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Singapore minister warns of more COVID-19 cases as economy opens up

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Singapore’s Health Minister Ong Ye Kung has warned that more people will come down with COVID-19 as the trade and financial hub opens up its economy and moves towards treating the virus as an endemic. “Our companies cannot grow if businessmen and managers cannot travel overseas to meet clients and partners. MNCs (multinational corporations) will find it hard to invest here if their people are not able to travel in and out of Singapore,” the minister stressed. “And if this continues, our ability to create jobs, earn a living will…

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Shooting for Doctor G!’ in Prayagraj will bring back deluge of emotions: Ayushmann Khurrana

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Actor Ayushmann Khurrana says filming the next schedule of his upcoming movie “Doctor G!” in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj will take him on the trip down memory lane. The campus comedy-drama, directed by Anubhuti Kashyap, will see the 36-year-old Chandigarh-born actor play Dr Uday Gupta. Khurrana, who earlier visited Prayagraj during his time on reality show “Roadies”, said he was amazed by the “history, heritiage and architecture”of the city. I still remember getting mesmerised by its history, heritage and architecture. Prayagraj sees the confluence of three rivers – Ganga, Yamuna and…

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Sensex, Nifty open marginally higher ahead of RBI’s Monetary Policy

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Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty opened marginally higher on Friday ahead of the Reserve Bank of India’s monetary policy decision. The 30-share index was trading 54.98 points or 0.10 per cent higher at 54,547.82, while the broader NSE Nifty inched 17.50 points or 0.11 per cent higher to 16,312.10. The RBI will announce its bi-monthly monetary policy amid expectations that it may opt for status quo on interest rates on account of inflationary concerns. IndusInd Bank was the top gainer in the Sensex pack, rising around 3 per cent,…

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Mizoram stares at fuel shortage amid border row, orders rationing

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The Mizoram government ordered rationing the purchase of diesel and petrol as the movement of vehicles, including the tankers carrying fuel, continued to remain shut on National Highway-306. The order issued by the Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department on Friday said that the state could face a huge crisis of fuel, which comes via neighbouring Assam, due to the inter-state border dispute. “All filling stations are instructed not to issue petrol and diesel beyond the permitted quantities. Only those vehicles that go to filling stations will be issued…

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Bronze lost but hearts won: Indian women’s hockey team signs off 4th at Olympics after narrow loss

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The history-making Indian women’s hockey team’s dream of securing its maiden Olympic medal remained unfulfilled as it lost 3-4 to Great Britain in a hard-fought bronze play-off but the stout-hearted side managed to record its best ever finish at the Games here on Friday. The team had already created history and surpassed all expectations by entering the semifinals of the Games for the first time. But the maiden Olympic medal remained out of bounds as world no.4 Great Britain, who were gold-winners in the 2016 Rio Games, came out on…

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Apple to scan US iPhones for images of child abuse

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Apple unveiled plans to scan US iPhones for images of child abuse, drawing applause from child protection groups but raising concern among some security researchers that the system could be misused by governments looking to surveil their citizens. Apple said its messaging app will use on-device machine learning to warn about sensitive content without making private communications readable by the company. The tool Apple calls neuralMatch will detect known images of child sexual abuse without decrypting people’s messages. If it finds a match, the image will be reviewed by a…

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Thousands more flee fires outside Athens amid heat wave

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Thousands of residents fled to safety from a wildfire that burned for a fourth day north of Athens early Friday, during an overnight battle to stop the flames reaching populated areas, electricity installations and historic sites. In heat wave conditions, the blaze tore through forest areas 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) north of the capital, destroying more homes. Ground crews of several hundred firefighters dug fire breaks and hosed the flames. Traffic was halted on the country’s main highway connecting Athens to northern Greece, as crews tried to use the road…

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Missing link on Delhi Metro’s Pink Line plugged; becomes network’s longest corridor

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In a major boost for Delhi Metro, a small segment of its Pink Line at Trilokpuri, which had proved a bottleneck for the DMRC authorities for a long time, was inaugurated on Friday, making it the longest operational corridor of the network. With this, the 59-km-long Majlis Park-Shiv Vihar corridor or the Pink Line, which spans 38 stations, has been fully linked for the first time. Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal jointly inaugurated the section of about 289 metre…

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Ensure Tribunal For Money Laundering Cases Is Functional By September 14: High Court To Centre

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Appellate Tribunal of Prevention of Money Laundering: The tribunal is mandated to consist of a Chairman, who has to be a retired judge of this court or high court and four members, who can be from the fields of law, finance and management. The Delhi High Court on Thursday said it expects the Centre to ensure that the Appellate Tribunal of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (ATPMLA) in the national capital is made functional by September 14. The court said numerous petitions are being filed before it every day assailing…

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Airports Authority Revenue Saw 70% Fall Between June Quarters Of 2019-20 And 2021-22

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According to Ministry of Civil Aviation, even footfalls across 97 Indian airports between January 2021 and July 2021 saw a decline of 40 per cent. Hit by the Coronavirus pandemic, which led to the closure of airports across the country after March 2020, with flights available only for major cities during the better part of last year, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) reported a significant 70 per cent fall in its revenue from Rs 2,976.17 crore during April-June 2019 to only Rs 889 crore during April-June 2021. According to Ministry of Civil Aviation…

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