Monday, 23 December 2024
Monday, 23 December 2024
A meeting of the floor leaders of all political parties has been convened on September 17, a day before the start of a five-day Parliament session. Opposition leaders hit out at the government over the special session of Parliament, saying 'only two people' know about its agenda with only a few days left for its commencement.
Teams from National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune would arrive in Kerala to set up a mobile lab at Kozhikode Medical College to test for Nipah and carry out survey of bats. Responding to a query regarding the Nipah infection in the assembly, State Health Minister Veena George said that the virus strain seen in Kerala was the Bangladesh variant that spreads from human to human and has a high mortality rate, though it is less infectious.
Conflict-torn Manipur witnessed a fresh incident of violence as unidentified gunmen, suspected to be cadres of banned terror groups, attacked people and hurled bombs at a village in Imphal West district, bordering Kangpokpi where three persons were killed a day before. A police sub-inspector on duty at Chingphei bunker No.1 in Manipur’s Churachandpur district was shot dead.
Trinamul Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee appeared before the Enforcement Directorate for questioning in connection with its probe into the alleged school jobs scam in West Bengal. Trinamul Congress lashed out at the BJP for allegedly manipulating central probe agencies to meet its political interests and accused it of suffering from 'Abhishek phobia' in the backdrop of the ED summoning Banerjee.
Rescue teams struggled amid devastation in eastern Libya, retrieving hundreds of bodies from the rubble in a coastal city that has been inundated by devastating floods. Rescuers have found more than 2,000 bodies in the wreckage of Derna where floodwaters broke dams and washed away neighbourhoods.
Twelve people from Gujarat were killed and at least 11 injured when a trailer rammed into their private bus from behind in Rajasthan's Bharatpur district. Expressing grief at the loss of lives and offering condolences to the victims' families, Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh to the next of kin of the dead and Rs 50,000 to the injured.
Apple said its iPhone 12 model was certified by multiple international bodies as compliant with global radiation standards after a French watchdog ordered it to stop selling the handset on the grounds it breaches European exposure limits. The National Frequency Agency, which oversees radio-electric frequencies as well as public exposure electromagnetic radiation, called on Apple in a statement to 'implement all available means to rapidly fix this malfunction.'
Lenders have alleged that Byju's hid USD 533 million in an obscure three-year-old hedge fund to avoid it being seized to make up for a loan default, but the ed-tech titan claimed its agreement with lenders did not explicitly proscribe movement of funds. Byju's had in November 2021 raised USD 1.2 billion term loan from a consortium of US-based creditors. In June this year, it missed a USD 40 million interest payment.
Musician AR Rahman has nothing to do with the 'inconveniences' caused to people during his September 10 concert in Chennai managed by ACTC Events, the event planner said. Rahman's September 10 'Marakkuma Nenjam' (Can the heart forget) had run into a controversy over allegations of mismanagement, resulting in traffic snarls on the busy East Coast Road, ticket-holders being denied entry into the venue and alleged sexual harassment of women among others.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un offered Russian President Vladimir Putin his country's 'full and unconditional support' for Russia's 'sacred fight' to defend its security interests, in an apparent reference to the war in Ukraine and said Pyongyang will always stand with Moscow on the 'anti-imperialist' front. The leaders met at a remote Siberian rocket launch facility for a summit that underscores how their interests are aligning in the face of their countries' separate, intensifying confrontations with the United States.
