✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. Ahead of India’s Independence Day on August 15, astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti sent greetings from the International Space Station (ISS). In a video shared by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the astronaut said, “It’s a pleasure to congratulate India on 75 years of Independence.”
2. Thousands of Indian students who had come back from China after the outbreak of COVID-19 may now soon get a chance to resume their education as the first batch comprising many such youngsters could soon leave for the neighbouring country, Chinese Ambassador Sun Weidong said on Saturday
3. The newly ‘re-opened’ Indian embassy in Kabul is expected to increase its operations, Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan Abdul Qahar Balkhi announced.
4. Telegram has released its new iOS update after getting approval from Apple. Earlier this week, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov had complained about the update being “stuck in Apple’s review for two weeks”
5. Farhatullah Ghauri, a terrorist recruiter and financier for Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), has been using a network of accounts on Facebook, Telegram and YouTube to call on Muslims in India to revolt against the country, a detailed investigation by artificial Intelligence (AI) start-up Logically has found.
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. Firefighters halt spread of “monster” wildfire in France’s Gironde region.
2. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was “appalled” to learn about the attack on author Salman Rushdie, saying ‘violence cannot be a response to words’. Rushdie was stabbed by a 24-year-old man in New York on Friday.
3. 🇬🇧 UK Cabinet Minister Robert Buckland who backed Rishi Sunak in the race to become Britain’s next PM until recently, on Saturday switched sides to rival candidate Liz Truss’ camp. Buckland said now he believes Truss is the “right person to take the country forward”.
4. NASA has said that it will intentionally crash its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft into an asteroid on September 26, 2022. This will be done to “demonstrate and test” DART’s capability to deflect asteroids, NASA said. It could be used if, in the future, a hazardous asteroid on a collision course with Earth was ever found.
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