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TV ACTOR PEARL PURI ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY RAPING MINOR The 31-year-old actor was arrested for allegedly raping a minor girl. He has been remanded to police custody and booked for rape and under section of The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the Times of India stated in a report. Five others have also been arrested. Pearl is known for starring on popular show Naagin 3. WHY 'GAIN OF FUNCTION' RESEARCH MUST BE STOPPED: MONALI Why 'gain of function' research must be stopped: Monali Rahulkar. Q/ Was it a lab-made-and-leaked virus? A/ As of now we do not know for sure if they have used RaTG13 sequence as the backbone for genetic engineering to convert it into a Sars-CoV-2-like virus for their experiments. What we know for sure is that the Wuhan Institute of

Virology

'TAMIL NADU FACES KASHMIR-TYPE UPRISING': SWAMY WANTS Swamy tweeted, "Tamil Nadu is today under threat of a pre-2019 Kashmir type anti national uprising. TN CM must be given a RAW/IB Dossier on it. Rather than President's Rule in the State, the Centre should post Central forces of CRPF and BSF in three adjacent districts of Madurai." Swamy had previously warned of 'anti-national' activity in

Tamil

INFERNO ABOARD CONTAINER VESSEL OFF COLOMBO ‘LARGELY By Pradip R Sagar May 28, 2021 18:58 IST. (File) Smoke rises from the container vessel MV X-Press Pearl engulfed in flames off Colombo port, in Sri Lanka | PTI. International firefighting efforts to put out a huge blaze on a container ship off Sri Lanka's coast seems to be finally bearing fruit, with the fire 'largely' contained after four

days.

REMEMBERING THE PAKISTANI DICTATOR ACCUSED OF One of the experts dispatched by Pakistan was a brigadier named Mohammed Zia-u-Haq. Zia-ul-Haq would rise to become a general and overthrow civilian rule in Pakistan and rule the country from 1978 to 1988. On September 17, 1970, King Hussein ordered the Jordanian Army to target militants operating from the refugee camps around Amman. COVID-19 SECOND WAVE DRIVES INDIAN PHARMA MARKET GROWTH IN The pharma market in India has grown a robust 51.5 per cent in April 2021 driven by a rebound in volume growth and renewed demand for Covid-19 drugs amid the second wave of the pandemic. The second wave of the Covid-19 outbreak in April had a significant effect on industry volumes. Acute therapy NETANYAHU THANKED 25 NATIONS FOR SUPPORTING ISRAEL AGAINST Netanyahu thanked 25 nations for supporting Israel against Palestine but India wasn’t one. India has opposed Israeli settlements in Palestine, supports maintaining status quo. Following renewed hostilities between Israel and Palestine and some of the deadliest air strikes on the Gaza Strip since the 2014 war, Israeli Prime Minister

Benjamin

FIVE YEARS BEFORE PANDEMIC, CHINESE SCIENTISTS DISCUSSED A paper, purportedly written by People’s Liberation Army scientists and quoted in an upcoming book, suggests Chinese military scientists were discusisng ways of weaponising coronaviruses five years before the COVID-19 pandemic struck the world. A report in the Australian cites the paper, titled KUMBH MELA WAS SUPER-SPREADER EVENT IN INDIA: REPORT In the weeks after the Kumbh Mela took place in Haridwar, Uttarakhand, between March 31 and April 24, reports are growing that the event, which saw roughly 3.5 million devotees congregate in the small riverside town, has become the latest “super-spreader” event of the COVID-19 pandemic. A BBC

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India reports 86,498 new COVID-19 cases, and 2,123 deaths in the last

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TV ACTOR PEARL PURI ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY RAPING MINOR The 31-year-old actor was arrested for allegedly raping a minor girl. He has been remanded to police custody and booked for rape and under section of The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the Times of India stated in a report. Five others have also been arrested. Pearl is known for starring on popular show Naagin 3. WHY 'GAIN OF FUNCTION' RESEARCH MUST BE STOPPED: MONALI Why 'gain of function' research must be stopped: Monali Rahulkar. Q/ Was it a lab-made-and-leaked virus? A/ As of now we do not know for sure if they have used RaTG13 sequence as the backbone for genetic engineering to convert it into a Sars-CoV-2-like virus for their experiments. What we know for sure is that the Wuhan Institute of

