CCI has ordered investigation against Google trade

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November 11, 2020

For the first time in two decades, BJP’s seats in Nitish Kumar have come down. In such a situation, even though Nitish Kumar’s to wear CM crown, but the representation of JDU in the cabinet may be less than the last time. This time not only BJP and JDU but also Jitanram Manjhi’s HAM and Mukesh Sahni’s VIP party will be participating in Nitish’s cabinet.

Nitish Kumar-led NDA has won 125 seats out of 243 seats this time in Bihar elections, out of which 74 seats have been won by BJP, 43 seats by JDU, 4 seats by Hindustan Awam Morcha and four seats by VIPs. In this way, NDA BJP is the largest party and JDU is the second party. Apart from this, the party of Manjhi and Sahni is in such a situation, with the help of which the NDA is able to cross the majority figure. In such a situation, Nitish Kumar is compelled to give him a place in his cabinet. Before this, only BJP and JDU ministers were made in Nitish’s government.

Ministers can make up 15 percent of the total members in the assembly. There are a total of 243 assembly members in Bihar, based on which 36 ministers can be made. Nitish’s previous government had a total of 31 ministers, including the JDU quota, including the chief minister, and 17 ministers from the BJP quota. Apart from this, Vijay Chaudhary was the Speaker of the JDU quota.

However, at that time BJP had 53 MLAs and JDU had 71 MLAs. On this basis, the formula for the number of ministers in the cabinet was decided. Whose share in the assembly, the same participation in his cabinet.

OTT platforms including Netflix, Amazon Prime and others to be regulated by government now

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November 11, 2020

Online news platforms, content providers and over-the-top platforms will now be controlled by the Information and Broadcasting ministry, an order issued by governemnt said. The notification has been signed by President Ram Nath Kovind.

While the Press Council of India and News Broadcast Association (NBA) monitor print media and news channels respectively, there is not law or civic body to govern digital content.

Ever since the boom in OTT content, there has been demand of forming a regulatory board to monitor these platforms.

Last month, the Supreme Court asked the centre to react on a petition for regulating OTT paltforms by an autonomous body. The apex court had issued notices to various boards to respond to the petition.

OTT platforms are responsible for providing content on the web. They include news portals and also streaming services such as Hotstar, Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, which are accessible over the internet or ride on an operator’s network.

Time and again, the government had signaled on the need of controlling the content on the web. Over the years, a section of the society has raised eyebrows on the nudity, obscenity and abusive language used on the web shows.

While it is true that the OTT platforms have paved way for the content rich cinema, there is no denying in the fact that the freedom has also led to the unnecessary display of various things.

Meanwhile, in a complete contrary statement, Information and Broadcast Minister Prakash Javedkar had said that the government isn’t planning to take any steps to control media freedom, emphasising that there should be some kind of self-regulation on over-the-top platforms.

Following Union Minister’s remark, eight video streaming services had signed a self-regulatory code that led the foundation of guiding principles for digital content.

As conventional theatre remained suspended amid the pandemic for 7 months, most of the filmmakers expressed confidence in OTT streaming. Even the theatres have resumed services now with 50 per cent capacity, content on OTT platforms is expected to see progress due to its easy and affordable availability.

Cardi B apologises after posing Ike goddess Durga for the magazine cover

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November 11, 2020

When Rapper Cardi B set out to promote her debut sneaker collection with Reebok, little did she know that she would end up being embroiled in controversy.

It all started after pictures of the 28-year-old rapper posing as Hindu Goddess ‘Durga’, in a bid to promote her her Reebook collaboration, went viral.

The post mentions that it a homage to Goddess Durga. “In a Georges Hobeika dress, she pays homage to Durga, the Hindu goddess, whose symbols of protection and inner strength resonate as much in modern times as they have through the centuries.

Like Durga, Cardi B is a dominant female voice at a critical time.”

“People are saying Cardi B is paying homage to our Hindu goddess Durga. So as a Hindu I want to say that: 1-Wearing a shoe in a temple is prohibited 2-Durga maa is not to be used as an aesthetic 3-Durga maa is NEVER depicted bare-bodied 4-THIS. IS. NOT. HOMAGE. IT’S. DISRESPECT,” wrote a Twitter user.

After some time Cardi B took to Instagram to apologise for offending people’s religious sentiments. She said, “Sorry guys, I didn’t mean to offend or disrespect anyone’s culture. I can’t change the past but I will be more cautious for the future. When I did the Reebok shoot, the creator told me that I will be representing a Goddess that stands for strength, femininity, liberation and that’s something I love and I am all about it. I did not intend to hurt anyone’s religious sentiments.”

