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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces resignation after his govt falls  amid rebellion from ministers within 50+ ministers resigned back to back, Rishi Sunak could replace. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has agreed to resign with Downing Street saying he will make a statement to the country today. Johnson had been hanging onto power despite the resignation of a string of his top ministers. On Thursday the man he appointed as finance minister less than 48 hours earlier publicly urged Johnson to quit. More than 50 others in a rebellion that had left government dangerously close to paralysis. With eight ministers, including two secretaries of state, resigning in the last two hours, an isolated and powerless Johnson was set to bow to the inevitable and declare his was stepping down later, media reports said. "Boris Johnson will resign as Conservative Party leader today," the BBC's political editor Chris Mason said. Last month, the British PM managed to win the vote...

Back to the olden days: Zimbabwe to introduce gold coins as a store of value to tackle inflation , local currency tumbles "Mosi-oa-tunya" coin can be used as cash, traded internationally. Zimbabwe says it will introduce gold coins later this month as it tries to curb soaring inflation amid a slump in its currency. The country's central bank also outlined plans to make the US dollar legal tender for the next five years. The central bank's main interest rate was more than doubled this month to 200%, after the annual rate of inflation rose above 190%. Zimbabwe's central bank said it would start selling gold coins this month as a store of value to tame runaway inflation, which has considerably weakened the local currency. The central bank governor John Mangudya said in a statement on Monday that the coins will be available for sale from July 25 in local currency. The "Mosi-oa-tunya" coin, named after Victoria falls, can be converted into cash and be traded l...

Almost all countries will hit recession in next 1 year : Global downfall has already  begun for major economies Euro at 20-year low, Rupee all-time low, crude falls amid fear. The recession calls are getting louder on Wall Street and share markets of major economies, but for many of the households and businesses who make up the world economy the downturn is already here. Highest inflation in 40-years and a recession on the horizon. Interest rates through the roof. Stock markets on the decline. Wages lagging behind cost-of-living increases. Oil prices slipped in early Asian trade on Thursday, after hitting a nearly three-month low during the previous session, as fears of a potential global recession spurred concerns about oil demand. The euro hovered near a two-decade low against the dollar on Thursday as Europe's energy woes cast a long shadow over the economic outlook. The US dollar is up over 6.7% against rupee so far this year. So to limit the decline in the Indian rupee, the go...

Cyclists play Rock, Paper, Scissor at finish line to decide who will become the winner of race , visuals goes viral The Tour of Slovenia saw this interesting event of sportsmanship. Cycling races are generally won by the fastest guy on the road, with the big sprinters taking out flat races and beanpole climbers winning once things get steep. However, over the weekend at the Tour of Slovenia, two professional cyclists decided who would cross the line first with a quick game of “rock, paper, scissors” as they approached the finish. Stage 4 of the Tour of Slovenia began in the charming spa town of Laško and was set to cover 156 kilometres and more than 2,400 metres of climbing as they approached the mountain top finale at Velika Planina. After winning Stage 3 ahead of his UAE Team Emirates teammate Rafał Majka, two-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar from was in the overall lead of the race and was the favourite to also win Stage 4 as well. As the Tour of Slovenia is Pogacar’s home r...

Ongoing Assam floods that killed 189 & destroyed lakhs of houses are man-made :  Embankment breached by miscreants Thousands of crores blemished, IAF and Army continue rescue. Five persons have been arrested in Assam's Cachar district in connection with the breach of an embankment of the Barak river, which eventually led to a massive flood in Silchar city and Assam, an official said on Saturday. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma earlier said that the flood was a 'man-made' disaster and the miscreants would face stringent action. On May 24, the Water Resources Department filed a police complaint against unknown miscreants for breaking through the embankment at Bethukandi, some 3 kilometres from the town centre, to allow rainwater from a marsh to pour into the Barak river. “The Bethukandi incident is a big lesson for us. The next time there is a flood, we have to post policemen at the embankment so that nobody can breach it,” he said. Mr. Sarma said the Cachar Dist...

