Latest News: Import embargo on 101 defence items; 9 killed in fire at Covid facility

Rajnath Singh releases list of 101 Defence items facing import embargo

Union Minister Rajnath Singh anunced that Ministry of Defence has prepared a list of 101 items for which re would be an embargo on import beyond timeline indicated against m. He said that  decision will offer a great opportunity to Indian defence industry to manufacture items in negative list by using ir own design and development capabilities or adopting techlogies designed & developed by DRDO to meet requirements of Armed Forces. In a series of tweets, Defence Minister said that MoD has bifurcated capital procurement budget for 2020-21 between domestic and foreign capital procurement routes and a separate budget head has been created with an outlay of nearly Rs 52,000 crore for domestic capital procurement in current financial year.

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9 killed as fire breaks out at Covid Facility in Vijaywada

A total of nine COVID-19 patients lost ir lives after a massive fire broke in a hotel transformed into coronavirus facility in Vijaywada, Andhra Pradesh. building, previously a hotel called Swarna Palace, was converted into a facility for 50 asymptomatic patients last month. fire was doused with help of four fire tenders and 33 people, including 10 staff members, were rescued from spot. rescued patients have been moved to Metropolitan Hotel COVID-19 Care Centre.

" incident took place around 5 am. Around 22 patients are being treated in hospital. We are evacuating entire building. reason of fire appears to be a short circuit, as per preliminary report, but we will have to ascertain," said Krishna DC Mohammad Imtiaz.

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Rhea's bror Showik leaves ED office after 18-hour marathon interrogation

Enforcement Directorate grilled Rhea Chakraborty's bror for more than 18 hours while looking into financial angle of Sushant Singh Rajput's death case. Rhea's bror Showik Chakraborty went to ED office at 12.30pm on August 8 left Mumbai's Ballard Pier office of central ncy at 6.40am on August 9. ED had already interrogated Rhea and her former business manr Shruti Modi, her CA Ritesh Shah for over nine hours. According to sources, both Rhea and Showik were asked to provide information on ir bank accounts and details of companies that were allegedly formed using Sushant Singh Rajput's money. 

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PM Modi to inaugurate Chennai-Port Blair submarine cable

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to inaugurate submarine Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) connecting Chennai and Port Blair via video conference on August 10. submarine cable will also connect Port Blair to Swaraj Dweep (Havelock) island, Little Andaman, Car Nicobar, Great Nicobar, Kamorta, Long Island, and Rangat. It will enable delivery of faster and more reliable mobile and landline telecom services to Andaman and Nicobar Islands, on par with or parts of India. submarine OFC link will deliver bandwidth of 2 x 200 Gigabits per second (Gbps) between Chennai and Port Blair, and 2 x 100 Gbps between Port Blair and or islands.

" provision of reliable, robust, and high-speed telecom and Broadband facilities in se Islands will be a landmark achievement from viewpoint of consumers, as well as for strategic and governance reasons. 4G mobile services, which were constrained due to limited backhaul bandwidth provided via satellite will also see a major improvement" release said.

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India records 64,399 new cases in 24 Hrs, tally reaches 21.53 Lakh

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare anunced that India witnessed a record single-day spike of 64,399 new coronavirus cases on August 8, taking total case tally past 21 lakh-mark. country recorded over 60,000 new COVID-19 cases for third consecutive day. As many as 861 people lost ir lives to contagious disease, taking total coronavirus-related death toll to 43,379. India has w over 628,000 active coronavirus cases and total number of recovered patients is approaching 15 lakh mark.

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