“Let them eat cake” is what the French Queen Mary Antoinnette supposedly said when her people were hungry (there is no evidence to this). The Bombay High Court has now supplied us with another slogan: Let them work (paraphrased). Brazilians are on the streets, angry over their government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and corruption that seems to have plagued it.
CORONAVIRUS NEWS
💉 Hols Here: Europe is racing to vaccinate as many people as it can with the start of the summer holidays. Countries are offering free groceries, entertainment vouchers and other prizes.
🇧🇷 Jair laid bare: The Brazil Supreme Court has ordered an investigation into President Jair Bolsonaro for alleged inaction in the Covid-19 crisis. This includes the procurement of Covaxin, which has been plagued by corruption.
🇳🇵🇨🇳 Look to China: Nepal is ordering 4mn doses of China’s Sinopharm vaccine.
INDIA NEWS
🔎🛩️Probing Planes: France will be investigating the Rs 59,000-crore Rafale deal with India over allegations of corruption. This follows a series of investigations by news website Mediapart. The Congress has renewed its demand for a joint parliamentary panel probe.
“They (homeless persons) should also work for the country. Everyone is working. Everything cannot be provided by the state. You (petitioner) are just increasing the population of this section of the society .”
Bombay High Court
👨 New CM: Pushkar Singh Dhami will be the next and, at 45, the youngest chief minister of Uttarakhand.
🤝 Building Bridges: The Congress may remove Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury as leader of the party in the Lok Sabha. Some see this as a possible “warming up” of the party and the TMC to take on the BJP. Chowdhury has been an ardent critic of Mamata Banerjee and the G23 Congress people who had been demanding changes in the party.
🥩 Non-Veg: A Dehradun school has been booked for “promoting hatred among groups” for issuing a tender for supply of halal meat. The Bajrang Dal claimed this was the first step to conversion. The school has apologised.
🔎 Probe on: A Karnataka Special Court has ordered an investigation into a corruption case that Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa was named in. The case dates back to 2006 when he was deputy chief minister and it was alleged that he got money in return for denotifying 434 acres.
WORLD NEWS
🇻🇦 Unholy: Vatican judge indicted 10 people, including a cardinal, in a $415 mn fraud case.
😨Climate Kills: Extreme heat in the Pacific NorthWest has killed at least 800 people. Lightning triggered at least 130 wildfires in Canada.
😰 Apathy Kills: 43 people died off the coast of Tunisia. They were trying to reach Europe when their boat from Libya capsized after engine failure.
BUSINESS/ECONOMY
👐 New Rules: IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has commended Google and Facebook for releasing their compliance reports as per the new IT rules. Meanwhile, Amazon and Tata have told the government that the new rules on e-commerce will negatively affect business.
👍 Go ahead: US lawmakers from both major parties have encouraged the Federal Trade Commission to go ahead with an antitrust case against Facebook. This comes days after a federal judge throughout an earlier case saying that the state had failed to give evidence of a monopoly and that the anti-competition cases were too old.
NEWS OF YESTERDAY
The Statue of Liberty was presented to the United States by the French in Paris on this day in 1884
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