Morning digest: India’s COVID-19 tally crosses 9 million; Douglas Stuart’s ‘Shuggie Bain’ wins 2020 Booker Prize, and more
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The variety of confirmed COVID-19 instances in India crossed 90 lakh (9 million) on November 19, in response to information collated from numerous State Health Departments. As many as 48,493 individuals recovered from COVID-19 in a day bringing India’s lively caseload to under 5 % of the whole infections as each day recoveries remained larger than single-day rise in instances for the final 47 days, the Union Health Ministry mentioned in an replace at 8 a.m. on November 19.
New York-based Scottish author Douglas Stuart on Thursday received the 2020 Booker Prize for his debut novel ‘Shuggie Bain’, a coming of age story set in Glasgow, beating Indian-origin creator Avni Doshi.
Mumbai terror assault mastermind and Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed was on Thursday sentenced to 10 years in jail by an anti-terrorism court docket in Pakistan in two more terror financing instances. Saeed, a UN-designated terrorist on whom the U.S. has positioned a $10 million bounty, was arrested on July 17 final yr within the terror financing instances. He was sentenced to 11 years in jail by an anti-terrorism court docket in February this yr in two terror financing instances.
Digital India mission, launched 5 years in the past, was not being seen as any common authorities initiative and had now turn out to be a lifestyle, particularly for the poor and marginalised and these within the authorities, Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned on Thursday. He asserted that ‘technology first’ was their governance mannequin.
A ‘leaked’ audio recording of an accusatory cell phone dialog, purportedly between gold smuggling case accused Swapna Suresh and an nameless individual, has kicked up a row.
Real motion in opposition to city Naxals has been taken by Chhattisgarh govt. in arresting these supplying supplies to Naxals, says Chief Minister
Senior BJP chief and Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Thursday kick-started the social gathering’s marketing campaign for the upcoming District Development Council (DDC) polls in north Kashmir’s Kupwara on Thursday and described the Gupkar alliance because the “Gumrahi gang” of J&K.
The Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) on Thursday indicted Kerala’s Industries Secretary A.P.M. Mohammed Hanish for corruption within the “shoddy” building of the lately decommissioned flyover bridge at Palarivattom in Kochi
The authorities plans to domesticate India as a big information economic system and as a precursor, the nation will quickly have its Data Protection Law in place, mentioned Union IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.
Former Minister and incumbent DMK MLA from Alangulam Poongothai Aladi Aruna was admitted to a non-public hospital in Tirunelveli in an “unconscious state” on Thursday morning. Sources within the DMK mentioned Dr. Poongothai, who was not having fun with good rapport with the social gathering’s office-bearers in her constituency, was upset {that a} member of the family can also be attempting to get the social gathering ticket to contest in 2021 from Alangulam constituency from the place she was elected in 2006 and 2016.
Willow warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus), one among longest migrating small chicken which breeds all through northern and temperate Europe and the Palearctic, sighted for the primary time within the nation at Punchakkari within the capital.
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