pramod Sawant has introduced new lockdown restictions in the state to curb Covid-19 spread. The lockdown will start Thursday at 8 pm and will be applicable until Monday 6 am.

In addition to this, a fresh daily night curfew from 8 pm to 6 pm, starting Wednesday until August 10, will also come in force in the state.

Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, Sawant expressed his concern over the rapid increase in Covid-19 tally in the state. He further added that monsoon season will require added precautions, making it necessary to enforce hygiene amid the heavy rainfall.

“We are in mid-July, when the state receives the highest rainfall. On Tuesday, the state reported 170 Covid-19 positive cases, which is the highest single-day spike so far. The figure could rise in the coming days. There is a lack of seriousness to contain the viral outbreak. The need of the hour is to create more awareness among the public and stricter compliance with all standard operating procedures (SOPs). A section of the public has started holding parties while flouting all social distancing norms with impunity,” he was quoted as saying.

“The public only understands the language of the law. The state has reported over 1,000 active Covid-19 positive cases and 18 deaths,” Sawant further added.

The Chief Minister also asked citizens to take the night curfew seriously, adding that strict actions would be taken against the violators. However, people associated with essential services or facing any medical emergencies would be allowed movement during the curfew hours, he added.

“The ‘Janata Curfew’ will last from 8 pm to 6 am daily, with exceptions for essential services or those working night shifts in industries or medical emergencies. The curfew will be in place till August 10… violators will be imprisoned,” Sawant said.

Meanwhile, Goa saw the biggest spike in covid-19 cases on Tuesday with 170 fresh cases. The state has so far recorded 18 deaths with half of them reported in the past three days.

HRD Minister To Launch ‘COROSURE’ World’s Most Affordable Test Kit For COVID-19.

By
Jyoti B
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IIT Delhi developed a low-cost covid-19 test kit. Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh pokhriyal Nishank and Minister of State Sanjay Dhire, launched the kit on Wednesday.

Jatin Goyal the Managing Director of COROSURE, said the total cost of the kit is around Rs.500, making at the world’s most affordable covid-19 testing kit.

The kit is approved by ICMR and Drug Controller General of India also COROSURE is one of the companies that has been granted the non-exclusive licence for the probe free RT PCR based covid-19 test kit.

“The company Newtech Medical Devices, using IIT Delhi technology, can do two million tests per month at an extremely affordable cost. This is a true example of lab to market,” said IIT Delhi Director V Ramgopal Rao.

Using comparative sequence analyses, the IIT Delhi team identified unique regions (short stretches of RNA sequences) in the COVID-19 and SARS COV-2 genome. “These unique regions are not present in other human coronaviruses providing an opportunity to specifically detect COVID-19,” Professor Vivekanandan Perumal, lead member of the team, told PTI.

Vivekanandan Perumal, assistant professor at the Kusuma School of Biological Sciences said “Most of the test kits that are currently available in the market are using a probe, which is the most expensive element. We are not using that for the test. It is successful at the laboratory level, but now we have sent it for clinical trials to NIV Pune, and are awaiting the results from them”.

On K Kamaraj’s 117th birth anniversary, check out some unknown facts about the Kingmaker

By
Shivani Negi
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Today marks the 117th birth anniversary of one of the greatest post-independence leaders and pre-independence freedom fighters of India, Kumarswamy Kamaraj, fondly known as the Kingmaker. A renowned politician, activist and statesman, Kamaraj started his political career during India’s struggle of independence.

Starting as merely a campaigner, he went on to become a legislator in the Madras Presidency, and was later appointed the Chief Minister of Madras. On the occasion of the Kingmaker’s birth-anniversary, here are some unknown facts about him:

After the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, Kamaraj decided to devote his life to India’s fight for freedom from British rule.

He was one of the very few leaders who raised their voices against injustice towards lower caste citizens in India. In 1922, he joined Vaikom Satyagraha that called out atrocities of the higher caste Hindus against Harijans.

During India’s struggle for freedom, Kamaraj was jailed multiple times — in 1930, he was jailed for his active participation in the salt Satyagraha movement and in 1937, he was jailed for protesting against the arrest of Mahatma Gandhi.

He was appointed the Chief Minister of Madras Province in 1954. After his appointment as the Chief Minister of Madras(now Tamilnadu), the education rate in the state rose from 7 percent to 37 percent. He introduced new irrigation schemes, built new dams and canals for which the state is known today.

Major industries such as Neyveli Lignite Corporation, BHEL, Manali Oil Refinery, Hindustan raw photo film factory, a railway coach factory and a few other industries such as paper, sugar, and chemicals were introduced during Kamaraj’s government.

In 1963, he resigned from the post of Chief Minister under the Kamaraj Plan which suggested that senior Congress leader should leave the ministerial posts.

He was elected the president of Indian National Congress after his resignation from the post of Cheif Minsiter in 1963.

Kamaraj had a chance to become the Prime Minister of India but instead suggested Lal Bahadur Shastri and Indira Gandhi’s name for the post. His reason of refusal was — he did not know either Hindi or English and believed that Prime Minister of India should be fluent in at least one of these languages.

On October 2, 1975, Gandhi Jayanti, Kamaraj felt uneasy after waking from a nap. His house help, Vairavan, informed his physician. Before the physician could make it to Kamaraj’s house, he had died.

Covid Update: India’s records highest recovery rate in 24 hours.

