Morning Digest | Uttarakhand BJP legislators to elect new leader as we speak; goods exports touch record $95 billion in Q1, and more

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat tendered his resignation to Governor Baby Rani Maurya late on Friday night time, ending his tenure simply 4 months after he took oath, and paved the best way for the appointment of a 3rd Chief Minister for the State this 12 months.

With India registering highest quarterly merchandise exports of $95 billion in the course of the first quarter (April-June) of 2021-22, the nation is now eyeing a goal of $400 billion merchandise exports in the present fiscal, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal mentioned on Friday.

Farm unions will maintain nationwide protests in opposition to the hikes in gasoline costs on July 8. Protestors will convey empty cooking fuel cylinders and collect by roadsides with out obstructing site visitors from 10 a.m. to 12 midday, mentioned the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), after a gathering on the Singhu border on Friday.

A French decide has been tasked with investigating the controversial 2016 multi-billion-dollar sale of Rafale fighter jets to India on “corruption” suspicions, the French nationwide monetary prosecutors’ workplace (PNF) mentioned on Friday.

A drone was noticed over the Indian High Commission advanced in Islamabad final week and Pakistan has been requested to examine the incident and forestall recurrence of such “breach of security”, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) mentioned on Friday.

A May 13 estimate, by one among India’s prime officers overseeing the pandemic response, that India would have 216 crore doses of vaccines from August-December was primarily based on an “optimistic, aspirational assessment” and primarily based on what vaccine producers had conveyed to the federal government.

The Education Ministry advised a Parliamentary panel on schooling that it’s nonetheless collating data from the States on studying losses brought on by COVID-19 college closures and college students’ entry to digital schooling in the course of the pandemic. At its assembly on Friday, the panel heard displays on the usage of satellite tv for pc expertise to bridge studying gaps as a substitute, members mentioned.

The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested two Enforcement Directorate officers in Gujarat for allegedly demanding ₹75 lakh in bribe from the director of a non-public firm that’s dealing with a cash laundering probe.

More than six million EU residents have utilized to keep in the U.K. after Brexit, the federal government mentioned on Friday, practically twice the quantity thought be residing in Britain earlier than it left the bloc.

Italy reached the Euro 2020 semi-finals with a 2-1 win over Belgium on Friday as first-half targets from Nicolo Barella and Lorenzo Insigne settled an exhilarating encounter in opposition to the quantity one-ranked workforce in the world.

Spain’s Mikel Oyarzabal struck the profitable penalty after Switzerland’s Ruben Vargas fired over the bar as Spain gained 3-1 in a shootout following a 1-1 draw in their European Championship quarter-final in Saint Petersburg on Friday.