Virology

'TAMIL NADU FACES KASHMIR-TYPE UPRISING': SWAMY WANTS Swamy tweeted, "Tamil Nadu is today under threat of a pre-2019 Kashmir type anti national uprising. TN CM must be given a RAW/IB Dossier on it. Rather than President's Rule in the State, the Centre should post Central forces of CRPF and BSF in three adjacent districts of Madurai." Swamy had previously warned of 'anti-national' activity in

Tamil

INFERNO ABOARD CONTAINER VESSEL OFF COLOMBO ‘LARGELY By Pradip R Sagar May 28, 2021 18:58 IST. (File) Smoke rises from the container vessel MV X-Press Pearl engulfed in flames off Colombo port, in Sri Lanka | PTI. International firefighting efforts to put out a huge blaze on a container ship off Sri Lanka's coast seems to be finally bearing fruit, with the fire 'largely' contained after four

days.

REMEMBERING THE PAKISTANI DICTATOR ACCUSED OF One of the experts dispatched by Pakistan was a brigadier named Mohammed Zia-u-Haq. Zia-ul-Haq would rise to become a general and overthrow civilian rule in Pakistan and rule the country from 1978 to 1988. On September 17, 1970, King Hussein ordered the Jordanian Army to target militants operating from the refugee camps around Amman. COVID-19 SECOND WAVE DRIVES INDIAN PHARMA MARKET GROWTH IN The pharma market in India has grown a robust 51.5 per cent in April 2021 driven by a rebound in volume growth and renewed demand for Covid-19 drugs amid the second wave of the pandemic. The second wave of the Covid-19 outbreak in April had a significant effect on industry volumes. Acute therapy NETANYAHU THANKED 25 NATIONS FOR SUPPORTING ISRAEL AGAINST Netanyahu thanked 25 nations for supporting Israel against Palestine but India wasn’t one. India has opposed Israeli settlements in Palestine, supports maintaining status quo. Following renewed hostilities between Israel and Palestine and some of the deadliest air strikes on the Gaza Strip since the 2014 war, Israeli Prime Minister

Benjamin

FIVE YEARS BEFORE PANDEMIC, CHINESE SCIENTISTS DISCUSSED A paper, purportedly written by People’s Liberation Army scientists and quoted in an upcoming book, suggests Chinese military scientists were discusisng ways of weaponising coronaviruses five years before the COVID-19 pandemic struck the world. A report in the Australian cites the paper, titled KUMBH MELA WAS SUPER-SPREADER EVENT IN INDIA: REPORT In the weeks after the Kumbh Mela took place in Haridwar, Uttarakhand, between March 31 and April 24, reports are growing that the event, which saw roughly 3.5 million devotees congregate in the small riverside town, has become the latest “super-spreader” event of the COVID-19 pandemic. A BBC COVID THREATENS INDIA'S REGIONAL, GLOBAL AMBITIONS: US 8 hours ago · India's domestic challenges due to COVID-19 crisis have become a threat to its regional and global ambitions, a US think-tank has observed and warned that unless it recovers with the help of allies like the United States, the pandemic could impact the geopolitical balance in the Indo-Pacific. DONKEYS IN JORDAN FACE ‘UNEMPLOYMENT’ AS COVID-19 AFFECTS 1 day ago · Donkeys in Petra, Jordan were a means of livelihood for several people. Hordes of the hardworking beasts would carry tourists on the rocky paths. But, numbers have dropped considerably due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the animals are left without KARNATAKA INDUSTRIES DEMAND A ROLLBACK ON POWER TARIFF 10 hours ago · A hike in power tariff announced by the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) in the middle of a pandemic has alarmed the industries. The Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FKCCI), Bengaluru, has strongly objected to