Nature sounding alarms: 25 earthquakes in the last 2 days at Andaman & Nicobar  Islands , residents & authorities alert Repeated seismic activities could induce tsunami-like situation. In the wake of a dozen seismic events reported in the Andaman and Nicobar Region on Monday and Tuesday, a depth distribution analysis of the earthquakes has suggested that the events were mostly concentrated at mid-crustal level and along back-arc, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a high-seismic zone and is prone to earthquakes. The entire island chain is also susceptible to tsunamis both from large local quakes and also from massive distant shocks. No warning system is presently in place for any of the islands in this chain. There were 25 seismic events of magnitude range between 3.8 and 5 reported in the region in the past two days, and the NCS analysis found the epicentre locations of these earthquakes between the West Andaman Fault and Anda...

After India, US could soon ban TikTok for acting as a 'Chinese spy ': FCC asks Google, Apple to remove from app store Are they deleting Tiktok, US ban Tiktok, Chinese Spy, Along with FCC, senators also plan on upgrading security. The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) head Brendan Carr has written to Apple and Google requesting them to remove the Chinese short-video making platform TikTok from their respective app stores for "its pattern of surreptitious data practices". In his letter, Carr said TikTok "harvests swaths of sensitive data that new reports show is being accessed in Beijing". "As you know TikTok is an app available to millions of Americans through your app stores, and it collects vast troves of sensitive data about those US users," he informed Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai in the letter. The social media company sent a letter on Thursday to U.S. senators acknowledging that employees outside the country could s...

Mass shooting at US 4th of July parade kills 6 & injures dozens in Chicago where people gathered to celebrate 'Freedom' Multiple mass-shootings took place on US's independence day. A gunman perched on a rooftop opened fire on families waving flags and children riding bikes at a Fourth of July parade on Monday, killing six and wounding more than 36 in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park. The gunman climbed to the roof of a business using a ladder in an alley, police said. The attack turned a civic display of patriotism into a scene of panicked mayhem. Hours later, police announced that they had a suspect in custody after 22-year-old Robert E. Crimo III surrendered to authorities. Mass shooting Chicago video The shooting is part of a wave of gun violence plaguing the United States, where approximately 40,000 deaths a year are caused by firearms, according to the Gun Violence Archive website. And it cast a pall over America's Independence Day, in which towns and citie...

More than half of IndiGo flights delayed after staff goes on 'mass sick leave' on Air  India's recruitment day IndiGo flight delayed, IndiGo mass sick leave, Air India recruitment day,  Air India mass sick leave, 55% IndiGo domestic flights delayed,

India successfuly conducts maiden flight of stealth combat 'unmanned air vehicle' : DRDO hails indegenous tech India's maiden flight of stealth combat, unmanned air vehicle, DRDO indegenous tech, India's stealth combat drone, mini-US stealth bomber, Stealth Wing Flying Testbed (SWiFT), US B-2 stealth bomber, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), It's like a mini-US stealth bomber, developed in Bengaluru. Future is UAV? The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has successfully carried out the maiden flight of the Autonomous Flying Wing Technology Demonstrator. It was carried out from the Aeronautical Test Range, Chitradurga, Karnataka, on Friday. The demonstrator, also known as the ‘Stealth Wing Flying Testbed’ (SWiFT), looks like the mini version of a US B-2 stealth bomber, has a similar “flying wing” configuration. This enables it to carry more fuel and remain in air for a longer duration. It also gives the aircraft less radar signature. The flight named -...