The Grammy awardee, together with Reebok, will launch her sneaker line, Club C Cardi, on Friday, November 13. “NOVEMBER 13th all Blacks is dropping,” The 28-year-old rapper captioned her announcement post, which shows her holding up a black platform sneaker.

On Sunday night, Cardi teased her sneaker line with an Instagram video of a pair being delivered to her home in a lip-shaped box.

The sneaker launch will mark the latest Cardi B collaboration with Reebok, following lines of sweatshirts, fleece hoodies, and face covers. Cardi has partnered with other clothing brands, including Fashion Nova, Steve Madden and Balenciaga.

SC to hear Arnab’s bail plea

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November 11, 2020

Today the Supreme Court will hear bail plea of Republic TV Editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami. Arnab challenged the Bombay High Court’s order in which he was denied bail.

The Mumbai Police arrested Arnab in an abetment to suicide case on November 4 along with two other accused.

Later the Bombay High Court rejected his bail petition but gave him the liberty to move to session courts.

Meanwhile, Arnab’s wife Samyabrata Ray Goswami came forward to defend her husband and wrote a letter to Supreme Court’s Secretary-General.

Govt approves PLI scheme worth ₹2 lakh crore

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November 11, 2020

The Union Cabinet has given its approval to the Production Linked Incentives (PLI) scheme for 10 sectors, under which businesses will get incentives worth over Rs 2 lakh crore in 5 years.

The PLI scheme intends to enhance India’s manufacturing capabilities and enhancing exports.

It will make Indian manufacturers globally competitive, attract investment and enhance exports, said Union Minister Prakash Javadekar while interacting with media after Cabinet meeting.

The 10 key sectors that will get the benefit of production-linked incentive include automobiles and auto components, pharmaceuticals drugs, specialty steel, capital goods, technology products, white goods (ACs and LEDs), telecom and networking products, textiles, high efficiency solar PV modules and advanced battery cells.

Earlier, the Centre had rolled out a similar scheme for electronics manufacturing sector, particularly for mobile phone manufacturing, to curb increasing imports.

The government announced the PLI scheme earlier this year for mobile phones, pharma products, and medical equipment sectors with the view to make India a manufacturing hub and boost exports.

The PLI scheme, unlike other schemes, is an outcome- and output-oriented programme where manufacturers get cash incentives over 5-7 years for production.

IPL 2021 might have addition of a new team

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November 11, 2020

The Board of Control for Cricket in India is planning to add a ninth team in the Indian Premier League and will have a mega auction ahead of the 2021 season, The Hindu reported.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) successfully managed to hold the 13th edition of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 in the UAE as the lucrative T20 tournament concluded on Tuesday.

The BCCI has reportedly begin preparations for the next IPL season as it has informally told the eight franchises of its plan to hold a mega players auction in 2021 before the 14th edition of the T20 tournament starts.

The new franchise is likely to be from Ahmedabad, where the Gujarat Cricket Association has refurbished the stadium with a record capacity of 1,10,000. edition was delayed to September and played in a bio-bubble in the United Arab Emirates.

After Pfizer, Sputnik-V vaccine 92% effective claims Russia

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November 11, 2020

India’s COVID-19 caseload went past 86 lakh on Wednesday, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 80.13 lakh, pushing the national recovery rate to 92.79 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry’s data.

The initial results are only the second to be published from a late-stage human trial in the global effort to produce vaccines that could halt a pandemic that has killed more than 1.2 million people and ravaged the world economy.

The results are based on data from the first 16,000 trial participants to receive both shots of the two-dose vaccine, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which has been backing its development and marketing it globally, said.

Russia registered its Covid-19 vaccine for public use in August, the first country to do so, though the approval came before the start of the large-scale trial in September.

“We are showing, based on the data, that we have a very effective vaccine,” said RDIF head Kirill Dmitriev, adding that it was the sort of news that the vaccine’s developers would talk about one day with their grandchildren.

Russia’s announcement follows swiftly on from results posted on Monday by vaccine developers Pfizer Inc and BioNTech. The drugmaker said that their shot was also more than 90% effective.

Akshay Kumar starts campaign ‘ Ab Humari Bari ‘ for transgenders, celebrities joins him

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November 11, 2020

Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar’s film Lakshmi is releases on 9 November. The actor has launched a campaign. Under the campaign named “Ab Hamari Bari”, Akshay has appealed to people to post their photos by putting a red dot on the Instagram with the help of filters. Many stars are now joining this campaign.

