JOIN USFrom the Newsroom: NCB names Rhea in charge sheet over Sushant Singh Rajput case; Prime Video India head not to be arrested
In your evening news brief, Narcotics Control Bureau files chargesheet in Sushant Singh Rajput case; Supreme Court grants protection from arrest to Amazon Prime Video's India head China fixes GDP target of over 6% in 2021 and UN report says household food waste in India is about 68.7 million tonnes a year.
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Here is the top news of March 5, 2021:
Nearly nine months after Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead in his flat, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Friday filed its charge sheet in the case that involves the drug angle behind the mysterious death.
Rhea Chakraborty has been named in the charge sheet. Chakraborty, her brother Showik and his friend and assistant director Rishikesh Pawar, house manager Samuel Miranda and house help Dipesh Sawant are some of the accused in the case.
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The Supreme Court Friday said the Centre's guidelines on regulating social media do not have any provision for taking appropriate action against digital platforms showing inappropriate content. It also granted protection from arrest to Amazon Prime Video's India head Aparna Purohit in FIRs lodged over web series Tandav
A bench comprising justices Ashok Bhushan and R S Reddy also issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh government on Purohit's plea for anticipatory bail in FIRs on Tandav series.
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China, which was the first to be hit by the Covid-19 and the earliest to recover from the lockdown effects, on Friday, fixed a GDP target of over six per cent in 2021, optimistic of economic recovery after last year’s 2.3 per cent growth, its weakest in decades.
Premier Li Keqiang, in an announcement at the country’s Parliament National People's Congress (NPC), said China, the world's second largest economy, aims to expand its Gross Domestic Product by over six per cent in 2021, with more efforts on reform, innovation and high-quality development.
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An estimated 931 million tonnes of food was wasted globally in 2019, enough to circle the Earth seven times, according to a UN report which said that household food waste in India is about 68.7 million tonnes a year.
The Food Waste Index Report 2021, from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and partner organisation WRAP, said that around 931 million tonnes of food waste was generated in 2019, sixty-one per cent of which came from households, 26 per cent from foodservice and 13 per cent from retail.
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Source: DHNS/ PTI