Meet Captain Monica Khanna, the pilot who saved lives of 190 people onboard flight that caught fire & lost its engine On Sunday, Patna-Delhi Spice Jet aircraft had a close shave. The safe emergency landing of SpiceJet flight (SG-723) at the Patna airport was possible due to the cool and calm efforts of its Captain Monika Khanna and co-pilot Bajeet Singh Bhatia. Both the pilots have emerged as heroes. A SpiceJet Boeing 737 with 185 people and 5 crew members on board made an emergency landing in Patna right after take-off as its left engine had caught fire. Videos shot by locals on the ground show sparks coming out from the left engine. All passengers were safely evacuated and there has been no report of any injury, officials said. After consulting with First Officer Balpreet Singh Bhatia and Air Traffic Control (ATC), she switched off the affected engine and landed the ‘overweight’ aircraft skillfully in Patna. Her quick-thinking and prompt action saved the lives of around 185 pass...

Zomato delivery boy murdered by 2 Nihang sikhs with kirpan for smoking cigarette on delhi streets, used kirpan Sagar Singh died due to blood loss, nihangs run away. In another incident of brutal violence by Nihang Sikhs, a youth was killed in Delhi for allegedly smoking on the road. In the early hours of Wednesday, June 15, two Nihang Sikhs reportedly stabbed a food delivery executive in Delhi’s Tilak Nagar area over a petty issue. The 29-year-old deceased who has been identified as Sagar Singh worked as a delivery partner for the food delivery company Zomato. Deputy commissioner of police (west) Ghanshyam Bansal said the police control room was informed about the incident at 12.30. When the local police reached the spot, residents told them that the victim has been taken to the hospital. Sagar was declared dead on arrival by doctors at the hospital, he added. “The victim, Sagar Singh, was stabbed in his chest. Initial probe showed that Singh had a quarrel with two people after which ...

5 million Indians were displaced due to climate change last year as the country sees rise in natural disasters: UN report 23.7 million people were displaced worldwide. Nearly 50 lakh people in India were internally displaced due to climate change and disasters in 2021, news agency PTI quoted the annual Global Trends Report by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR). The UNHCR report states that 10 crore people across the world were forced to flee their homes last year due to violence, food insecurity, human rights abuses, the climate crisis, war in Ukraine etc. "The largest displacements in the context of disasters in 2021 occurred in China (6.0 million), the Philippines (5.7 million), and India (4.9 million). Most disaster displacements during the year were temporary," the report said. India is one of the countries that are highly vulnerable to climate change with 80 percent of the population living in districts that are highly vulnerable to extreme hydro-me...

Agneepath scheme protesters attack school bus & ambulance , what makes us think they will safeguard this country? Youth will be recruited for armed forces through this scheme. The Agneepath protests have seen a sudden but major uproar throughout the country despite the scheme being in favor of the youth which shows how misinformation is one of the major chaos-creating factors in this country. However the youth had a legitimate question of job security, it must be noted that they would even be receiving education as well as training even after we sideline the monetary benefits of monthly salary, end of tenure bonus, and the insurance. These youth not only will be able to get boot money for their future life endeavors in whatever stream they choose, but also training + heads-up if they wish to continue to serve the army. In the wake of massive protests against the Agnipath scheme, the Centre on Saturday even announced 10% reservation for Agniveers in the recruitment of Central Armed ...

India's UPI & RuPay cards will soon be accepted in France under their European entry: NPCI says 'more to come' UAE, Singapore, Bhutan and Nepal already accept it. Going Global: After the UAE, Singapore, Nepal, and Bhutan, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) on Thursday said it has launched the Unified Payment Services (UPI) in Europe, starting with France. The National Payments Corporation of India International (NPCI International), the international arm of National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Lyra Network, a French payment solutions company. As part of the MoU, Lyra Networks will allow Indians to pay using UPI and Rupay cards at terminals and machines offered by Lyra Networks, making it easier especially for students and tourists from India to make payments. Indian diplomat in France Jawed Ashraf recounted an experience with the seamless and transparent mode of digital payment and how effectiv...

