Samsung starts taking online pre-orders for TVs, ACs, and other electronics

Consumers pre-booking on Samsung Shop will get 15 per cent cashback when paying with HDFC cards

Current Affairs : Samsung on Monday reported pre-booking offers on electronic items for individuals who need to buy TVs and computerized machines after a lockdown to contain the coronavirus is facilitated.

The South Korean hardware creator is taking requests online on Samsung Shop and looks to get them express conveyed from the Samsung Authorized Retailer when conveyances are allowed. The offer applies to Samsung shopper gadgets items – TVs, fridges, forced air systems, clothes washers and keen broilers.

The organization in an announcement stated, “As a precautionary measure against the spread of the pandemic, Samsung has made plans over its retail and appropriation channel, to push customers to pre-book the items, without venturing out of their homes.”

Shoppers pre-setting up for Samsung Shop will get 15 percent cashback while paying with HDFC cards. There is an alternatives to pick no intrigue likened regularly scheduled payments (no-cost EMIs) and long haul fund choices, as long as year and a half.

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Bengal has highest Covid-19 mortality rate in India: IMCT tells Chief Secy

A BSF jawan deployed in the entourage of the IMCT to West Bengal has tested positive for COVID-19, following which over 50 personnel of the force were quarantined

Current Affairs : The focal government’s Inter-Ministerial Central Team (IMCT) has said West Bengal has the most noteworthy death rate in the nation at 12.8 percent. The perception was made by IMCT pioneer Apoorva Chandra in his letter to state Chief Secretary Rajiva Sinha, PTI detailed.

“This amazingly high death rate is an away from of low testing, feeble reconnaissance, and following,” Chandra said in the letter.

An error has been brought to the fore in the quantity of Covid-19 cases revealed by the state in its clinical announcements and its correspondence with the Union government, Chandra noted in the letter.

The group, drove by Chandra, came back to the national capital in the wake of having finished fourteen days of remain in the city.

A BSF jawan conveyed in the company of the IMCT to West Bengal has tried constructive for COVID-19, after which more than 50 staff of the power were isolated, authorities said. They said the contaminated staff is filling in as a driver (constable position) and was joined with the IMCT that was visiting Kolkata and different spots to audit and recommend measures to the state government for control of coronavirus.

The IMCT was remaining at the Border Security Force (BSF) visitor house in Kolkata, and all the coordinations like vehicles, security faculty, and nourishment were being masterminded by the paramilitary.

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Governor Dhankar criticises Mamata; says Bengal becoming police state

West Bengal Governor said it is time for the chief minister’s “tryst with reality” and to get down to provide relief to the people suffering from the coronavirus pandemic

Current Affairs : West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday blamed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for “running a police state” and said her “lost” position about established standards reflects “dictatorship”.

“West Bengal is, shockingly, rising as a ‘police state’ with anybody posting via web-based networking media, to the dislike of the decision agreement, gets a police thump at his entryway,” the representative said in a letter to the main priest.

He said it is the ideal opportunity for the main clergyman’s “tryst with the real world” and to get down to give alleviation to the individuals experiencing the coronavirus pandemic.

“The severe truth is – People in the state just know very well indeed ‘Who in the State is a usurper and extra-Constitutional wellspring of intensity’! Who runs government and coops! Who is this ABCD! A loosely held bit of information! Without a doubt I am not the one, I can guarantee you that I am sensibly refreshed about issues of state,” Dhankhar wrote in the letter to Banerjee.

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Essential services in Pune’s containment zones to open for limited duration

Everything else will remain closed excluding medical stores and hospitals, said Pune Police in an order

Current Affairs : Pune Municipal partnership has recognized 69 regulation zones where all shops conveying fundamental administrations will remail open between 10 am to 2 pm.

Everything else will stay shut barring clinical stores and medical clinics, said Pune Police in a request.

Outside these control zones, all shops identified with fundamental administrations will stay open between 10 am to 6 pm. For shops identified with unnecessary administrations, just five shops in a single path will be permitted to stay open, barring clinical stores and emergency clinics, as indicated by the request.

Ordinary open development outside the regulation zone will be permitted between 7 am to 7 pm.