KERC announcing a

GOVT OF INDIA BEHAVING LIKE PETTY CRIMINALS, SAYS AAP MLA 2 hours ago · Hitting out at the BJP for targetting the AAP-led government in Delhi and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for not implementing the 'One nation one ration card' scheme and not connecting its ration shops with electronic point of sale (EPOS) machine to "evade" accountability, AAP MLA Atishi said the Centre is not able to vaccinate people or run a PDS system. MUKUL ROY, SON SUBHRANSHU RETURN TO TMC 3 hours ago · West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mukul Roy on Friday announced he was returning to the Trinamool Congress. Roy met with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the party office in Kolkata. His son Subhranshu Roy also returned to the TMC. "I UNPLANNED VACCINATION CAN PROMOTE MUTANT STRAINS: HEALTH 6 hours ago · A group of public health experts, including doctors from AIIMS and members from the national taskforce on COVID-19, have said that mass, indiscriminate and incomplete vaccination can trigger emergence of mutant strains and recommended that there is no need to inoculate those who had documented coronavirus infection. HARYANA TO LAUNCH THIRD ROUND OF SERO SURVEY ON JUNE 15 5 hours ago · Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij will launch the third round of the sero survey in the state on June 15 to determine the prevalence of coronavirus antibodies in the community, especially in children aged 6-17. Additional Chief Secretary (Health), Rajeev Arora said all the necessary preparations INFERNO ABOARD CONTAINER VESSEL OFF COLOMBO ‘LARGELY By Pradip R Sagar May 28, 2021 18:58 IST. (File) Smoke rises from the container vessel MV X-Press Pearl engulfed in flames off Colombo port, in Sri Lanka | PTI. International firefighting efforts to put out a huge blaze on a container ship off Sri Lanka's coast seems to be finally bearing fruit, with the fire 'largely' contained after four

days.

ED ISSUES FEMA NOTICE TO INDIA'S LARGEST CRYPTOCURRENCY 4 hours ago · The Enforcement Directorate on Friday said it has issued a show cause notice to the country's largest cryptocurrency exchange for undertaking transactions worth over Rs 2,790 crore in alleged violation of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA). WazirX, registered under the company named Zanmai DELHI GOVT UNDER CONTROL OF 'RATION MAFIA', SAYS RAVI 3 hours ago · The BJP, on Friday, alleged that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government is under the control of "ration mafia" and claimed that its proposal of home delivery of subsidised grains is merely a show to promote a "scam". Addressing a press

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UN-LED KEY COMMITTEE SAYS 350,000 IN FAMINE IN TIGRAY 18 hours ago · A high-level UN-led committee that focuses on rapid responses to humanitarian crises estimates that some 350,000 people in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region are facing famine conditions, a UN official said late Wednesday. A note from the meeting said TV ACTOR PEARL PURI ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY RAPING MINOR The 31-year-old actor was arrested for allegedly raping a minor girl. He has been remanded to police custody and booked for rape and under section of The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the Times of India stated in a report. Five others have also been arrested. Pearl is known for starring on popular show Naagin 3. WHY 'GAIN OF FUNCTION' RESEARCH MUST BE STOPPED: MONALI Why 'gain of function' research must be stopped: Monali Rahulkar. Q/ Was it a lab-made-and-leaked virus? A/ As of now we do not know for sure if they have used RaTG13 sequence as the backbone for genetic engineering to convert it into a Sars-CoV-2-like virus for their experiments. What we know for sure is that the Wuhan Institute of

Virology

'TAMIL NADU FACES KASHMIR-TYPE UPRISING': SWAMY WANTS Swamy tweeted, "Tamil Nadu is today under threat of a pre-2019 Kashmir type anti national uprising. TN CM must be given a RAW/IB Dossier on it. Rather than President's Rule in the State, the Centre should post Central forces of CRPF and BSF in three adjacent districts of Madurai." Swamy had previously warned of 'anti-national' activity in

Tamil

INFERNO ABOARD CONTAINER VESSEL OFF COLOMBO ‘LARGELY By Pradip R Sagar May 28, 2021 18:58 IST. (File) Smoke rises from the container vessel MV X-Press Pearl engulfed in flames off Colombo port, in Sri Lanka | PTI. International firefighting efforts to put out a huge blaze on a container ship off Sri Lanka's coast seems to be finally bearing fruit, with the fire 'largely' contained after four

days.

COVID-19 SECOND WAVE DRIVES INDIAN PHARMA MARKET GROWTH IN The pharma market in India has grown a robust 51.5 per cent in April 2021 driven by a rebound in volume growth and renewed demand for Covid-19 drugs amid the second wave of the pandemic. The second wave of the Covid-19 outbreak in April had a significant effect on industry volumes. Acute therapy REMEMBERING THE PAKISTANI DICTATOR ACCUSED OF One of the experts dispatched by Pakistan was a brigadier named Mohammed Zia-u-Haq. Zia-ul-Haq would rise to become a general and overthrow civilian rule in Pakistan and rule the country from 1978 to 1988. On September 17, 1970, King Hussein ordered the Jordanian Army to target militants operating from the refugee camps around Amman. NETANYAHU THANKED 25 NATIONS FOR SUPPORTING ISRAEL AGAINST Netanyahu thanked 25 nations for supporting Israel against Palestine but India wasn’t one. India has opposed Israeli settlements in Palestine, supports maintaining status quo. Following renewed hostilities between Israel and Palestine and some of the deadliest air strikes on the Gaza Strip since the 2014 war, Israeli Prime Minister

