✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. Regular freight train service starts between India and Bangladesh on the revived Haldibari-Chilahati rail route. The Haldibari – Chilahati rail link is the 5th rail link between India and Bangladesh being made operational. Apart from this Petrapole-Benapole, Gede-Darshana, Singhabad-Rohanpur and Radhikapur-Birol routes are currently operational.
2. India on 01 Aug took over the Presidency of the United Nations Security Council for the month of August. India will be guided by the principles of Transparency, credibility, accountability and effectiveness. Maritime security, peacekeeping and counter-terrorism will be the focus areas for India during its presidency.
3. A hotline was established between Indian Army at Kongra La in North Sikkim and People’s Liberation Army at Khamba Dzong in Tibetan Autonomous Region. This will further the spirit of trust and cordial relations along the borders. The inauguration was attended by ground commanders of the respective Armies. A message of friendship and harmony was also exchanged through the Hotline.
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. The highly contagious Delta variant of the COVID-19 has raised major concerns in China as it spread to 18 provinces with fresh cases emerging in capital Beijing on Sunday
2. World Breastfeeding Week 2021: Began on
Sunday, 1 August and ends on
Saturday, 7 August. It was First celebrated in 1992.
3. World Breastfeeding Week aims to highlight the huge benefits that breastfeeding can bring to the health and welfare of babies and benefits to maternal health, focusing on good nutrition, poverty reduction, and food security. World breastfeeding week has the dual goal of improving the health of babies and promoting, protecting, and supporting the rights of women to breastfeed anywhere and at any time.
4. The United States will not lock down again to curb COVID-19 but “things are going to get worse” as the Delta variant fuels a surge in cases, mostly among the unvaccinated, top U.S. infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said.
5.The death toll from wildfires on Turkey’s southern coast rose to eight on Sunday as firefighters battled for a fifth day to contain blazes still raging in coastal resort towns.
6. Tunisia’s parliament speaker Rached Ghannouchi, head of the moderate Islamist Ennahda party that has had an influential national role for a decade, was admitted to hospital on Sunday, He is 80 yrs.
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Ch Narmada Naveen Kumar |
