Новости за 15.06.2020

After scoring Madrid's third goal in the 37th minute, Marcelo dropped onto his left knee and raised his clinched right fist into the air, apparently in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Madrid won 3-1.

Soon after the Asian Cricket Council meeting last week, when members met via a teleconference but failed to arrive at any conclusion over the immediate future of the tournament, reports of Pakistan Cricket Board agreeing to swap the tournament with Sri Lanka Cricket and the latter "agreeing" to host the same began to emerge.

Has Indore turned a corner in the battle against Covid-19? After two weeks of declining daily counts, it recorded just 6 positive cases out of 1,058 tested on Sunday - a positivity rate of just 0.56%.

The national lockdown delayed the onset of the peak stage of Covid-19 pandemic in India and gave time to prepare the health system with the curve for infections likely to hit its highest point only around mid-November, an open access study funded by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said.

In a bid to urgently address increasing number of Covid-19 cases in the Capital, testing is set to be doubled in the next two days and tripled in six days while 500 railway coaches with 8,000 beds will be made available as care centres and a house-tohouse survey will be conducted in containment zones.

The ongoing investigations in UP’s Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) teachers’ appointment scam has led to the arrest of another woman who had allegedly claimed a consolidated salary of Rs 95,350 using the name of Anamika Shukla. She is the third woman to be arrested, so far, in the scam in which 25 women were appointed as science teachers under the same name.

Ahead of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day on June 15, a survey with focus on the impact of Covid-19 pandemic found 71% elderly respondents are of the opinion that cases of abuse against them increased during the lockdown period and after. A majority 56.1% of the respondents said they were suffering abuse in their families or by society.

India reported more than 12,000 new Covid-19 cases for the second straight day with infections continuing to surge in several states. As many as 324 deaths from the virus were reported on Sunday, taking the total toll past 9,500. Stay with TOI for the latest developments-

The average temperature in India is projected to rise by 4.4ºC, frequency of heat waves to be 3-4 times higher, intensity of tropical cyclones to increase substantially and sea level to rise by 30cm by the end of this century as compared to the recent 2-3 decades, shows the first ever climate change assessment report by government scientific institutions.

The period of ongoing lockdown is certainly quite stressful, depressing for many. Actress Pranitaa Pandit feels that though this lockdown paused our lives, but we should look at the positive side of it as well. She says this is the only way to cope up with stress and depression during this tough time.

Amid the border stand-off with China, defence minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said the government would never compromise on "national pride” and asserted that India was no longer a "weak" country as its security capability had increased manifold.

Even as India wrestles with Chinese intrusions along the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh, foreign minister S Jaishankar is scheduled to meet his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi at a virtual Russia-India-China (RIC) trilateral on June 22. While the military talks are happening on the ground, the diplomatic heavy-lifting is being done in New Delhi and Beijing.