Benjamin

FIVE YEARS BEFORE PANDEMIC, CHINESE SCIENTISTS DISCUSSED A paper, purportedly written by People’s Liberation Army scientists and quoted in an upcoming book, suggests Chinese military scientists were discusisng ways of weaponising coronaviruses five years before the COVID-19 pandemic struck the world. A report in the Australian cites the paper, titled

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India reports 86,498 new COVID-19 cases, and 2,123 deaths in the last

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UN-LED KEY COMMITTEE SAYS 350,000 IN FAMINE IN TIGRAY 18 hours ago · A high-level UN-led committee that focuses on rapid responses to humanitarian crises estimates that some 350,000 people in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region are facing famine conditions, a UN official said late Wednesday. A note from the meeting said TV ACTOR PEARL PURI ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY RAPING MINOR The 31-year-old actor was arrested for allegedly raping a minor girl. He has been remanded to police custody and booked for rape and under section of The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the Times of India stated in a report. Five others have also been arrested. Pearl is known for starring on popular show Naagin 3. WHY 'GAIN OF FUNCTION' RESEARCH MUST BE STOPPED: MONALI Why 'gain of function' research must be stopped: Monali Rahulkar. Q/ Was it a lab-made-and-leaked virus? A/ As of now we do not know for sure if they have used RaTG13 sequence as the backbone for genetic engineering to convert it into a Sars-CoV-2-like virus for their experiments. What we know for sure is that the Wuhan Institute of

Virology

'TAMIL NADU FACES KASHMIR-TYPE UPRISING': SWAMY WANTS Swamy tweeted, "Tamil Nadu is today under threat of a pre-2019 Kashmir type anti national uprising. TN CM must be given a RAW/IB Dossier on it. Rather than President's Rule in the State, the Centre should post Central forces of CRPF and BSF in three adjacent districts of Madurai." Swamy had previously warned of 'anti-national' activity in

Tamil

INFERNO ABOARD CONTAINER VESSEL OFF COLOMBO ‘LARGELY By Pradip R Sagar May 28, 2021 18:58 IST. (File) Smoke rises from the container vessel MV X-Press Pearl engulfed in flames off Colombo port, in Sri Lanka | PTI. International firefighting efforts to put out a huge blaze on a container ship off Sri Lanka's coast seems to be finally bearing fruit, with the fire 'largely' contained after four

days.

COVID-19 SECOND WAVE DRIVES INDIAN PHARMA MARKET GROWTH IN The pharma market in India has grown a robust 51.5 per cent in April 2021 driven by a rebound in volume growth and renewed demand for Covid-19 drugs amid the second wave of the pandemic. The second wave of the Covid-19 outbreak in April had a significant effect on industry volumes. Acute therapy REMEMBERING THE PAKISTANI DICTATOR ACCUSED OF One of the experts dispatched by Pakistan was a brigadier named Mohammed Zia-u-Haq. Zia-ul-Haq would rise to become a general and overthrow civilian rule in Pakistan and rule the country from 1978 to 1988. On September 17, 1970, King Hussein ordered the Jordanian Army to target militants operating from the refugee camps around Amman. NETANYAHU THANKED 25 NATIONS FOR SUPPORTING ISRAEL AGAINST Netanyahu thanked 25 nations for supporting Israel against Palestine but India wasn’t one. India has opposed Israeli settlements in Palestine, supports maintaining status quo. Following renewed hostilities between Israel and Palestine and some of the deadliest air strikes on the Gaza Strip since the 2014 war, Israeli Prime Minister

