Morning Digest: Legendary Indian sprinter Milkha Singh passes away; no demand for virtual Parliament session, says Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, and more

Indian dash legend Milkha Singh died on Friday after a month-long battle with COVID-19, throughout which he misplaced his former nationwide volleyball captain spouse Nirmal Kaur to the identical ailment.

Opposition events could have written letters about holding a virtual session of Parliament throughout COVID-19 interval however none raised the difficulty on the ground of the House, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla mentioned on June 18 in an interview to The Puucho s Nistula Hebbar and Sandeep Phukan.

Viewan in Kashmir has develop into the primary village in India to vaccinate all its folks with the primary dose in opposition to COVID-19. Peerzada Ashiq reviews on the challenges confronted by officers in turning a reluctant village in a distant space into a job mannequin for the nation

Jawaharlal Nehru University pupil and Pinjra Tod activist Natasha Narwal, who was launched from Tihar Jail on June 17 after more than a 12 months of incarceration in a case pertaining to northeast Delhi riots, says seeing the wrestle of different inmates with out assist methods has humbled her and strengthened the dedication to make sure that such injustice doesn’t go unchallenged.

J&K is witnessing a heightened political exercise because the Centre mulls inviting all of the political events from the Union Territory (UT) to New Delhi within the final week of June to begin a political engagement, which is prone to pave the way in which for the restoration of statehood.

The unlawful cultivation of herbicide tolerant (HT) Bt cotton has seen an enormous leap this 12 months, with seed producers claiming that the sale of unlawful seed packets has more than doubled from 30 lakh final 12 months to 75 lakh this 12 months. Industry lobbies have written to the Agriculture Ministry, demanding that motion be taken to cease such gross sales and punish offenders, noting that cultivation of the genetically modified cotton variant has critical environmental and financial penalties.

As colleges grapple with the brand new formulation to tabulate Class 12 marks authorised by the Supreme Court on Thursday, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has issued a notification to all principals concerning the Information Technology system being developed in-house to assist them.

Social Media big Twitter was on the receiving finish of extended questioning by members of the Standing Committee on Information and Technology headed by Congress chief Shashi Tharoor, on non-compliance of recent IT guidelines, utilization of manipulated media tag and reality checking. 

In this episode of Worldview, our Diplomatic Affairs Editor Suhasini Haidar takes a take a look at US President Joe Biden’s efforts in constructing American energy again with a number of summits in Europe equivalent to G-7, NATO, and EU conferences in addition to his one on one assembly with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Karthik Subbaraj’s newest needs to have a little bit of every thing: a drama with an ultra-cool gangster (Dhanush) on the centre, a critical political movie coping with a world concern, and a stylishly-shot bubblegum movie with a carefree angle, that doesn’t fairly obtain the specified outcomes.