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One Liner
- Covid-19, 24-hour recap: Pakistan reported 2,545 cases and 47 deaths in 24 hours. Pakistan also conducted 48,910 tests in the span of 24 hours.
- Ring Road Scam: Former Rawalpindi Commissioner Arrested. Former Rawalpindi commissioner Captian (retd) Muhammad Mahmood and land requisition officer Wasim Tabish have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the Ring Road scam.
- EU court says hijab can be banned at work under certain conditions. BERLIN: Companies may ban Muslim employees from wearing a headscarf under certain conditions, the European Union’s (EU) top court said on Thursday in a ruling on two cases brought by women in Germany who were suspended from their jobs for wearing one.
- DR Congo reports a drop in virus cases but jab shortage. Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Wednesday they had run out of AstraZeneca vaccines, but also reported the numbers of new infections and deaths from Covid-19 were beginning to drop.
- Indian Air Force gets fully prepared in view of possible threats from China. The Indian Air Force on the Indo-China border in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi is prepared to deal with the possible threat from China. A Chinook helicopter has been launched in the field for surveillance in the area around the border.
- The real problem with US intelligence editing is disabled and blind people for its diversity report? It’s still not diverse enough. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has been mocked for using images on the cover of its annual report that was clearly Photoshopped.
- US Army long-range strike gives China a taste of its own medicine. In response to China’s increasingly powerful blue-water navy and deployment of long-range “carrier killer” anti-ship ballistic missiles.
- Latest Gold Rate in Pakistan today (15, July 2021) is Rs.93,620 per 10 grams, and the rate of Gold is Rs.109,200 per tola (24k Gold) in Pakistan today.
- China begins the construction of the world’s 1st commercial small modular reactor ‘LingLong One’ at the Changjiang Nuclear Power Plant in the country’s Hainan Province.Also called the ACP100, it was given a green signal by the International Atomic Energy Agency in 2016. The ACP100 comes with a generation capacity of 125,000 kilowatt-hours.
- Pakistan captain Babar Azam with the century he scored against England became the fastest batsman to notch up 14 ODI centuries in terms of innings, surpassing the likes of Hashim Amla (84), Indian captain Virat Kohli (103), and Australian batsman David Warner (98). He reached his 14th ton in his 81st ODI innings.
Spotlight by The NewsRun
1. COVID-19 IN PAKISTAN
- 24-hour recap: Pakistan reported 2,545 cases and 47 deaths in 24 hours. Pakistan also conducted 48,910 tests in the span of 24 hours (P.S. this data was last updated on July 15 at 7:00 am).
2. Cuba offers vaccine production in Pakistan:
- While Pakistan has been receiving millions of foreign vaccine doses from China, Russia and the U.S. over the past few months, Cuba recently offered to set up a vaccine production centre in Pakistan for both exports and domestic use. More than 21 million total doses have been administered in Pakistan, according to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC). For the first time since vaccination efforts have been underway in Pakistan, more than half a million doses were administered Tuesday, July 13, according to a tweet by NCOC head Asad Umar.
3. Sindh reimposes ban on indoor dining, activities as COVID-19 cases surge:
- From Thursday, July 15 onwards the Sindh government has reimposed a ban on indoor dining, gyms, amusement/water parks, swimming pools and cinemas. Classes for grades 1 to 8 will be suspended Saturday onward, while exams for grades 9 and above will continue as scheduled. The positivity rate in Sindh has surged to 7.4 percent and 17.11 percent in Karachi as of July 13. “Inland tourism” such as visiting beaches and lakes has also been curbed. The restrictions will last till July 31. 356 cases of COVID-19 variants have surfaced in Sindh as of July 12, with more than 40 cases of the highly contagious Delta variant emerging in Karachi in July so far.
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