Benjamin

FIVE YEARS BEFORE PANDEMIC, CHINESE SCIENTISTS DISCUSSED A paper, purportedly written by People’s Liberation Army scientists and quoted in an upcoming book, suggests Chinese military scientists were discusisng ways of weaponising coronaviruses five years before the COVID-19 pandemic struck the world. A report in the Australian cites the paper, titled COVID-19: CHINA SUSPENDS IMPORT OF FROZEN SEAFOOD FROM 6 11 hours ago · China on Thursday suspended the import of frozen seafood products from six Indian marine export companies for a week after Chinese customs claimed they found traces of coronavirus were detected on the packaging. Since early last year, China has been testing imported frozen food products from all FINANCE MINISTRY PROPOSES 24X7 VACCINATION DRIVE TO REVIVE 21 hours ago · In order to revive growth and tide over the current economic woes, the finance ministry has proposed for holding 24x7 vaccination against Covid in the country for the next couple of months in order to quicken the vaccination coverage. The ministry UNPLANNED VACCINATION CAN PROMOTE MUTANT STRAINS: HEALTH 12 hours ago · A group of public health experts, including doctors from AIIMS and members from the national taskforce on COVID-19, have said that mass, indiscriminate and incomplete vaccination can trigger emergence of mutant strains and recommended that there is no need to inoculate those who had documented coronavirus infection. UN-LED KEY COMMITTEE SAYS 350,000 IN FAMINE IN TIGRAY 18 hours ago · A high-level UN-led committee that focuses on rapid responses to humanitarian crises estimates that some 350,000 people in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region are facing famine conditions, a UN official said late Wednesday. A note from the meeting said LAKSHADWEEP WITHDRAWS ORDER TO DEPLOY GOVT OFFICIALS ON 21 hours ago · The Lakshadweep administration has withdrawn a controversial order mandating that government personnel be stationed on board fishing vessels in the islands, media reports said on Thursday.. It was on May 28 that a meeting chaired by the principal secretary-cum-adviser to the administrator decided to depute responsible government servants onboard local fishing boats for EURO 2020: FANS ARE ALLOWED, EVEN IF STADIUMS AREN'T FULL 10 hours ago · A full house doesn't mean a full stadium for this year's coronavirus-impacted European Championship. All 11 host cities, from Glasgow to St. Petersburg, and Sevilla to Bucharest, have agreed to allow at least some fans into their stadiums for Euro CENTRE SAYS READY FOR TALKS; FARMER UNIONS UNMOVED 1 day ago · With the talks between the Centre and the agitating farmer unions stalled since January, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Wednesday expressed readiness to resume the dialogue to resolve their objections to the three new agri laws, but the unions remained adamant on their demands for a repeal of the legislations and a legal guarantee on the MSP. EXPLOSION FORCED INDIAN NAVY TO RETURN NUCLEAR SUBMARINE On June 4, Twitter was abuzz after photographs from Singapore showed the Indian Navy's nuclear-powered submarine INS Chakra transiting through the Malacca Straits. Later in the day, reports emerged that the warship was on its way back to Russia. India agreed to TATA DIGITAL TO ACQUIRE MAJORITY STAKE IN 1MG 20 hours ago · Tata Digital Ltd, a wholly-owned arm of Tata Sons, on Thursday said it will acquire a majority stake in 1MG Technologies Ltd, an online healthcare marketplace. The company, however, did not disclose the financial details of the transaction. Just days after the

company said it

ASTEROID AS BIG AS THE EIFFEL TOWER TO PASS NEAR THE EARTH NASA has warned that the earth will have relatively close encounters with asteroids in the coming days. The first of these rogue rocks will zip past the earth on June 1. The ‘potentially hazardous asteroid could be as big as Eiffel Tower, says NASA. The asteroid zipping around the earth on June

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WORLD NEWS | THE WEEK Three people got out of an SUV and opened fire at a crowd at a banquet hall. By PTI May 30, 2021. End of the road for Netanyahu? Naftali Bennett announces possible coalition with Lapid. A coalition of anti-Netanyahu parties could scrape together a 61-member majority. By Web Desk May 30, 2021.

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To define the government’s behaviour as arrogant and narcissistic is too simplistic an argument. To err is human. But, in crisis after crisis, to portray oneself as not having made a single misstep, suggesting invincibility and perfect judgement, requires deeper psychoanalysis. 'KSRTC' BELONGS TO KERALA; KARNATAKA CAN NO LONGER USE IT A legal war began in 1994 when Karnataka issued a notice to Kerala against the use of 'KSRTC' on its passenger buses, claiming that it had secured the trademark. However, Kerala approached the Trademarks Registry saying they were the first to use the brand 'KSRTC' on their buses. After 27 years of legal battle, the Trademarks Registry ruled

in

'TAMIL NADU FACES KASHMIR-TYPE UPRISING': SWAMY WANTS Swamy tweeted, "Tamil Nadu is today under threat of a pre-2019 Kashmir type anti national uprising. TN CM must be given a RAW/IB Dossier on it. Rather than President's Rule in the State, the Centre should post Central forces of CRPF and BSF in three adjacent districts of Madurai." Swamy had previously warned of 'anti-national' activity in

