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Economic Times | 02 Jul, 2023 | 08:26AM IST
France Riots Live News Updates: Mourners bury slain teen as Macron scraps trip; 322 arrested
France Riots Live News Updates: Hushed and visibly anguished, hundreds of mourners from France’s Islamic community formed a solemn procession from a mosque to a hillside cemetery on Saturday to bury a 17-year-old whose killing by police has triggered days of rioting and looting across the nation.
Underscoring the gravity of the crisis, President Emmanuel Macron scrapped an official trip to Germany after a fourth straight night of unrest across France. Officials said they were again deploying 45,000 police to the streets nationwide in an effort to head off a fifth night of violence.
Underscoring the gravity of the crisis, President Emmanuel Macron scrapped an official trip to Germany after a fourth straight night of unrest across France. Officials said they were again deploying 45,000 police to the streets nationwide in an effort to head off a fifth night of violence.
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Delhi: Anti-encroachment drive underway by PWD in Bhajanpura area
Israeli warplanes target Syrian air defence battery
Israeli warplanes targeted a Syrian air defence battery from which an anti-aircraft missile was launched towards Israel, an Israeli military spokesman said early on Sunday.The warplanes also attacked other targets in the area, while no casualties were reported from the Syrian missile, said the spokesman, Avichay Adraee.
I have requested CM Eknath Shinde to conduct a detailed investigation in Sushant Singh Rajput and Disha Salian's murder case...And if my name comes up in it (involvement in the murder) I am ready to leave politics
- Rahul Kanal, Yuva Sena leader and close aide of Uddhav Thackeray faction MLA Aaditya Thackeray
Cyberattack: Dublin airport staff's pay and benefits compromised
The pay and benefits details of nearly 2,000 staff members of DAA, which operates Ireland's Dublin airport, were compromised due to a recent cyberattack on professional service provider Aon, the Sunday Times reported.DAA can confirm that as a result of a recent cyberattack on Aon, a third-party provider, data relating to some employees’ pay and benefits was compromised, the report quoted DAA's spokesperson as saying.
Russia launches first overnight drone attack on Kyiv in 12 days
Russia launched an overnight drone attack on Kyiv after a 12-day break, a Ukrainian military official said on Sunday, with air defence systems preliminarily destroying all targets on their approach.
Rath Yatra concludes
Odisha: The 12-day Rath Yatra concludes with the return of the deities to the Srimandir at Niladri Bije in Puri
On hair oil, toothpaste, soaps, perfumes, and detergents, the average Pre-GST tax burden was almost 28%, which was brought down to 18% under GST. Average pre-GST taxation on common-use electrical items such as mixer grinders, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, TV (up to 27 inches), and washing machines was around 31.5%, which came down to 12% under GST
- Nirmala Sitharaman
Twitter restricts number of posts users can read
Elon Musk announced Saturday that Twitter would temporarily restrict how many tweets users could read per day, in a move meant to tamp down on the use of the site's data by artificial intelligence companies.The platform is limiting verified accounts to reading 6,000 tweets a day. Non-verified users -- the free accounts that make up the majority of users -- are limited to reading 600 tweets per day.New unverified accounts would be limited to 300 tweets.
Tap water reaches 1.33 crore rural families in UP
The Har Ghar Jal Yojana of the Jal Jeevan Mission in Uttar Pradesh has reached a significant milestone by surpassing the 50 per cent mark in providing clean tap water to rural households, Uttar Pradesh government said on Saturday.The Yogi government has provided water to a total of 1,33,25,752 rural families in Uttar Pradesh.