Then, eight passings have been accounted for in Pune area over the most recent 24 hours and 139 new positive cases have been accounted for. The loss of life in Pune area currently remains at 111 while complete positive cases in Pune arrives at 2051.

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Bengaluru’s tent house owners, wedding organisers bearing brunt of lockdow

The event managers and organisers are incurring huge losses as most of the wedding events were scheduled to be organised during the summer season

Current Affairs : As different divisions the nation over are seeing a major bilip regarding income in the midst of the coronavirus lockdown, Bengaluru’s tent house proprietors, wedding organizers and coordinators are additionally enduring the worst part of lockdown by confronting money related difficulties.

Addressing ANI, MB Tambotti, a tent house proprietor said “No occasion has been held for 40 days. Nothing is permitted. We can’t pay our aides, I would demand help from the administration at this hour of emergency”

“We are in extreme condition now of time,” he included.

The occasion directors and coordinators are causing enormous misfortunes as the greater part of the wedding occasions were booked to be composed throughout the mid year season.

All the wedding and related occasions have been put to end the nation over in the midst of the Covid-19 emergency. Consequently, many wedding occasions have been deferred or dropped until further notice.

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Shah Rukh, Aamir, Hrithik raise over Rs 3 cr in online concert for Covid-19

Facebook collaborated with some of the biggest names in Bollywood and Hollywood to put together a home-to-home fundraiser concert, ‘I For India’

Current Affairs : Bollywood geniuses Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Madhuri Dixit Nene among others turned underwriters for an advanced show to raise assets for the frontliners working nonstop to contain the coronavirus pandemic in the nation.

Facebook worked together with probably the greatest names in Indian media outlet and Hollywood names like Mick Jagger, Will Smith and Sophie Turner to assemble a home-to-home pledge drive show, ‘I For India’ on Sunday.

The line-up was presented by movie producers Karan Johar and Zoya Akhtar, with Akshay Kumar launching the show with a sonnet wrote by lyricist Manoj Muntashir, titled “Tumse Ho Nahi Payega.” It was trailed by Aamir and his executive spouse Kiran Rao, who said it was significant in current occasions to stretch out help to the destitute.

“Be that as it may, in particular, to not leave trust,” Aamir stated, encouraging individuals to give for the bleeding edge laborers. The couple at that point sang works of art, for example, “Aa Chalke Tujhe Main Leke Chalun” and “Jeena Isika Naam Hai”.

Shah Rukh shut the show with a tune formed by rapper Badshah and wrote by lyricist Saini. Titled “Sab Sahi Ho Jayega”, the tune is about the risks of being bolted up inside homes and the expectation that sometime the world will be coronavirus free.

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PM Modi, Virat Kohli, Gautam Gambhir pay homage to Handwara martyrs

Saluting the personnel, Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat said operations in Handwara highlighted determination of security forces to safeguard the lives of the people


Current Affairs : Indian cricket crew chief Virat Kohli and cricketer-turned-government official Gautam Gambhir have paid tributes to five security work force who lost their lives in an experience with fear based oppressors in North Kashmir’s Handwara locale a week ago.

“The individuals who remember their obligation in any conditions are genuine legends. Their penances must not be overlooked. I bow my head to the military staff and the cops who lost their lives at Handwara and genuinely send my sympathies to their families and wish them harmony.

Jai Hind,” Kohli said in a tweet on Sunday.

In the interim, Gambhir stated: “Who is a genuine saint? On-screen character? Sportsperson? Government official? No, solitary a warrior! Everlastingly and Always! Salute to their folks! Most intrepid spirits strolling on Earth!”

Who is a genuine legend?

Entertainer? Sportsperson? Government official?

No, solitary a SOLDIER! Everlastingly and Always!

Salute to their folks! Most intrepid spirits strolling on Earth!

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India protests Pakistan court’s order allowing polls in Gilgit-Baltistan

In a recent order, the Pakistan Supreme Court allowed the amendment to the Government of Gilgit-Baltistan Order of 2018 to conduct the general elections in the region

Current Affairs : India on Monday has passed on its dissent to Pakistan over their Supreme Court request permitting the lead of general decisions in Gilgit-Baltistan.

