China on Tuesday reached out to India, expressing anxiety about the ban imposed by the Indian government on popular Chinese mobile applications like TikTok and WeChat, among others. During a daily news briefing on Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told reporters in Beijing, “China is strongly concerned about the relevant notice issued by the Indian side. We are checking on and verifying the situation.” “We want to stress that the Chinese government always asks the Chinese businesses to abide by international and local laws and regulations,” Zhao said, adding that India also has a responsibility to uphold the…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today that a key government scheme to distribute free food grains to 80 crore of India’s poorest – 2.5 times the population of US – would be extended to November-end to give relief during the festival season as the country fights coronavirus. “Keeping in mind all the festivals that are coming up in the next few months, this scheme to provide 80 crore people with 5 kg free ration and 1 kg dal (pulses) per month will now be extended till Diwali and Chhath Puja, or till the end of November,” PM Modi said, addressing…
Actress Kareena Kapoor Khan, who made her Bollywood debut with JP Dutta”s “Refugee”, has completed 20 years in Bollywood on Tuesday. Taking to Instagram, Kareena went down memory lane and shared a still of her first shot from her first film. “My first shot was at 4 am… I woke up this morning at 4, looked in the mirror, and said to myself that this was the best decision I could have ever taken. 20 years of hard work, dedication, and self-confidence,” Kareena wrote. “Refugee” also marked the debut of actor Abhishek Bachchan. Thanking the team of “Refugee”, Kareena added:…
The religious community in South Korea is on alert over the possible further spread of the novel coronavirus as churches and Buddhist temples have emerged as new infection clusters in the country, it was reported on Tuesday. As of Tuesday, COVID-19 cases traced to a major church in Seoul’s southwestern ward of GWANAK reached 31, while those tied to a church in Anyang rose to 23, reports Yonhap News Agency. Eight people related to a church in Suwon, which has more than 9,000 congregants, tested positive for COVID-19. Moreover, at least 14 cases linked to Gwangleug Temple in Gwangju were…
National Security Council (NSC) has accused the Taliban of killing or injuring 24 civilians per day in the country since earlier this year. “On average, the Taliban has carried out 44 attacks and killed or wounded 24 civilians every day in Afghanistan since the February 22 reduction in violence week,” TOLO News quoted NSC spokesman Javid Faisal as saying in a tweet on Monday. Faisal called for a reduction in violence in the country. “The success of the Doha deal and peace in Afghanistan requires an immediate reduction in violence and the start of direct talks,” he added. The Taliban…
There are grounds to charge policemen with murder for the deaths of a man and his son arrested in Tamil Nadu earlier this month for keeping their shop open beyond curfew during the coronavirus lockdown, the Madras High Court said today based on post-mortem reports. Two police officers are “on wait” and a constable has been suspended for allegedly trying to block investigations into the deaths at Santhankulam in Tuticorin, which have been blamed on egregious beating and torture in custody. All three were summoned by the High Court today. The High Court has initiated contempt action against Deputy Superintendent…
Taj Mahal Palace hotel received a terror attack call from Pakistan. A bomb threat was made to the Taj Mahal Palace hotel in Colaba and the Taj Lands End hotel in Bandra in Mumbai, Maharashtra from Pakistan on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday. The caller, who identified himself as a member of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror outfit, threatened to blow-up the two hotels in Mumbai. Security has been beefed up at and around the hotels following the threatening calls from Pakistan. The first call received at around 12:30 am by the Taj Mahal palace staffers. The call was…
At least two people were killed and four taken ill late on Monday night after benzimidazole gas leaked at Sainor Life Sciences in Visakhapatnam’s Parawada Pharma City. The situation is under control now. The two persons who died were workers and were present at the leakage site. Gas has not spread anywhere else,”, said Uday Kumar, an inspector with the Parwada Police Station About 30 workers were in the factory at the time of the incident. District collector and other officials reached spot in the morning and ordered for inquiry. This is the second incident in the district in two…
The COVID-19 pandemic is not even close to being over, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing on Monday. Tedros noted that, six months after China first alerted the WHO to a novel respiratory infection, the grim milestones of 10 million confirmed infections and 500,000 deaths had been reached. “Most people remain susceptible, the virus still has a lot of room to move,” he said. “We all want this to be over. We all want to get on with our lives. But the hard reality is that this is not even close to being over. Although many…
Delhi recorded 2,084 fresh coronavirus cases on Monday. The fresh cases in Delhi took the infection tally to over 85,000, while the death toll rose to 2,680. So far, India has registered 5.4 lakh cases of coronavirus, while 16,475 have died due to Covid-19. Authorities in Guwahati have imposed a complete lockdown in Kamrup Metropolitan district till July 12 to check the spread of coronavirus. https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1277819933011910657?s=20 The total number of samples tested till June 29 is 86,08,654. Of the total, 2,10,292 samples were tested on Monday, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has said. The Indian government has announced guidelines…