Новости за 30.08.2020

In a breakaway from traditional norms, RPG Enterprises has become the first Indian diversified conglomerate to do a permanent reset in its workplace policy around work-from-home (WFH). The $4 billion group, which has a presence in tyres, IT, health, energy, infrastructure and plantations, has framed a new policy wherein all its sales people will permanently work remotely, while office-based staff would WFH 50% of the time. For office-based staff, this can extend to 75% in special cases.

At least, 14 people have been killed over the past two days in floods and incessant rain in Madhya Pradesh. Army, Air Force, NDRF and SDRF rescued 11,000 people and took them to temporary shelters — 257 of them had to be rescued by helicopter.

Uneasy conversations have been taking place between the Congress leadership and the G-23 since both sides emerged from a stormy CWC meeting following the letter to party chief Sonia Gandhi questioning absentee leadership and organisational decline.

Captain Eoin Morgan belted a blistering half-century as England chased down a record target at Old Trafford to beat Pakistan by five wickets in the second Twenty20 international on Sunday.

One instance of impersonation, technical glitches and allegations of lack of Covid-19 safety protocols at some of the examination centres marked the online National Aptitude Test in Architecture (NATA), which was held across the country on Saturday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged startups and entrepreneurs to develop innovative “toys and games, for India and of India” to meet domestic demand and increase its share in the global toy business, estimated at Rs 7 lakh crore. He also called upon people to support indigenously developed apps which could replace the ones currently in vogue and are controlled by foreign companies.

Deferring to repetitive demands of bar association leaders, the Supreme Court had planned to start limited physical hearing of cases on a trial basis from this week, but the move appears to have fizzled out as a measly 0.87% of advocates agreed to appear in person to argue cases.

Dr OP Yadav, CEO of National Heart Institute (NHI), where she was admitted 11 days ago, said Dr Padmavati developed a severe infection in both her lungs, which caused the death. Her last rites were performed at the Punjabi Bagh crematorium in west Delhi. The legendary cardiologist led an active and healthy life till her last few days.

Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe won the second stage of the Tour de France, a 186-km mountain ride around Nice, and took the overall leader's yellow jersey on Sunday.

The stellar role of canine soldiers in detecting explosives, tracking terrorists and rescuing disaster victims came in for special mention during PM Modi’s ‘Mann Ki Baat’ address on Sunday, while he also exhorted people to adopt Indian breed dogs if they were planning to keep pets.

Last year, the government had inserted a new provision mandating every business with annual turnover of Rs 50 crore or more to provide customers the choice of making payment through prescribed modes of payment. The list includes systems such as BHIM UPI, UPI-QR Code, Aadhaar Pay, certain debit cards, NEFT and RTGS.

India added a record 80,092 fresh Covid cases on Sunday, becoming the first country in the world to cross the 80,000-mark in one single day since the outbreak of the pandemic, even as the week ending August 30 turned out to be the worst of the month. The growth rate in both fresh cases and fatalities not only increased after a dip, but more than doubled compared to the preceding week.

France's Benoit Paire was removed from the US Open men's draw Sunday after the Grand Slam event announced an unidentified player had withdrawn after testing positive for Covid-19.

Delhi Capitals chairman Parth Jindal on Saturday waded into the debate around the contentious issue of 'Mankading', saying R Ashwin showed a lot of "courage" by running out Jos Buttler at the non-striker's end last IPL. Ashwin, who captained Kings XI Punjab last season, will be turning out for Delhi franchise in the upcoming IPL in the UAE, starting from September 19.

The Currency Note Press (CNP) and India Security Press (ISP) in Nashik will suspend operations for four days from Monday as 40 workers from both facilities have tested positive for Covid-19 in the past two weeks. The CNP prints around 17 million currency notes of various denominations while the ISP prints revenue stamps, stamp papers, passports and visas. The CNP has 2,300 permanent employees and the ISP 1,700.

Ahead of ‘nutrition month’ which is observed in India in September, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday spoke about new initiatives such as creation of ‘Agricultural Fund of India’ and introduction of the concepts of ‘nutrition monitor’ and ‘nutrition card’ in schools to address nutritional challenges through awareness at all levels. ​

TV show 'Saath Nibhaana Saathiya' is said to be returning with a second season, and Devoleena Bhattacharjee and Rupal Patel will be a part of it. To those uninitiated, Devoleena had replaced Giaa Manek to play the Gopi bahu.

Russia and India were declared as joint winners in the FIDE online Olympiad on Sunday. The Vidit Gujrathi-led side had initially lost their second leg of the final but they lodged an appeal against the FIDE appeals committee saying that their players lost their matches due to a server failure. FIDE then took the decision of awarding the title to both India and Russia.

The Madhya Pradesh government will arrange free transport for candidates appearing for JEE and NEET examinations, to be held in the next month, chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Sunday.

It has been more than a week since all Indian Premier League (IPL) teams landed in UAE. However, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is yet to announce the schedule for the upcoming season.

Union health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Sunday expressed hope that we should have "very significant control" over Covid-19 by Diwali."...hopefully that in the next couple of months, maybe by Diwali time, we should have a very significant control over the coronavirus," Vardhan said.

India all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja on Sunday shared an all smile picture of former skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and said "when you smile, whole world stops and stares for a while".

Military officer Trilokchand Raina's mastery at making bombs in an ordnance factory was only getting him a measly salary of rupees ten thousand a month. Not enough to give wings to his son Suresh's cricketing dreams. But, more than two decades after those days of struggle, riding hard work, determination, Raina ended his professional career as an international cricketer with plenty of success.

The government should not be running airports and airlines, Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Sunday, adding that he hopes to privatise Air India during 2020. His remarks come at a time when the Kerala government has opposed the Union Cabinet's approval to lease out the Thiruvananthapuram airport to Adani Enterprises under the PPP model for a period of 50 years.

La Liga on Sunday released a statement saying Lionel Messi's Barcelona contract was still valid, days after his announcement that he wants to leave the club and hours after he failed to attend a pre-season medical. The ruling body said the only way for the Argentine forward to be released from the contract was to trigger a 700-million euros release clause.