'Har Ghar Jhanda' Central govt launches campaign that will see Tricolour on every Indian house   this Independence day on 15 August To mark 75 years of Independence, govt requested all Indians to unfurl national flag on their houses across the country. In a bid to invoke feelings of patriotism in the hearts of people and also promote awareness about the national flag, the central government on Wednesday announced the ‘Har Ghar Jhanda’ campaign under which it has asked people to hoist the national flag over their houses on 15 August. The campaign has been launched as part of the ongoing Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, where India is celebrating and commemorating of 75 years independence. In a statement, the government said, “Our relationship with the flag has always been more formal and institutional than personal. Bringing the flag home collectively as a nation in the 75th year of independence thus becomes symbolic of not only an act of personal connection to the Tiranga but also an e...

Click the photo of an illegally parked vehicle and earn ₹500 : Govt to bring new 'potential' law that will engage citizens Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari said we are still framing it.' The Union Transport Ministry is working on bringing a new law wherein people clicking and sending pictures of wrong parking of cars will be rewarded from the fine collected from the offenders. The Ministry believes such a move might curb illegal parking. Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari had reportedly said that the law will be enforced under which a person sending photograph of a wrongly parked vehicle will get Rs 500/- if the total fine works out to be Rs. 1000/-. Addressing an event in Delhi, Gadkari, who is known for his frank views, said that he is contemplating legislation to curb the practice of wrongly parked vehicles on streets, which often results in the clogging of roads. It has not been confirmed whether the minister's statement is indeed supported by ...

Indian youth can now join Army, Navy & Air Force for 4 years at a heavy pay : Govt  launches 'Agneepath scheme' With a ₹40,000 pm salary and ₹11.71 lakh end of tenure bonus. Aiming to boost recruitment and involvement of youth in the security forces, India's defence ministry is now set to hire 46,000 youth every year for a span of 4-years where the recruits would be trained by the armed forces in the skills required. Recruits hired under the scheme would be called Agniveers. Of these, about 25% would be retained for an additional tenure of 15 years for permanent commission. The others would be allowed to leave and given a Seva Nidhi – a corpus of one time amount of Rs. 11.71 lakh plus interest. This amount would be tax free and can be used by the individual to further their dreams. New recruits will receive a monthly package that includes benefits such as risk and hardship allowances. They will receive a monthly salary of Rs 30,000 to Rs 40,000. The Agniveers will also ...

In his first international tournament after 10+ months, Neeraj Chopra breaks national record & wins silver in Finland Neeraj returned to the field in fire mode afterc Olympic gold. Back with a bang! India's 'golden boy' Neeraj Chopra set a new national record as he threw 89.30 metres at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Finland. Chopra's earlier national record was 88.07m which he had set in Patiala in March last year. He had won the Tokyo Olympics gold with a throw of 87.58m on August 7, 2021. Neeraj Chopra match Chopra could not have asked for a better way to return to competitive action for the time since Tokyo Olympics as the ace jevelin thrower wins silver. On his much-anticipated return to international competition, in Turku on Tuesday, Chopra let out a similar cry as the javelin pierced through the sunny sky of the Finnish city that’s considered the spiritual home of javelin throw. And just like his throw in Tokyo, he lifted both his arms to celebrate. Neeraj started ...

Days after threat by multiple terrorist organizations, live grenade found under Delhi's flyover defused by NSG Kids playing in the area found a pot containing the grenade. A group of boys playing in the Yamuna river near the Delhi-Noida Direct (DND) flyway discovered a hand grenade Saturday night which triggered panic and the entire area was cordoned off. Revealing details, the official said, “Around 8.15 p.m. on Saturday, a sack with a hand grenade inside it was found submerged in water in the Hindon canal under the DND flyover in Mayur Vihar police station area.” After receiving the information, the anti-terror unit of the Delhi Police — Special Cell — and National Security Guard (NSG) commandos were informed about the development and then reached the spot in the Yamuna Khadar area. As per the official “The bomb was then safely disposed of by the NSG commandos,” Meanwhile, an FIR under section 4 of the Explosives Substance Act was registered at the Mayur Vihar police station. The...