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  • India News | 19 October 2021

    India News | 19 October 2021
    Oct 19 2021
    Listen to the latest news from India by Aastha in English for local, national, international, business, and entertainment stories that matter. Podcasts are updated once a day. Host: Aastha Lead producer: Vishwapriya Executive Producer: Khushboo Shah Audio Branding: Side B www.sideb.in Produced by: Spooler Studios www.spooler.in Download Alexa Skill: https://amzn.to/3yQWQ6g Social: https://www.instagram.com/spoolerstudios/   Transcript: National News: 1. The Uttar Pradesh Police Monday nabbed four more people in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case. The total number of arrests in the case has now reached 10. 2. CBSE Board Exams 2021-22 would be conducted in two terms this year onwards - in Nov-Dec and in Mar-Apr. CBSE Class 12 Term 1 Exams begin December 1 for Major Exams, ends on December 22. CBSE Class 12 Date Sheet Term 1 Exams has been released and is now available on cbse.gov.in. 3. WHO on Covaxin approval submission said that it cannot cut corners and is expecting more information from Bharat Biotech. Bharat Biotech has been submitting data to WHO on a rolling basis. 4. Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait has said that MoS Home Ajay Mishra should be arrested for his role in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident. Meanwhile, On Monday, October 18, more than 150 trains across the country were stopped by farm law protesters demanding the dismissal of Union minister Ajay Mishra from the home ministry  5. Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and four others have been sentenced to life imprisonment in the murder of manager Ranjit Singh nearly two decades ago. Ram Rahim will also pay a Rs 31 lakh fine.  6. operation against militants Encounter in Poonch enters Day 7; and three locals were held for questioning. These locals have been suspected to have provided logistics support to the militants who are thought to have come from Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) two and a half months ago. 7. The death toll following flash floods and landslides in Kerala rose to 27 on Monday as more bodies were pulled out from under rubble and debris at Kootkal in Kottayam district and Kokkayar in neighboring Idukki district. The central government is close monitoring the situation.   International News: 1. China’s GDP grew by 4.9 per cent in the third quarter, down from 7.9 per cent in the second, confirming the slowdown of the world’s second-largest economy 2. China’s parliament will consider legislation to punish parents if their young children exhibit “very bad behaviour” or commit crimes. guardians will be reprimanded and ordered to go through family education guidance programmes if prosecutors find very bad or criminal behaviour in children under their care. 3. Health workers in Afghanistan will begin a house-to-house polio vaccination drive next month after the new Taliban government agreed to support the campaign, the World Health Organization and the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF said on Monday 4. Myanmar will release a total of 5,636 prisoners jailed for protesting the coup that ousted the civilian government, the head of the country’s military junta said Monday. 5. Japan has become a stunning, and somewhat mysterious, coronavirus success story. Daily new COVID-19 cases have plummeted to now routinely below 100, an 11-month low. 6. New Zealand is making a four-fold increase in foreign aid spending on countries most vulnerable to climate change, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday.   Regional News: 1. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday condemned the targeted killing of Bihari migrant workers in Jammu and Kashmir, saying the incidents have created an “environment of fear”. 2. According to data shared by the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Delhi has received 94.6 mm of rain in October so far, the highest in 65 years 3. Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday visited Bengaluru and inspected several areas which reported damages in the wake of the heavy rains that lashed the city recently. He also announced that a master plan will be prepared to solve issues plaguing the drainage system. 4. A Shiv Sena leader has moved the Supreme Court seeking judicial enquiry into affairs of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) at Mumbai and its officials in the wake of the arrest of Aryan Khan 5. With the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections likely to take place in February 2022, Shiv Sena’s deputy leader and Standing Committee Chairman Yashwant Jadhav has said that the “unhappy” BJP corporators are likely to join Sena by December 6. Police in the Hubbali region of Karnataka arrested a pastor on Monday on charges of abusing a Dalit man and forcing him to convert into Christianity. 7. Over 76% of Haryana’s population has Covid-19 antibodies, the third sero survey conducted in the state has revealed.   Business News:  1. The government is pushing to get the IPO of state-backed LIC across the line by next March and any delay ...