By
Neha Kumari
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HIGHLIGHTS-

  • Covid-19 cases in country have been increased over 26,000 in a day.
  • Covid-19 related death climb to 24309.
  • In 24 hours 20570 to patients were cured.
  • Total 5902031 patient cured from corona-virus.

Today number of fresh Corona cases in India raises to 29492 in a single day.Now the total corona-virus cases tally to 936181.And that death toll climb to 24309.
Notably, recovery rate is improving.
In past 24 hours, 20572 patients were declared cured, highest number of patient cured in a single day. Now overall tally of recoveries is 5920310.

But still there are 319840 active cases currently in India

According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), 1.24 crore samples had been tested for COVID-19 till July 14, including 3.2 lakh samples tested on Tuesday.

Human clinical trials for a vaccine for COVID-19 has been initiated in the country with approximately 1,000 volunteers participating in the exercise for each of the two indigenous developed vaccine candidates, the ICMR said on Tuesday.

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal said that Delhi in a better situation, as compared to June, but it does not mean we have won the war against Covid-19. We are conducting 20,000-23,000 Covid-19 tests in Delhi every day. Covid-19 situation in Delhi under control but we do not have to be complacent. We will continue our preparations.Because of this, today people have the confidence that in case they need to be hospitalized, there will be no shortages.

STATE HIGHLIGHT-

  • With the number of COVID-19 cases crossing the nine lakh-mark on Tuesday, the health ministry said that 86 per cent of the total active cases are confined to 10 affected states with Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu accounting for 50 per cent of them.
  • Goa government has decided to enforce janta curfew from 8pm to 6am beginning from Wednesday till August 10.
  • Citing Covid-19, govt allows civil services candidates to get medical tests done in states, UTs, reports PTI.
  • Around 20 staff members at governor house have tested positive for Covid-19, reports ANI.

US Retailer Walmart announced it will lead a 1.2 billion Investment in Its e-Commerce Business Flipkart.

By
Jyoti B
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Walmart is increasing its majority-stake in Flipkart by leading a new $1.2 billion financing round in the Indian e-commerce giant. Which it had acquired in 2018, at a valuation of $24.9 billion. Walmart, acquired a majority stake (77%) in Flipkart for $16 billion.

The development come at a time when domestic rival Reliance Industries’ e-commerce venture JioMart is busy raising billions of dollars from marquee investors.

“The investment is led by Walmart, Flipkart Group’s majority owner, along with a group of existing shareholders and values the company at $24.9 billion post-money. It will be funded in two tranches over the remainder of the fiscal year,” Flipkart said in a press statement.

Walmart International president and CEO Judith McKenna said, “Flipkart continues to leverage its culture of innovation to accelerate growth and enable millions of customers, sellers, merchants and small businesses to prosper and be a part of India’s digital transformation”.

“Today, we lead in electronics and fashion and are rapidly accelerating share in other general merchandise categories and grocery…We will continue innovating to bring the next 200 million Indian shoppers online,” said Kalyan Krishnamurthy, CEO of Flipkart Group.

The latest investment by Walmart in Flipkart aims “to support continued development of its eCommerce marketplace as India emerges from the Covid-19 crisis,” the company stated

Rajasthan: Sachin Pilot removed as deputy Chief Minister.

By
Neha Kumari
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Sachin Pilot says “I am still the congressman”. Pilot want to reach Gandhi, stressing that chatter of him joining the BJP is an exercise “to malign him with Gandhi”.

Mr Pilot’s comment came as his party began a new round of punitive activities against him for “anti party activities”.

“Some leaders in Rajasthan trying to fuel speculation that I am joining BJP but I am not doing so. I have worked very hard to bring Congress back in govt in Rajasthan,” Pilot told the PTI.

Congress previously has sent him a notice to explain why he should not be disqualified as the member of the legislative Assembly.

Now yesterday Sachin Pilot was removed both as Deputy Chief Minister of Rajasthan as well as from the post of president of the Congress brand in the state.

After being dismissed by the Congress from every office he held in Rajasthan , Sachin Pilot tweeted on Tuesday, “The truth can be harassed but not defeated.” A few hours later, he expressed, again on Twitter, his thanks to his supporters.

“I am not joining the BJP,” Mr Pilot said this morning when he torched the crisis now subsuming the party.

The threat level to the Congress government in Rajasthan has gone down, said sources, with Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot claiming the support of 105 MLAs, four more than he needs for a majority.

Google, Facebook and Microsoft join Lawsuit against student visa new rule.

By
Neha Kumari
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On Monday more than dozen American technology companies including Google Facebook and Microsoft join a lawsuit.

The lawsuit is filed by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of technology.

Lawsuit is against Immigration and Custom Enforcement new rule that restrict international student from staying in US unless they attend at least one in-person course.

On July 7, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement had said it would not allow foreign students to remain in the country for the autumn semester if all their university classes are moved online because of the coronavirus crisis. The rule applies to all F-1 and M-1 visa holders. While F-1 visa holders pursue academic courses, M-1 students pursue “vocational coursework”.

The companies have argued that the ban will “inflict significant harm” on their businesses by reducing their customer base . “America’s future competitiveness depends on attracting and retaining talented international students,” the companies added. “Individuals who come here as international students are also essential to educating the next generation of inventors.”

“Finally, they become valuable employees and customers of US businesses whether they remain in the United States or return to their home countries,” it said.

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