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2021-06-29 10:51:49 SHOCKING!

In a shocking incident, an Audi driver who was under the influence of alcohol, crashed into a taxi, killing one person in India's Telangana. The deadly crash was caught on camera, with the video showing the car racing along the rain-drenched road and colliding into the taxi from behind. This collision sent the taxi into an uncontrollable spin before crashing into the roadside, killing the passenger and injuring the driver. The Audi sped away without stopping Open / Comment

2021-06-29 04:08:49 Catch up on our latest updates:

India has deployed 50,000 additional troops along the China border which makes the total about 200,000 Indian troops.

Over 40,000 cases of the black mold infection have been reported in India, and over 3,000 people have died.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and EU Commissioner for International Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen discussed the pandemic, during which Jaishankar underlined the importance of equitable vaccine access and a fair travel regime. Open / Comment

2021-06-28 19:36:38 Twitter on Monday appointed California-based Jeremy Kessel as its Indian grievance officer – despite the law calling for a local applicant.

It is unclear whether Kessel is intended as a permanent appointment or whether he is an acting GO until Twitter is able to find someone else homegrown. Open / Comment

2021-06-28 18:08:07 Opposition members in the Sindh Assembly from Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) brought in a "charpoy" (bed) into the House, describing it as a “funeral of democracy".

They disrupted proceedings after their leader Haleem Adil Sheikh was allegedly denied permission to address the House. Open / Comment

2021-06-28 16:21:33 India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week, at the "Toycathon 2021", said most online and digital games on the market don’t have an Indian concept, raising speculation on another ban.

Modi added that many of these online games either "promote violence or cause mental stress".

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2021-06-28 15:34:20 Contractual workers of the state-owned Punjab Roadways/Punbus started a three-day statewide strike on Monday, demanding regularisation of their work.

"We have been working for the last 13-14 years. They had promised to regularise us within three years. But we are still contractual employees", said the president of the workers' union, Baljeet Singh Gill.

The protests are scheduled to be held from 8 a.m. until noon each day. During these four hours, no buses will operate at any bus station. Open / Comment

2021-06-28 14:36:12 A youth in the Araria district of Bihar was brutally beaten to death by villagers on Monday morning.

The district police have arrested two of the alleged attackers. The deceased's father has levelled allegations against 18 persons for this brutal act.

The incident took place in the village of Chakai near the Jokihat police station when a group of villagers caught the victim named Ismyle Khan, a native of the adjoining village of Tapra, accusing him of theft. They tied Ismyle to an electric pole and beat him to death.

Ismyle's father Soyab Khan claimed that his son went to Chakai to buy milk.

"We have a lane (Gali) dispute with a person named Domar Yadav. They levelled false allegations against my son. They killed my son in a pre-planned manner to take revenge for the lane dispute", Khan said Open / Comment

2021-06-28 13:48:39 India has raised concerns with the European Medicines Agency (EMA) after Covishield, manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII), was excluded from the list of approved vaccines under the European Union's (EU) "Green Pass".

Sources have told Sputnik that the exclusion of Indian-made vaccines will be taken up at a diplomatic level in the coming days.

Covishield, the Indian version of British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca's COVID vaccine, is one of the jabs being administered in the South Asian country's vaccination drive.

It is the only Indian vaccine to have been approved by the World Health Organisation (WHO) for Emergency Use Listing (EUL) Open / Comment

2021-06-28 13:46:32 Visitors to Goa who have taken both vaccination shots will be allowed to enter the state without a COVID-negative certificate, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Monday.

Speaking to reporters at the State Secretariat, Sawant also said that the positivity rate in Goa has dropped to six percent, while also stating that the recovery rate has also shown a corresponding increase Open / Comment

2021-06-28 13:28:49 A day after two explosive-laden drones attacked an Indian Air Force station, the Defence Ministry on Monday said it had thwarted another such attack near Jammu.

The Defence Ministry said it averted a major threat after two drones were seen near a military station in the strategically crucial Jammu region. But the drones flew away after the Indian Army fired at them.

"On midnight of 27-28 June 2021, two separate drone activities were spotted over the Ratnuchak-Kaluchak Military area by alert troops. Quick Reaction Teams engaged them with firing. Both of the drones flew away", the ministry's statement said Open / Comment