Tamil

KERALA EXTENDS LOCKDOWN TILL JUNE 9 The Kerala government on Saturday extended the state-wide lockdown for 10 more days till June 9 in view of the COVID pandemic. The current lockdown was to end on Monday. However, it is expected that the government will allow partial easing of restrictions as ASTEROID AS BIG AS THE EIFFEL TOWER TO PASS NEAR THE EARTH NASA has warned that the earth will have relatively close encounters with asteroids in the coming days. The first of these rogue rocks will zip past the earth on June 1. The ‘potentially hazardous asteroid could be as big as Eiffel Tower, says NASA. The asteroid zipping around the earth on June NETANYAHU THANKED 25 NATIONS FOR SUPPORTING ISRAEL AGAINST Netanyahu thanked 25 nations for supporting Israel against Palestine but India wasn’t one. India has opposed Israeli settlements in Palestine, supports maintaining status quo. Following renewed hostilities between Israel and Palestine and some of the deadliest air strikes on the Gaza Strip since the 2014 war, Israeli Prime Minister

Benjamin

COVID-19 SECOND WAVE DRIVES INDIAN PHARMA MARKET GROWTH IN The pharma market in India has grown a robust 51.5 per cent in April 2021 driven by a rebound in volume growth and renewed demand for Covid-19 drugs amid the second wave of the pandemic. The second wave of the Covid-19 outbreak in April had a significant effect on industry volumes. Acute therapy 'INDIAN STRAIN' OF COVID-19 DISCOVERED IN OVER 44 The Indian variant, or the B.1.617 strain, of the coronavirus has been discovered in over 44 countries now, the WHO stated in its weekly epidemiological report released on May 11.. Though there is no concrete evidence yet, the 'double mutant' strain is feared to

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WORLD NEWS | THE WEEK Three people got out of an SUV and opened fire at a crowd at a banquet hall. By PTI May 30, 2021. End of the road for Netanyahu? Naftali Bennett announces possible coalition with Lapid. A coalition of anti-Netanyahu parties could scrape together a 61-member majority. By Web Desk May 30, 2021.

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To define the government’s behaviour as arrogant and narcissistic is too simplistic an argument. To err is human. But, in crisis after crisis, to portray oneself as not having made a single misstep, suggesting invincibility and perfect judgement, requires deeper psychoanalysis. 'KSRTC' BELONGS TO KERALA; KARNATAKA CAN NO LONGER USE IT A legal war began in 1994 when Karnataka issued a notice to Kerala against the use of 'KSRTC' on its passenger buses, claiming that it had secured the trademark. However, Kerala approached the Trademarks Registry saying they were the first to use the brand 'KSRTC' on their buses. After 27 years of legal battle, the Trademarks Registry ruled

in

'TAMIL NADU FACES KASHMIR-TYPE UPRISING': SWAMY WANTS Swamy tweeted, "Tamil Nadu is today under threat of a pre-2019 Kashmir type anti national uprising. TN CM must be given a RAW/IB Dossier on it. Rather than President's Rule in the State, the Centre should post Central forces of CRPF and BSF in three adjacent districts of Madurai." Swamy had previously warned of 'anti-national' activity in

Tamil

KERALA EXTENDS LOCKDOWN TILL JUNE 9 The Kerala government on Saturday extended the state-wide lockdown for 10 more days till June 9 in view of the COVID pandemic. The current lockdown was to end on Monday. However, it is expected that the government will allow partial easing of restrictions as ASTEROID AS BIG AS THE EIFFEL TOWER TO PASS NEAR THE EARTH NASA has warned that the earth will have relatively close encounters with asteroids in the coming days. The first of these rogue rocks will zip past the earth on June 1. The ‘potentially hazardous asteroid could be as big as Eiffel Tower, says NASA. The asteroid zipping around the earth on June NETANYAHU THANKED 25 NATIONS FOR SUPPORTING ISRAEL AGAINST Netanyahu thanked 25 nations for supporting Israel against Palestine but India wasn’t one. India has opposed Israeli settlements in Palestine, supports maintaining status quo. Following renewed hostilities between Israel and Palestine and some of the deadliest air strikes on the Gaza Strip since the 2014 war, Israeli Prime Minister

