In focus, 7th Oct 2020, News & Stories from India

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07 Oct 2020

In focus, 07 Oct 2020

Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, left, and his Japanese counterpart Toshimitsu Motegi, right, smile at the start of their luncheon meeting at the Iikura Guest House in Tokyo, Japan. Ap Photo

MEA Jaishankar meets Japanese counterpart, calls for inclusive Indo-Pacific region

The agreement promotes cooperation in capacity building, research and development, security and resilience in the areas

07 Oct 2020 7:01 PM

The viruses Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B had been discovered by the mid-1960s

AA Edit | Towards an HCV-free world

An estimated 71 million people worldwide suffer from chronic HCV infection, requiring liver transplants

07 Oct 2020 6:47 PM

Devastating blast rips through petrol pump in Bhubaneshwar, nine critically injured

People feared buried under the debris at blast site

07 Oct 2020 6:38 PM

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addresses media on the outcomes of the 42nd GST Council meeting, in New Delh. PTI Photo

AA Edit | GST cess: Centre must act quickly, responsibly

The government must act wisely again and offer to meet its legal and moral obligation to the states when the Council meets next

07 Oct 2020 6:22 PM

Students during a protest rally over the death of a 19-year-old Dalit woman who was allegedly gang-raped two weeks ago in Hathras. PTI Photo

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Hathras: Yogi government's offensive misguided

The charges against the protesters include conspiracy, treason and abetting enmity between communities and castes

07 Oct 2020 6:13 PM

Currently, Bandicoot robot is being used in 11 states in India for cleaning sewers

Anand Mahindra invests in Kerala startup making manhole cleaning robots

In addition to Anand Mahindra, the startup has two more investors, Unicorn Ventures which made the initial investment in 2018 and Sea Fund

07 Oct 2020 5:58 PM

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) offering his condolences on October 7, 2020 in Kuwait to the Gulf emirate's Crown Prince, Sheikh Mishaal al-Ahmad al-Jabaer al-Sabah, following the death of the emir of Kuwait last week. (AFP)

Kuwait's emir names security czar Sheikh Meshal as crown prince

The new emir, Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah, assumed power following the death of his brother Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad last week

07 Oct 2020 5:47 PM

Vandita Sahu Bisht and Anjali Sahu established the store and they have now successfully made it a popular name in the market

Sahu Jewellers’ Vandita Sahu Bisht and Anjali Sahu’s to launch The Bride

One of the leading stores, ‘Sahu Jewellers’ is a trustable name which offers gold to its customers

07 Oct 2020 5:28 PM

BE Founders Moyn Islam, Monir Islam and Ehsaan Islam

BE Reviews: Journey from a humble startup to empowering people

BE was launched with a noble vision of freeing people from the clutches of 9-5 jobs

07 Oct 2020 5:20 PM

Sri Lankan health officials take swab samples from employees of the Colombo municipal council to test for COVID-19 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020. Authorities in Sri Lanka on Wednesday widened a curfew and warned of legal action against those evading treatment for COVID-19 after reporting an escalating cluster centered around a garment factory in the capital's suburbs. (AP)

Sri Lanka widens curfew, bans gatherings as virus surges

The Indian Ocean island nation had just reported its first community infection in two months on Sunday

07 Oct 2020 2:54 PM

Boats sit closer to the shore after they were secured by fishermen preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Delta in Puerto Juarez, Cancun, Mexico, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020. Hurricane Delta rapidly intensified into a potentially catastrophic Category 4 hurricane Tuesday on a course to hammer southeastern Mexico and then continue on to the U.S. Gulf coast this week. (AP)

Category 3 Hurricane Delta roars toward Mexico's Cancun

Thousands of Quintana Roo residents and tourists waited for the storm hunkered down in dozens of government shelters

07 Oct 2020 2:06 PM

US President Donald Trump takes off his facemask as he arrives at the White House upon his return from Walter Reed Medical Center. (AFP)

Coronavirus aid hopes evaporate as Trump halts talks with Democrats

Just days earlier, Trump had urged fast action on a fifth major virus aid bill to augment more than $3 trillion approved earlier this year

07 Oct 2020 1:56 PM

The Uddhav Thackeray-led party also said that the Hathras incident has exposed masks of many pretentious people. (PTI)

Yogi government involved in Hathras victim’s midnight cremation: Shiv Sena

The party expressed the fear that the Hathras issue might see the explosion of Dalit community’s anger

07 Oct 2020 1:13 PM

The police also said that many of these accounts have morphed images of the Mumbai police commissioner and the comments and abuses were personal and baseless. (PTI)

Mumbai cyber cell to probe online trolls targeting them over Sushant Singh Rajput case

The police said that fake accounts were being operated on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook where the trolls went on to abuse the city police

07 Oct 2020 12:55 PM

The scientists, who published their findings in peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Marine Science, said areas with more floating rubbish generally had more microplastic fragments on the sea floor. (Representational Image: AFP)

14 million tonnes of microplastics on sea floor: Australian study

The quantity of the tiny pollutants was 25 times greater than previous localised studies had shown

07 Oct 2020 11:38 AM

Fifty-year-old retired Indian Navy officer Jadhav was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of espionage and terrorism in April 2017. (PTI File)

India failed to appoint lawyer to represent Kulbhushan Jadhav: Pak court informed

The Islamabad High Court had last month set a new deadline for India to appoint a legal representative for Jadhav

07 Oct 2020 11:01 AM

According to the Department of Homeland Security, the H-1B programme was intended to allow employers to fill gaps in their workforce and remain competitive in the global economy. (AFP File)

Trump admin imposes new curbs on H-1B visas to protect US workers ahead of presidential election

Already a large number of Indians have lost their jobs and are headed back home during the pandemic that has severely hit the US economy

07 Oct 2020 10:26 AM

A man with a mental health condition shackled in a hut in Majene in West Sulawesi by his family. - While not unique to Indonesia, padlocks, shackles and chains are frequently used to cover for a lack of proper mental health provision in the world's fourth most-populous nation. The COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic has exacerbated the issue, forcing many people who have been freed following a change in attitudes, access to medication and better care back into chains. (AFP)

Locks, chains: Coronavirus puts Indonesia's mentally ill back in shackles

Padlocks, shackles and chains are used to cover for a lack of proper mental health provision in the world's fourth most-populous nation

07 Oct 2020 9:47 AM

Negative views of China rise sharply in advanced democracies: Survey

One of the most important factors with regard to China's reputation abroad has been the coronavirus

07 Oct 2020 9:14 AM

EAM S. Jaishankar with US secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a meeting in Tokyo. — PTI photo

US slams China for Corona, Indo-Pacific tensions at Quad meet

Mike Pompeo and S. Jaishankar discussed bilateral and multilateral cooperation, reaffirmed the strength of the US-India relationship

07 Oct 2020 7:43 AM

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