The clarification came after Trump said that he spoke to Modi over India’s ongoing border row with China in Eastern Ladakh
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PM Modi not in ‘good mood’ over border row with China: Donald Trump
Speaking with the reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on Thursday, Trump said a “big conflict” was going on between India and China
Current Affairs : Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Thursday said that it is beyond the realm of imagination to expect to have the National Games 2020 in October in the state due to Covid-19.
“It is beyond the realm of imagination to expect to have the National Games 2020 in October due to Covid-19. Games that are booked to be held in October this year would need to be deferred uncertainly. The state government would impart to the Union Sports Ministry to pass on to the Indian Olympic Association about Goa’s reluctance to have the occasion in the not so distant future and to delay the occasion considering the viral pandemic,” Sawant told ANI.
He said that Goa is 100 percent prepared to have the national games.
“We are glad to be hosts of the national occasion but since of the Covid-19 pandemic, we need to delay it. In spite of the fact that Goa is a green zone, members from everywhere throughout the nation will be partaking in the National Games,” Sawant expressed.
Inquired as to whether the Goa government would suggest an elective date for the Games to be held, Sawant stated, “We can’t settle on a date right now in light of the fact that the Covid-19 circumstance is liquid.
Impossible to host National Games in October due to Covid-19: Goa CM Sawant
“State govt would communicate to the Sports Ministry to convey to the Indian Olympic Association about Goa’s unwillingness to host the event and to postpone it in light of Covid-19,” Sawant said
Current Affairs : Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Thursday said that it is beyond the realm of imagination to expect to have the National Games 2020 in October in the state due to Covid-19.
“It is beyond the realm of imagination to expect to have the National Games 2020 in October due to Covid-19. Games that are booked to be held in October this year would need to be deferred uncertainly. The state government would impart to the Union Sports Ministry to pass on to the Indian Olympic Association about Goa’s reluctance to have the occasion in the not so distant future and to delay the occasion considering the viral pandemic,” Sawant told ANI.
He said that Goa is 100 percent prepared to have the national games.
“We are glad to be hosts of the national occasion but since of the Covid-19 pandemic, we need to delay it. In spite of the fact that Goa is a green zone, members from everywhere throughout the nation will be partaking in the National Games,” Sawant expressed.
Inquired as to whether the Goa government would suggest an elective date for the Games to be held, Sawant stated, “We can’t settle on a date right now in light of the fact that the Covid-19 circumstance is liquid.
‘Muscular’ Chinese policy to have impact on ties with India: US diplomat
World is finally recognising that Beijing is “pushing” a form of “problematic” governance, he says
Current Affairs : China’s new “solid” arrangement will affect its binds with India and different countries, a senior US negotiator has stated, underlining that the world is at long last perceiving that Beijing is “pushing” a type of “risky” administration.
The US is as of now engaged with a strained confrontation with China on the issue of exchange, the sources of the novel coronavirus pandemic, Beijing’s new security crackdown in Hong Kong and the socialist monster’s forceful military moves in the contested South China Sea.
The moves China is making “will have sway, and not simply in – over the Straits”, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs David Stilwell told correspondents at a news gathering on Wednesday.
“It will have sway in Southeast Asia, it will have sway with its neighbor India, and others. This recently solid and forceful methodology is going to make the resistance priest’s activity much harder,” he said.
Stiwell was reacting to an inquiry on the announcement made by the Chinese Defense Minister General Wei Fenghe throughout the end of the week that the Sino-US vital showdown has entered “a time of high hazard” and “we should reinforce our battling soul… what’s more, utilize battling to advance soundness”.
Fenghe’s comments came in the midst of rising strains among China and the US, and souring ties among Beijing and Taipei.
Internet services across Jammu & Kashmir restricted to 2G till June 17
Earlier, 2G mobile internet services were restored in Srinagar after they were snapped on May 19 due to a gunfight in Nawa Kadal area
Current Affairs : The Jammu and Kashmir organization educated that web access over the Union Territory with web speed limited to 2G just and web network with Mac-restricting will proceed till June 17.
“The headings to stay in power except if changed before,” the organization expressed.
Prior, 2G versatile internet providers were reestablished in Srinagar after they were snapped on May 19 because of a gunfight in Nawa Kadal territory of old Srinagar city.
Hizbul Mujahideen psychological oppressor Junaid Ashraf Khan, child of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat administrator Mohammed Ashraf Khan, was among the two fear based oppressors murdered in the experience with security powers at Nawa Kadal.
Monsoon likely to hit Kerala on June 1, heatwave to recede over north India
The maximum temperatures are likely to recede from Thursday in north India, which is reeling under a severe heatwave, the India Meteorological Department said
Current Affairs : The southwest storm is required to arrive at the Kerala coast around June 1, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Thursday.
The IMD changed its underlying estimate, which had anticipated rainstorm was probably going to be postponed by seven days because of Cyclone Amphan.
“With the reinforcing of westerlies and increment in convective mists, the Southwest Monsoon has additionally progressed into certain pieces of the Maldives-Comorin zone, some more pieces of south Bay of Bengal, remaining pieces of Andaman Sea and Andaman and Nicobar Islands,” the IMD said in a notice.
The rainstorm is relied upon to progress in some more pieces of the Maldives-Comorin region during the following 48 hours. “Conditions are probably going to get positive from June 1 for the beginning of Southwest Monsoon over Kerala,” it included.
