✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. PM Modi will deliver a keynote address virtually at the United Nations during the High-Level Dialogue on Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought today.
2. Russian COVID19 vaccine SputnikV is likely to be available at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in Delhi from Tuesday (15 June).
3. More than 50 shanties were gutted in a fire that broke out at a Rohingya refugee camp near Kalindi Kunj Metro station in south east Delhi, No one was injured in the fire, The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained.
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. New Israeli govt sworn in, ending Netanyahu’s 12-yr reign. : Govt led by Yamina head Naftali Bennett, ousting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from power after an uninterrupted 12 years.
2. World leaders gathered at the G7 Summit in Cornwall discussed the possibility that a laboratory leak in central China’s Wuhan city may have a connection with the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Whereas China asserts that the COVID-19 broke out in different places in the world and China only reported the virus first.
4. G7 Summit : Leaders from the Group of Seven wealthy democracies say they will work together to challenge China’s “non-market economic practices” and to call on Beijing to respect human rights in Xinjiang and Hong Kong.
5. A gas pipe explosion in a residential community in a central Chinese city killed 12 people and injured 138.
6. China has initiated a plan to build a commercial centre on a plot of land which was freed up by demolishing a mosque in Xinjiang’s Hotan region in 2018.
Ch. Naveen Kumar |