Actually, Akshay Kumar has shared a photo with his red dot on social media. After this, many stars and common people also started joining this campaign and they are sharing the photo on social media by putting red dot on their photo. Bigg Boss 13 winner Siddharth Shukla has also assisted in this campaign. He too has shared his dotted photo and wrote in the caption, “We really appreciate the initiative Akki Sir has started. We have to take a step forward and show love acceptance and support for third gender, Let’s put red dots and all are together because now it is our turn to support those who have supported us till today. “

Also Milind has shared a photo of himself on his Twitter handle in which he is seen in the look of transgender. Milind has given a caption with his photo giving that ‘I am going to Chennai after spending a few days in Karjat near Mumbai. I know it is not Holi but when you have a chance to act, you do not ask questions about time and place….”

RJD defeated BJP in terms of Votes and seats

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November 11, 2020

In short, the result of the Bihar assembly elections is that the NDA, led by Nitish Kumar, has a majority and the Grand Alliance has stayed away from power. But after scrutinizing the results data, many interesting things are coming out. Tejashwi Yadav may not have reached power to his party Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), but he has definitely defeated BJP in terms of votes and seats. Comparing the figures for the 2015 assembly elections gives even more interesting facts.

The NDA won 225 seats in the elections held in 243 seats in three phases, while the Grand Alliance gave a tough fight to 110 seats. Speaking of NDA’s allies, BJP has got 74 seats, JDU has 43 seats, VIP and Ham have 4-4 seats. The largest party is RJD, which has got 75 seats. The Congress has got 19 seats and the Left parties a total of 16 seats.

According to reports vote share, RJD has got the highest number of votes at 23.1 percent. A total of 97 lakh 36 thousand 242 people pressed the button in front of the lantern in the EVM. At the same time, BJP is second in this case, which 19.46 percent of the people voted, i.e. 82 lakh 1 thousand 408 voters pressed the lotus button. Nitish Kumar’s party, which is going to take the oath of Chief Minister for the seventh time, voted for the party by 15.4 percent i.e. 64 lakh 84 thousand 414 people. 9.5 lakh voters ie 39 lakh 95 thousand 3 voters voted for the Congress. LJP was able to win only 1 seat with 5.66 per cent (23 lakh 83 thousand 457) votes while AIMIM won 5 seats with 1.24 per cent ie 5 lakh 23 thousand 279 votes. Others have 18.8 percent of the vote.

National education day

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November 11, 2020

Today, Education Day is being celebrated in the country. In the memory of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the first Education Minister of India, the country celebrates National Education Day on 11 November. The Ministry of Human Resource Development announced on September 11, 2008 that Abul Kalam Azad has contributed to the field of education in India, so the birthday of this great son of India will be celebrated as Education Day by remembering him.

Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad was not only a reformer, freedom fighter and a scholar, but was committed to building the nation through education. Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad was the first Education Minister of independent India. He served the country from August 15, 1947 to February 2, 1958. The Ministry of Human Resource Development announced on 11 September 2008 that the Ministry has decided to celebrate the birthday of this great son of India, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, remembering his contribution in the field of education in India. The HRD ministry said, “From 2008 to November 11, every year will be celebrated as National Education Day without declaring a holiday.
The credit of the establishment of the Indian Institute of Technology and University Grants Commission goes to Maulana Azad.

He also established excellent institutions like Sangeet Natak Akademi (1953), Sahitya Akademi (1954) and Lalitkala Academy (1954) for the development of education and culture.

There is no holiday for this day. On this day, seminars, essay competitions, rallies etc. are held in schools.

Delhi-NCR continue to breathe polluted air with AQI shooting all time high

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November 11, 2020

The residents of Delhi-NCR continued to breathe toxic air as the air pollution level records all time high. The Air Quality remained under ‘severe’ category in Delhi and its adjoining areas. The regular stubble burning in the neighbouring areas of Delhi continued, pushing the AQI beyond dangerous level .

As of Wednesday morning, System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR) reported AQI at 724whole PM2.5 has now become the lead pollutant instead of PM10 as a characteristic of wintertime.

On Tuesday, the 24-hour average AQI of Delhi was 476. The neighbouring cities of Faridabad (345), Ghaziabad (390), Noida (339), Greater Noida(322), and Gurgaon (309), which fall in the National Capital Region, also recorded air quality under “very poor” quality.

