Новости за 29.07.2020

The International Tiger Day is celebrated on July 29 to spread awareness about the need to protect tigers which are an endangered species. Tigers have lost 90% of their natural habitat and their world population is less than 4,000. The day was marked for the first time in 2010 at the 'Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit' in Russia which aimed to double the tiger population by 2022.

Presently India's Air Attache in France, the native of Anantnag in Kashmir has played a key role in ensuring delivery of Rafale jets to the country. Rather, son of a retired DSP, spent all of last year weaponizing the combat aircraft to suit Indian conditions.

Now 103 and retired from active practice, Dr Padmavati was working 12 hours a day, five days a week till late 2015 at the National Heart Institute in Delhi that she founded in 1981. She still comes to the institute once or twice a week to see some of her older patients.

The commissioning of India’s second aircraft carrier has been delayed till September next year because of the Covid-19 pandemic. While reconciling to this setback, the Navy remains all the more keen to push its case for a third aircraft carrier as well as two new fighter squadrons to counter China’s expanding footprint in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR).

Suresh Raina feels that India's limited over vice-captain Rohit Sharma is the "next MS Dhoni" due to his leadership quality & the effect he has on the dressing room. "Around him (Rohit), players enjoy the intensity, they enjoy his aura. I think when you enjoy the aura of a player, you like to be positive and I think that is what he is good at. He is one of the top-most, after Dhoni," Raina said.

The first batch of five Rafale aircraft would be arriving in Ambala today to join the Indian Air Force (IAF) fleet. Stay here for all live updates

A rapid blood test conducted by the BMC on almost 7,000 people in three civic wards in the city found 57% of the people tested in slum pockets had antibodies to Covid-19 as against 16% in non-slum pockets.

In yet another instance of extraordinary kindness at the time of pandemic, a woman in Hanagal town delivered a healthy boy at home after her neighbours came to her rescue in the last minute. A doctor from Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), Hubballi, assisted them through a video call.

Ashok Gehlot government on Tuesday sent yet another proposal — its third since July 23 — to governor Kalraj Mishra, who a day earlier had advised the government to follow three points, including serving a 21-day notice to legislators before calling the session.

BSP's ties with Congress are on a downswing since the 2018 assembly elections in MP and Rajasthan when the grand old party dumped BSP, of late she has almost broken ranks with the opposition to back the BJP-led Central govt on issues like stand-off with China. Mayawati has accused Gehlot govt of stealing her MLAs and has demanded President's rule in Rajasthan.

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A bench of CJI S A Bobde and Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian asked, “How can you not join your place of posting?” His counsel Rajeev Dhavan said Bassi had challenged his “illegal” transfer to Port Blair and the court in January last year had asked him to approach the authorities against the transfer.

Two advocates-cum-PIL petitioners, Ghanshyam Upadhyay and Anoop Prakash Awasthi, read out portions of DGP KL Gupta’s interview to various media organisations purportedly siding with the police action immediately after the July 10 encounter killing of Vikas Dubey. They said the bias emerging from Gupta’s alleged statements, unabashedly justifying the police action, would influence the commission’s work and rob it of public trust.

A couple of days ago, actor Nikkhil Arya was admitted to hospital because of which it was speculated that he had tested positive for coronavirus. However, we have got to know that he underwent an appendicitis surgery on Sunday morning in his hometown, Pune.

Veteran actor Anupam Shyam, 62, who is better known as Thakur Sajjan Singh from Mann Ki Awaaz Pratigya, was admitted to the ICU of a suburban hospital, after he complained of breathlessness.

In an apparent reference to Sachin Pilot’s revolt, calling Congress the “original thief”, she said, “Chori ka saamaan chori hone par shor macha rahe hain (They are screaming after what they stole has been stolen by someone else).” She asked why the Congress high command was quiet about the six BSP MLAs.

A bench of Justices N V Ramana, R S Reddy and B R Gavai posted the matter for further hearing on August 5. The AG and the SG said the date (August 5) had some significance and requested that the hearing be held on some other day. The bench posted the matter for hearing on August 7.

In a shocking turn of events, a staff member from TV show Bhakarwadi, produced by JD Majethia passed away due to coronavirus on July 21. Producer JD Majethia confirmed the news and shared that a few others have also been infected with the virus, but they are in quarantine and under-going treatment.

The Centre said construction of Parliament House was started in 1921 and completed in 1937. It is almost 100 years old. “Over the years, parliamentary activities have increased manifold. Therefore, it... is not able to meet the current requirements in terms of space, amenities and technology,” it said.