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  • India News | 18 October 2021

    India News | 18 October 2021
    Oct 18 2021
    Listen to the latest news from India by Aastha in English for local, national, international, business, and entertainment stories that matter. Podcasts are updated once a day. Host: Aastha Lead producer: Vishwapriya Executive Producer: Khushboo Shah Audio Branding: Side B www.sideb.in Produced by: Spooler Studios www.spooler.in Download Alexa Skill: https://amzn.to/3yQWQ6g Social: https://www.instagram.com/spoolerstudios/   Transcript: National News: 1. Intense rainfall will continue in over 22 states and Union Territories till October 21, India Meteorological Department said in a statement on Sunday.  2. The body of Army personnel Captain Jayant Joshi was found at the Ranjit Sagar dam reservoir near Pathankot on Sunday, more than two months after the helicopter he was flying crashed at the site. 3. Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait Sunday said that the lynching of a man at the Singhu border was a “religious matter”, and has no connection with the ongoing farmers’ protest. 4. The WHO technical advisory group will meet on October 26th, to consider “Emergency Use Listing” for Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin. 5. Several people have been injured and displaced while 23 have died as heavy rains pounded south and central Kerala causing flash floods and landslides in many parts of the state. Fourteen deaths were reported in Kottayam’s Koottickal and eight deaths were reported in Idukki. PM Narendra Modi has been speaking with Kerala CM Pinairayi Vijayan, and Home Minister Amit Shah said that the center is continuously monitoring the flood situation in the state. 6. The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Sunday said 'Rail Roko' protests will be held across the country today - on October 18 - to demand the dismissal and arrest Union minister Ajay Mishra in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri incident.   International News: 1. India is likely to host a national security advisor-level meeting on Afghanistan in New Delhi next month, which will be the first-of-its-kind dialogue to be hosted by New Delhi, ANI reported. Pakistan and China are likely to be invited to take part in the meeting, apart from Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. 2. A mass funeral ceremony has been held for the victims killed in Friday’s suicide bomb attack on a Shia mosque in Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar. Government officials say 47 people died in the attack but a community elder Haji Farhad said the death toll is 63 3. The Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia operated at full capacity Sunday, with worshippers praying shoulder-to-shoulder for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began. 4. After one of the world’s most successful responses to the covid-19 pandemic, New Zealand geared up for a “Super Saturday,” a single day vaccination effort to break the country’s record for the maximum doses in 24 hours- previously 93,000. 5. Melbourne, which has spent more time under COVID-19 lockdowns than any other city in the world, is set to lift its lockdown restrictions, officials said on Sunday. By Friday, when some curbs will be lifted, the Australian city of 5 million people will have been under six lockdowns for nearly nine months, since March 2020 6. A Hindu temple has been vandalised in Bangladesh in a fresh case of communal unrest amidst days of violence unleashed by unidentified bigots who attacked the minority community’s places of worship during the Durga Puja celebrations, prompting a minority group to announce a countrywide hunger strike, media reports said on Sunday.   Regional News: 1. Mumbai did not record any Covid deaths in 24 hours on Sunday, for the first time since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic last year. 2.As Delhi's air quality plunged into the ''very poor'' category on Sunday morning, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that increase in pollution was due to stubble burning in neighbouring states 3. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will be the face of the Congress’ election campaign in Uttar Pradesh, party’s newly-appointed campaign committee chief P L Punia said on Sunday 4. Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai on Sunday hinted at reducing cess and sales tax on petrol and diesel in the state to ease the fuel prices, which have touched an all-time high all over the country 5. Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday laid the foundation stone of a 1,430-bed government hospital in Shalimar Bagh, and said the facility will be ready in next six months. 6. A day after visiting the memorial of late party chief J Jayalalithaa, expelled AIADMK leader VK Sasikala  on Sunday visited the MGR Memorial in Chennai, hoisted the party flag and unveiled a plaque identifying herself as the General Secretary of the party.   Business News:  1. Indian taxpayers will no longer have to pay ₹20 crore per day to keep the loss-making Air India flying. As on August 31, Air India had a total debt of ₹61,562 crore. About 75% of this debt will be transferred to...