The Ministry of External Affairs said Pakistan was informed that whole Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, including zones of Gilgit and Baltistan, are a basic piece of India and that Islamabad ought to promptly clear the regions under its unlawful occupation, news office PTI announced.

In an ongoing request, the Pakistan Supreme Court permitted the change to the Government of Gilgit-Baltistan Order of 2018 to direct broad decisions in the locale.

“India demarched senior Pakistan negotiator and stopped a solid dissent to Pakistan against Supreme Court of Pakistan request on the purported ‘Gilgit-Baltistan’,” the MEA said in an announcement.

“It was unmistakably passed on that the whole Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, including the zones of Gilgit and Baltistan, are a fundamental piece of India by excellence of its completely lawful and irreversible promotion,” it said.

The MEA said the legislature of Pakistan or its legal executive has no locus standi on regions “unlawfully and coercively” involved by it.

“India totally rejects such activities and proceeded with endeavors to get material changes Pakistan involved territories of the Indian region of Jammu and Kashmir,” it said.

“Rather, Pakistan ought to quickly clear all regions under its unlawful occupation,” it included.

The MEA said Pakistan’s ongoing activities can neither stow away the “unlawful occupation” of parts of association regions of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh by it nor the “grave human rights infringement, abuse and disavowal of opportunity” to the individuals living in these regions for as long as seven decades.

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Railway board in a huddle as Congress offers to pay for travel of migrants

Sonia Gandhi said in a letter to the state units that every Pradesh Congress committee shall bear the cost of rail travel for every needy worker and migrant labourer

Current Affairs : After a choice by the Congress gathering to hold up under the expense of train travel by the transient specialists, the Center government is probably going to come out with a declaration making the movement on Shramik Special trains free for vagrant workers.

As per an official source near the turn of events, there are plans to make the excursion free for transient workers. On Monday, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said in a letter to the state units that each Pradesh Congress Committee will bear the expense of rail travel for each penniless specialist and transient worker. At present, workers are being charged sleeper class admissions and an extra Rs 50 for a pre-concluded source to goal venture.

Hitting hard at the administration’s choice to charge abandoned vagrant workers, Sonia Gandhi named the present emergency at standard with the segment of the nation. “Indeed, even today, lakhs of laborers and vagrant workers are moping in various pieces of the nation and wish to come back to their homes and families yet there is neither sufficient cash nor arrangement with the expectation of complimentary vehicle. Is especially upsetting that the Central Government and the Rail Ministry are charging them for train tickets in this hour of emergency,” she said.

Following the Congress choice, Rajya Sabha part and the BJP pioneer Subramanian Swamy tweeted that he had a word with the workplace of the Railways serve Piyush Goyal and the Center government will pay 85 percent of the vagrant passage and the staying 15 percent state governments will bear. “Vagrant work will go free. Service will explain with an official explanation,” he said.

At the point when gotten some information about this, a Railways official said that there is no official choice taken in such manner.

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Injunction against ‘Hasmukh’ would be death knell for satire: Netflix to HC

Dubey has contended that “statements (in the series) are highly disparaging, defamatory and bring disrepute to the law profession”

Current Affairs : Online media spilling stage Netflix has contradicted in the Delhi High Court a request looking for directive on communicate of its ‘Hasmukh’ web arrangement, saying any such request would be in opposition to the right to speak freely of discourse and articulation ensured under the Constitution.

Netflix has been controlled from airing its web arrangement Hasmukh for purportedly censuring the picture and notoriety of legal counselors

The supplication moved by advocate Ashutosh Dubey affirms that in scene 4 of the web arrangement, legal counselors have been alluded to as criminals, blackguards, goons and attackers.

The court had given notification to Netflix and the show’s makers and chief looking for their remain on the suit documented by attorney Ashutosh Dubey.

It likewise saved its request on Dubey’s application looking for between time remain on airing of the arrangement.

The main period of the show was composed by Nikkhil Advani, Vir Das, Nikhil Gonsalves, Neeraj Pandey, Amogh Ranadive and Suparn Verma.

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