The most extreme temperatures are probably going to retreat from Thursday in north India, which is reeling under a serious heatwave, the India Meteorological Department said. The temperatures north and focal India have taken off more than 47 degrees Celsius at a couple of spots for as long as four-five days.
Who is feeding migrant workers, paying for their travel, SC asks govt
9.1 million migrant workers taken to their home states till Wednesday during a nationwide lockdown, says government.
Current Affairs : The Supreme Court on Thursday requested that the administration clarify how the a large number of vagrant specialists being shipped to their home states are being taken care of and who is to paying for their movement.
A seat of Justices Ashok Bhushan, S K Kaul and M R Shah asked Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who contended for the administration, said laborers ought not need to pay for their excursions back home.
Mehta presented a fundamental report, which said 91 lakh vagrant specialists had taken to their states till Wednesday during an across the country lockdown to contain the coronavirus. Upwards of 3,700 exceptional trains conveyed laborers between May 1-27, said the report.
“What is the typical time? In the event that a transient is distinguished, there must be some assurance that he will be moved out inside multi week or ten days all things considered? What is that time? There had been occasions where one state sends vagrants yet at the fringe another state says
we are not tolerating the vagrants. We need an approach on this,” the court told Mehta.
Shramik special trains face heat over on-board deaths, food, water issues
The Supreme Court on Thursday said food and water should be provided to the passengers on Shramik Special trains by the Indian Railways
Current Affairs : Shramik unique trains should be a blessing to workers from the Narendra Modi government on May Day, for bringing home individuals, who were left abandoned during the lockdown. In any case, the 9 on-board passings in the course of recent days, supposedly because of an absence of food and water and long travel times, have raised questions not just on the proficiency of railroad traffic the executives yet in addition on whether these trains tended to the human disaster that unfurled during the national lockdown, set up since March 25.
The Supreme Court on Thursday said food and water ought to be given to the travelers on Shramik Special trains by the Indian Railways while the states ought to give free vehicle to the station and food at the hour of boarding.
Recordings indicating voyagers griping about absence of food and water and individuals plundering railroad slows down have circulated around the web via web-based networking media. Specialists showed that the Indian Railways, which works more than 12,000 traveler prepares a day, is presently attempting to work 250 Shramik Specials daily.
Upwards of 9 individuals have been discovered dead since Monday on various Shramik Special trains making a beeline for Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. The video of a dead lady and her baby attempting to wake her up welcomed sharp responses. The national transporter ascribed the passings to prior wellbeing conditions and mature age. Chandan Kumar from work rights association Working People’s Charter, in any case, claimed, “It is unadulterated blunder with respect to Indian Railways. Trains bound for Uttar Pradesh is coming to Odisha. In a range of two months, it shows up the Railways have gotten outdated as transients were not being furnished with water and food.”
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Nearly 2.3 mn in quarantine, Maharashtra has the highest: Govt estimates
Maharashtra has the highest number of people in quarantine facilities — 602,000 — followed by Gujarat, which has kept a total of 442,000 lakh people in quarantine centres
Current Affairs : Almost 2.3 million individuals, who include moved inside the nation or showed up from global goals during the continuous across the country lockdown because of the COVID-19 pandemic, are right now in isolate offices organized by states and association domains.
While larger part of the state governments and association domain organizations have made in any event seven days’ isolate obligatory for anybody showing up in their purview, a couple of them have selected home isolate for those arriving at their regulatory cutoff points.
As per an official gauge, as on May 26, a sum of 2.28 million individuals were in isolate offices organized by various states and association domains – practically twofold from 12 days prior (May 14) when the individuals put under isolate were 1.19 million, an administration official told PTI.
Maharashtra has the most elevated number of individuals in isolate offices – 602,000 – trailed by Gujarat, which has kept a sum of 442,000 lakh individuals in isolate focuses.
Out and out, 290,000 individuals were in isolate in Maharashtra and 200,000 in Gujarat as on May 14.
As indicated by the legislature, during the lockdown, till Wednesday, an aggregate of 9.1 million transient workers were shipped via prepares and transports from different spots to various goals the nation over.Continue Reading
States can’t charge fare from migrant workers, must provide food, says SC
The bench, also comprising Justices S K Kaul and M R Shah, directed that states oversee the registration of migrant workers and ensure that they are made to board the train or bus at the earliest
Current Affairs : The Supreme Court Thursday requested that no toll for movement either via train or transport be charged from the vagrant specialists abandoned the nation over and they be given food and water.
The zenith court, which passed break headings, said every single vagrant specialist who are abandoned at different spots will be given food by concerned states and Union Territories (UTs) at places which will be announced and informed to them for the period they are trusting that their turn will board a train or a transport.
A seat headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan said that the starting state will give dinners and water at the station and during the excursion while the Railways would give the equivalent to the transient laborers.
It said that food and water be likewise given to them to go in transports.
The seat, likewise involving Justices S K Kaul and M R Shah, coordinated that states supervise the enlistment of vagrant specialists and guarantee that they are made to board the train or transport at the most punctual.
The top court said that total data in such manner ought to be exposed to all concerned.
The court saw that it is by and by worried about the torments and trouble looked by the transients laborers who are attempting to get to their local spots.
It said however there is no uncertainty that concerned state governments and UTs are making strides, a few breaches have been given during the time spent enlistment, transportation and giving food water to the transients.
Aditi Mehta 