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  • India News | 17 October 2021

    India News | 17 October 2021
    Oct 17 2021
    Listen to the latest news from India by Aastha in English for local, national, international, business, and entertainment stories that matter. Podcasts are updated once a day. Host: Aastha Lead producer: Vishwapriya Executive Producer: Khushboo Shah Audio Branding: Side B www.sideb.in Produced by: Spooler Studios www.spooler.in Download Alexa Skill: https://amzn.to/3yQWQ6g Social: https://www.instagram.com/spoolerstudios/   Transcript: National News: IMD has predicted and notified for isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall in Kerala and south interior Karnataka, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry. Apart from this. This may go on till October 19. rain in Kerala and 16 other states and UTs including Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Odisha, Chattisgarh, Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh among other regions. A Nihang member Sarvjit Singh killed a daily wager named Lakhbir Singh at Delhi’s Singhu border. The police said they have arrested him after which another member named Narain Singh and 2 others have surrendered themselves for the Singhu border lynching. A total of 4 people have been arrested so far. AIIMS officials said that Former PM Manmohan Singh has been diagnosed with dengue but his health condition is improving. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Kedarnath on November 5 to offer prayers and inaugurate Kedarpuri reconstruction projects worth Rs 250 crore. This will be his second visit to the state within a month. India reported 15,981 fresh COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours 5.7% lower than yesterday. Over 97.23 crore Covid vaccine doses have been administered in the country till now under the nationwide vaccination drive.   International News: An earthquake of magnitude 4.8 struck Indonesia’s Bali island on Saturday morning, killing at least three people, Indonesia’s search and rescue agency said. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the suicide bomber attack at a Shi’ite mosque in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar which left dozens killed and injured. The statement added that two Islamic state fighters broke in and blew themselves up between two groups of worshippers, one of which consisted of around 300 people. Violence erupted at the protests against the Berlin camp eviction. Police say officers were attacked and cars torched as thousands of people gathered in opposition to the clearance of the radical left-wing Köpi-Platz encampment in central Berlin. Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said The Taliban has directed local officials to refrain from carrying out punishments in public unless Afghanistan's "top court" issues the order for public execution. The US Defense Department said Friday that it is committed to offering condolence payments to relatives of the 10 people who were killed in an errant US drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, in August. British lawmaker David Amess was stabbed to death in an Essex church on Friday by an assailant who lunged at him as he met voters, in what police said was a terrorist attack. Amess, 69, from Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party, was knifed repeatedly in the attack at about midday in the Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea Southeast Asian countries will invite a non-political representative from Myanmar to a regional summit this month, delivering a snub to the military leader who led a coup against an elected civilian government in February. Regional News: 10 killed, 18 missing as heavy rain pounds Kerala. A total of 5 districts in Kerala were on red alert, while an orange alert was issued in at least seven other districts as well. Several people lost their lives in Kerala’s Idukki, while many are missing in Kottayam due to landslides. Kerala’s CM Pinarayi Vijayan has sought the Indian Air Force’s help in the rescue operation. Sabarimala Ayyappa temple re- opened yesterday for ‘Thula masam’ poojas. Devotees will be allowed to enter Sabarimala from October 17 to 21 and entry would be permitted only through virtual queue booking. Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai to organise a meeting either today or tomorrow to ease the covid- 19 norms and curbs. He stated that they will discuss various issues like reopening of schools for all the classes, of all commercial establishments and movement of people in the border states. A Vadodara court took Salauddin Sheikh, the managing trustee of AFMI Charitable Trust, and Umar Gautam of the Islamic Da’wah Centre in Delhi into judicial custody on Saturday. Earlier, both were in judicial custody in Lucknow after being arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) in an alleged case of a ‘forced conversion racket’. Keeping up his attack on the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Maharashtra state minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik alleged on Saturday that in three cases, the agency used a panch witness who was known to its officers. Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday administered the oath of office to Justice Prakash Srivastava ...
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