NATIONAL
• The Delhi High Court on Monday directed Delhi University (DU) to conduct examinations for final-year students in the pen and paper mode from September 14 even as the varsity said
• Days after he tested negative for coronavirus, Home Minister Amit Shah has been admitted to AIIMS in Delhi for post COVID-19 care.
• In a video conference with AAP state convenors, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal discussed the need for oxygen testing centres in villages across the country.
• Intermittent rains continue in some districts of Haryana. According to the Meteorological Department, similar weather can remain till August 21. According to the Meteorological Department, there may be rains in Kaithal, Mahendragarh, Rewari, Jhajjar, Gurgaon, Mewat, Palwal, Faridabad, Rohtak, Sonipat, Panipat, Faridabad, Sirsa, Jind, Bhiwani and Charkhi Dadri on Tuesday. There is also a possibility of heavy rains in these districts.
• In Haryana state an angry miscreants came to take revenge after registering a case of loot in Dam village of Panipat district, when the villagers shot and killed two miscreants. About 12 rounds of firing took place from both sides. The bullet went beyond the head of a crook
• Faridabad: Jagdish Bhatia has been elected president for the fifth time in the unanimous election held at the Siddhapeeth Shri Maharani Vaishnav Devi temple. Jagdish Bhatia has thanked all the members and office-bearers of the temple institute.
• Faridabad: Praveen Maheshwari, a Sector-10 resident and chief executive officer of AWC Software Company, loves nature, so don’t spend a penny in spending on plantations. Adopting Praveen’s claim, in two years he has spent Rs 25 lakh only on plantation.
• The total coronavirus cases in India have increased to 27,02,742 after a one-day spike of 55,079. The country has seen a decline in daily cases for the third day in a row.
• As many as 1,043 prisoners and 302 jail staff tested positive for COVID-19 in prisons across Maharashtra so far, according to the State Prison Department.
• The Centre on Monday said it has so far completed 1,858 roads of length 11,517 km and 84 bridges in J&K under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY).
• Lashkar commander piled mastermind of attack on BJP leaders in Bandipora, believed to be Burhan Wani of North Kashmir.
• Terrorist attack on security forces in Baramulla, four soldiers martyred, two terrorists killed.
• 4G Mobile Internet Services Restored In 2 Districts Of J&K As A TrialThe order said that high-speed internet will be provided to post-paid subscribers while pre-paid customers would be able to enjoy the benefit of the services
• A case has been registered against former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat, three Congress legislators and 150 others for allegedly violating coronavirus guidelines and holding a protest in Haridwar district, police said .
• Delhi Assembly’s Peace and Harmony Committee, chaired by AAP MLA Raghav Chadha, will send summons to Facebook officials including its India executive Ankhi Das following complaints that the social media platform was allegedly not acting against hateful content.
• The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) successfully constructed a 180-feet-long bailey bridge in Jauljibi sector of Uttarakhand’s Pithoragarh district in less than three weeks despite frequent landslides and rains.
• The water level of Yamuna rose after the release of 24 thousand cusecs of water in two days from Hathni Kund in Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh. Due to increase in water level, farmers’ crops have suffered in Khadar.
• Biopharmaceutical company Biocon’s 67-year-old Executive Chairperson, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, has tested positive for coronavirus.
• In a tribute to MS Dhoni after his retirement, Infosys Co-Founder Narayana Murthy revealed that the former India captain and Infosys were both born on July 7, 1981.
INTERNATIONAL
• Amid coronavirus crisis, Japan saw gross domestic product (GDP) fall 7.8% in the second quarter (April-June) compared with the previous quarter, or 27.8% on an annualised basis, marking the biggest decline since comparable data became available in 1980.
• Thousands of partygoers packed out a water park over the weekend in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus first emerged late last year, keen to party as the city edges back to normal life.
• The next big battle of billionaires Mukesh Ambani and Jeff Bezos is set to be on the e-pharma front
• The world’s first registered vaccine against the novel coronavirus was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin last week during an online meeting with government officials.
• Elon Musk has become the world’s fourth-richest person after Tesla shares surged 11% on Monday, boosting his net worth by nearly $8 billion to $84.8 billion, as per Bloomberg.
• Global economic growth is expected to see a contraction of over 3% in 2020, Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran said, terming the slump as “worst contraction” since the 1930s.
• The Madras High Court on Tuesday refused to allow the reopening of Vedanta’s Sterlite copper smelting plant in Tamil Nadu’s Tuticorin and dismissed petitions by the company.
• Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has said he would volunteer to be among the first to try the Russian coronavirus vaccine ‘Sputnik V’ if it proved effective. “
• Thousands of people without face masks were seen partying at a water park over the weekend in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus first emerged.
• US President Donald Trump’s aircraft was nearly hit by what appeared to be a small drone as it approached Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, according to several people aboard Air Force One.
• The entire nation of Sri Lanka was left without power on Monday in hours-long outage following a technical failure at a major power station, Power Minister Dullas Alahapperuma said.
• Bahrain authorities have initiated legal action against a 54-year-old woman for breaking several Lord Ganesha idols at a supermarket, saying that “she defamed a sect and its rituals”.