Benjamin

COVID-19 SECOND WAVE DRIVES INDIAN PHARMA MARKET GROWTH IN The pharma market in India has grown a robust 51.5 per cent in April 2021 driven by a rebound in volume growth and renewed demand for Covid-19 drugs amid the second wave of the pandemic. The second wave of the Covid-19 outbreak in April had a significant effect on industry volumes. Acute therapy 'INDIAN STRAIN' OF COVID-19 DISCOVERED IN OVER 44 The Indian variant, or the B.1.617 strain, of the coronavirus has been discovered in over 44 countries now, the WHO stated in its weekly epidemiological report released on May 11.. Though there is no concrete evidence yet, the 'double mutant' strain is feared to WORLD NEWS | THE WEEK Three people got out of an SUV and opened fire at a crowd at a banquet hall. By PTI May 30, 2021. End of the road for Netanyahu? Naftali Bennett announces possible coalition with Lapid. A coalition of anti-Netanyahu parties could scrape together a 61-member majority. By Web Desk May 30, 2021. INDIA NEWS | THE WEEK Delhi reports 946 fresh COVID-19 cases, 78 deaths. The case positivity rate in the national capital is 1.25 per cent. By PTI May 30, 2021.

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To define the government’s behaviour as arrogant and narcissistic is too simplistic an argument. To err is human. But, in crisis after crisis, to portray oneself as not having made a single misstep, suggesting invincibility and perfect judgement, requires deeper psychoanalysis. SUVENDU ADHIKARI MEETS HM AMIT SHAH 28 minutes ago · BJP MLA and Leader of opposition in West Bengal assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday met Union Home Minister Amit Shah. In his first meeting after becoming the leader of opposition in the state assembly, Adhikari also met Union minister Mansukh Mandviya.

He is

K. SUDHAKARAN ELECTED KERALA PCC PRESIDENT 44 minutes ago · Firebrand Congress leader K. Sudhakaran has been elected as the president of Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) on Tuesday. An official announcement is being awaited. According to media reports, the decision has been taken after AICC UNPRECEDENTED HUNGER STRIKE IN LAKSHADWEEP TODAY AGAINST 1 day ago · The people living on Lakshadweep, cutting across party lines, are observing a 12-hour hunger strike on Monday in protest against the various actions of the administration. This is the first mass agitation on the islands since the formation of the Save Lakshadweep Forum. Lakshadweep has been ISRAEL: PM NETANYAHU CALLS COALITION GOVERNMENT ‘GREATEST 19 hours ago · Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the eight-party coalition government formed is the result of “the greatest election fraud” in the history of democracy. PM Netanyahu, who is caught up in a court battle over charges of corruption was

addressing the

SEOUL COURT REJECTS SLAVE LABOUR CLAIM AGAINST JAPANESE 21 hours ago · A South Korean court on Monday rejected a claim by dozens of wartime Korean factory workers and their relatives who sought compensation from 16 Japanese companies for their slave labour during Japan's colonial occupation of Korea. The decision by KARNATAKA: IS THERE A HIDDEN MESSAGE IN YEDIYURAPPA'S TAKE 1 day ago · Amid clamour for leadership change, Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa on Sunday stated that he would resign from the post if the BJP high command wanted him to. "As long as the party high command in Delhi has faith in my leadership, I will continue as MADHYA PRADESH BJP LEADERS DISMISS SPECULATIONS OF CHANGE 17 hours ago · A day after speculations on cabinet reshuffle and change of guard in Uttar Pradesh were refuted by the BJP state in-charge Radha Mohan Singh, senior leaders in Madhya Pradesh made statements dismissing similar speculations in the central Indian

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SHILPA SHETTY, HUSBAND WELCOME BABY GIRL BORN THROUGH SURROGACY The couple has a seven-year-old son Viaan

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February 21, 2020 12:10 IST Samisha Shetty Kundra was born on February 15, posted Shilpa Shetty on social media Actor Shilpa Shetty Kundra and her husband Raj Kundra on Friday announced that they have become parents to a baby girl, born through surrogacy. The couple welcomed their second child on February 15. "Our prayers have been answered with a miracle. With gratitude in our hearts we are thrilled to announce the arrival of our little Angel. Samisha Shetty Kundra. Born on 15th February 2020 Junior SSK in the house," Shilpa said. Shilpa and Raj got married in November 2009 and welcomed their first child—son Viaan—in May 2012.

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