News Highlights: AAP MLA urges release of family members of Bikru case accused

AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh on Tuesday urged Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel, seeking her intervention in the release of Amar Dubey and Hiru Dubey's family members who have been in jail for the past 10 months in connection with the Bikru case.

. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that "hundreds" of US sanctions will remain on Iran even if the United States rejoins a nuclear accord.

President Joe Biden's administration has been engaged in indirect talks with Iran about reversing former president Donald Trump's exit from the 2015 nuclear accord, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

. The World Bank on Tuesday projected India's economy to grow at 8.3 per cent in 2021 and 7.5 per cent in 2022, even as its recovery is being hampered by an unprecedented second wave of the Covid-19, the largest outbreak in the world since the beginning of the deadly pandemic.

. A restaurant employee was raped and stripped of all her clothes in Assam's Jorhat district allegedly by two men who have been arrested, police said on Tuesday.

The crime took place at Tarajan area on AT Road in the heart of Jorhat town at around 9 pm Monday.

. After mobile diesel dispensers, CNG too is now available through mobile units in India.

Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday inaugurated India's first CNG Mobile Refuelling Units (MRUs).

. He will chair, along with his Kenyan counterpart, the 3rd meeting of the India-Kenya Joint Commission meeting which will review all aspects of the bilateral relationship.

. The World Bank on Tuesday projected India's economy to grow at 8.3 per cent in 2021 and 7.5 per cent in 2022, even as its recovery is being hampered by an unprecedented second wave of the Covid-19, the largest outbreak in the world since the beginning of the deadly pandemic.

. In a shocking case of human cruelty, a 95-year-old woman was allegedly starved and kept confined to a toilet in her house for a fortnight by her son inthe Salem district.

. A five-year-old girl died of thirst while her grandmother fell unconscious in Raniwara in Jalore district of Rajasthan, police said on Tuesday.

. Sunil Chhetri has never liked counting his goals and he prefers to keep it that way even after surpassing the great Lionel Messi as the second-highest scorer in international football.

. Infosys on Tuesday came under attack from Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman after many users took to Twitter complaining of technical glitches on thenew Income Tax e-filing portal, which went live on June 7.

. The Shiv Sena and NCP on Tuesday said the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government will complete its full term of five years with NCP state president Jayant Patil saying there is nothing to be "afraid" about a separate meeting that took place between Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi.

Earlier in the day, Thackeray, accompanied by Deputy Chief Minister and senior NCP leader Ajit Pawar and senior Congress leader Ashok Chavan met the prime minister and discussed issues related to the Maratha reservation, pending GST compensation and the proposed Metro carshed in Kanjurmarg.

. Fastly is a cloud computing service provider widely used by dozens of high-traffic websites, including but not limited to The New York Times , CNN , Twitch and the UK government's website.

. It took $100,000 plus expenses, and the opportunity for a reduced prison sentence, for the smartphone developer to collaborate with the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in 2018 and kick-start Operation Trojan Horse, according to a court document.

. Prominent international media websites, including The Guardian , CNN and The New York Times, are facing a global outage with sites displayingerror messages.

. Microblogging platform Twitter has "withheld" the accounts of Punjabi singer JazzyB, hip-hop artist L-Fresh the Lion and two others in response to a legal demand in India, even as it draws flak over delay in complying with the new IT rules in the country.

. The Karnataka Common Entrance Test for various vocational courses, including engineering, is scheduled to be conducted on August 28 and 29.

. The government of India on Tuesday issued revised guidelines for the national Covid-19 vaccination programme, to be implemented from June 21.

. With the US sending millions of its Covid-19 vaccines to several countries, including India, Secretary of State Tony Blinken said that there is a need to increase production capacity on a regional basis across the globe.

Testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the State Department's 2022 budgetary proposals, Blinken asserted that it is important to have three-fourths of the world vaccinated soon.

"If we stayed on the current course, before we were distributing the 80 million vaccines, before we're looking at increasing production around the world, not just in the United States, we're on track to have the world vaccinated, or at least to have 75 or so per cent of the world vaccinated, not until 2024," he said in response to a question. - PTI

. President Joe Biden reaffirmed US support for Ukraine's territorial integrity Monday after Russian troop movements on its borderand invited President Volodymyr Zelensky to the White House.

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters that Biden talked by phone with Zelensky, telling him "he will stand up firmly for Ukraine's sovereignty" and "looks forward to welcoming him to the White House this summer." ( AFP )

. Apple Inc on Monday said a new "private relay" feature designed to obscure a user's web browsing behavior from internet service providers and advertisers will not be available in China for regulatory reasons.

The feature was one of number of privacy protections Apple announced at its annual software developer conference on Monday. ( Reuters )

. Long-time Tesla Inc executive Jerome Guillen, who oversaw its Semi electric trucks slated to be launched this year, has left the company, Tesla said on Monday, barely three months after taking over the role.

Guillen, who has been with the company for over a decade since starting as a Model S program director in 2010, oversaw Tesla's entire vehicles business before being named president of the Tesla Heavy Trucking unit in March. ( Reuters )

News Highlights: AAP MLA urges release of family members of Bikru case accused

AAP MLA urges release of family members of Bikru case accused

Blinken says 'hundreds' of US sanctions to remain on Iran

World Bank projects Indian economy to grow at 8.3% in 2021

Assam woman raped, stripped by 2; accused arrested

After diesel, CNG refuelling through mobile units

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