SAFAR forecast

“The calm wind is forecast for the next 24 hrs. The air quality is likely to improve on Wednesday to the lower end of ‘severe’ to higher end of ‘very poor’ category owing to a forecast change in transport level wind direction and marginally better ventilation condition. The SAFAR synergized stubble fire counts over Punjab, Haryana, UP, Uttarakhand, and neighbouring areas have marginally reduced since last reported but still significantly high and stood at 2,247 Monday. Stubble burning share in PM2.5 in Delhi’s air is estimated at 22% for Tuesday,” said SAFAR prediction.

Air pollution in Delhi usually shoots high in the months of October and November due to farmers burning off stubble in neighbouring states, unfavourable wind speed and local emission of traffic fumes in the city.

The situation is expected to become even severe as firecrackers ignited for Diwali add to the problem.

Meanwhile, the air pollution may intensify the covid-19 situation in the country. The national capital is already reporting its all time high number cases, breaching 7,000 mark since last few days.

On Saturday, Indian Council of Medical Research said that the air pollution may lead to faster spread of the virus which can further result in high mortality rate.

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World leaders congratulate President-elect Biden, Trump refuses to concede

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November 11, 2020

Congratulations are in order for US President-elect Joe Biden as leaders from all over the world telephoned him. While the global leaders look forward to establish resourceful relationship with the 46th president of the United States, top diplomat Mike Pompeo has emphasised that Trump would remain in power.

On Tuesday, Biden received congratulatory calls from British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel for winning the presidential election.

“I’m letting them know that America is back. We’re going to be back in the game. It’s not America alone,” Biden told reporters in his home state of Delaware.

The transition team has said that Biden plans to work with Europeans on covid-19 as they also grapples from Covid-`19 fear.

Biden praised Merkel’s leadership and said that they would together be working for r “revitalizing the trans-Atlantic relationship, including through NATO and the EU.”

Johnson and Biden talked for 20 minutes. Johnson later tweeted,”promoting democracy and building back better from the pandemic,” employing the slogan from the Democrat’s campaign.

Meanwhile, Trump keeps refusing to concede and has vowed legal challenges, alleging fraud in the elections. “There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration,” Pompeo said in a sometimes testy news conference.

Biden, on the other hand, insisted that he is all set to transition into the White House. “We are already beginning the transition, we are well underway, and the ability for the administration in any way the failure to recognise our win does not change the dynamic of what we are able to do,” Biden said while addressing a press conference at Wilmington, Delaware.

called President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede his election loss an “embarrassment” but dismissed the standoff calling it “unimportant”. “I just think it’s an embarrassment, quite frankly,” Biden said

“How can I say this tactfully? I think it will not help the president’s legacy,” Biden added. “The fact that they’re not willing to acknowledge we won at this point is not of much consequence in our planning,” Biden said.

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Covid-19 India update: 44,281 cases, 512 deaths in last 24-hour

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November 11, 2020

India’s covid-19 case tally rose to 86,36,012 with 44,281 fresh infections in last 24-hour. The covid-19 death toll reached 1,27,571 with 512 fresh fatalities.

The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 80,13,784 pushing the national recovery rate to 92.64 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wedneday .

The COVID-19 case fatality rate stands at 1.48 per cent. There are 4,94,657 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which include 5.88 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated.

Here’re some more updates related to covid-19:

*Delhi registered highest single-day spike with 7,745 new cases, taking its total count to 438, 529.

*Active cases drop below 5 lakh mark for the first time after 106 days, says health ministry

*Mexico reports 5,746 new coronavirus cases, 617 new deaths.

*Jharkhand’s total caseload soared high to 1,04,940 on Wednesday as 252 more people tested positive for the infection, a health official said.

*Brazil reported 25,012 additional confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, and 201 deaths from Covid-19, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday.

*Norway gives quarantine exemption to 2020 Nobel winners

*If Pfizer Inc succeeds in submitting the positive initial data from its COVID-19 vaccine trial to health regulators, the U.S. government plans to begin vaccinating Americans in December, Health Secretary Alex Azar said on Tuesday.

*Russia confirmed 20,977 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing its national caseload to 1,817,109, the country’s COVID-19 response center said in a statement.

* Bangladesh on Tuesday reported 1,699 new Covid-19 cases and 16 fatalities, which increased the country’s overall infection tally and death toll to 423,620 and 6,108, respectively, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said.

*Breaking all previous records, the United States reported 201,961 new cases in 24-hour.

*In the 24-hour period, 1,535 deaths from Covid-19 were registered, a record in recent months as the third covid-19 wave grapples the US.

Meanwhile, The global tally of coronavirus cases stands at 51,227,995.

NDA has got 125 seats, Who Will Be Next CM of Bihar

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