144th Day Of Lockdown

Total Cases

2,563,048

61,252

Recovered

1,840,179

54,974

Deaths

49,597

835

Maharashtra57273440144219427 Tamil Nadu3321052722515641 Andhra Pradesh2818171911172562 Karnataka2111081281823718 Delhi1519281351084178 Uttar Pradesh140775887862280 West Bengal98459671202059 Telangana9025966196684 Bihar8274154139450 Gujarat71064542382652 Assam5883842326145 Rajasthan5249738235789 Odisha4592731785321 Haryana4163534781483 Madhya Pradesh3902529020996 Kerala3811424922127 Jammu and Kashmir2489717003472 Punjab2390315319586 Jharkhand185168998177 Chhatisgarh12148880996 Uttarakhand96326134125 Goa871259575 Tripura6161417641 Puducherry5382320187 Manipur3752204411 Himachal Pradesh3371218114 Nagaland30119738 Arunachal Pradesh223115923 Chandigarh1595100425 Meghalaya11154986 Sikkim9105101 Mizoram6203230

Top Stories

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation during the 74th Independence Day celebrations, at Red Fort in New Delhi, Saturday. (PTI)
World

PM Modi makes a passionate pitch for aatmanirbhar India in Independence Day address

DC CORRESPONDANT | PTI
In his seventh straight Independence Day speech from the ramparts of Red Fort, Modi made a host of new announcements
RAF and police personnel during a flag march in the riot-hit area after a mob went on a rampage on Tuesday over a social media post, allegedly posted by a Congress MLA's relative, in Bengaluru. (PTI)
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Bengaluru riot case turns political: Congress accuses BJP of framing its corporators

DC CORRESPONDANT | PTI
Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai and KPCC President DK Shivakumar indulge in a war of words
Former India captain MS Dhoni. (PTI)
World

Ex-skipper MS Dhoni finishes off in style with an Instagram video

DC CORRESPONDANT | PTI
Dhoni, who began as a swashbuckling and hard-hitting batsman, later became the mainstay of Indian middle-order for his consistent run making.
Labourers from Uttar Pradesh carrying their belongings arrive at Anand Vihar Bus Terminal for local travel, during Unlock 3.0, in New Delhi, Saturday, Aug 8, 2020. Workers from various states have returned to their workplace to resume working amid the coronavirus pandemic. (PTI)

On Independence Day, India crosses 25 lakh-mark in coronavirus cases
Srinagar: Artists wearing face masks perform during the 74th Independence Day celebrations, at Sher-i-Kashmir Cricket Stadium, in Srinagar, Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020. (PTI)

CRPF says security forces enjoying good synergy, hopeful of maintaining peace in J-K
Former president Pranab Mukherjee. (PTI)

No change in Pranab Mukherjee's health condition as former president battles for life
According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare's (MoHFW)'s new guidelines issued on August 3, people flying into India can seek exemption from institutional quarantine. AFP Photo

In Tamil Nadu, if you fly back from abroad, you go to quarantine hotel. Period.
Representational image.

Two months after Galwan Valley clash, ITBP recommends 21 names for gallantry awards
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palanisamy (R) and Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam (L). (ANI)

Posters hailing O Panneerselvam as the 'only CM of Tamil Nadu' prop up across Theni
Playback singer SP Balasubrahmanyam.

SP Balasubrahmanyam continues to be on life support but is stable: Hospital
-Lt Colonel Krishan Singh Rawat, Major Anil Urs and Havildar Alok Kumar Dubey.

Three Indian Army personnel awarded Shaurya Chakra for J-K counter-terror operations
Hyderabad US consulate (PTI)

US Embassy, Consulates to process visa applications of Indian students from Monday
Red Fort decked up for Independence Day. (PTI)

Amid COVID-19 pandemic, India marks a socially distanced Independence Day at Red Fort
Representational image. (PTI)

As Karnataka struggles with COVID-19 beds, private hospitals launch innovative plans
An employee shows a new vaccine at the Nikolai Gamaleya National Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow, Russia. (AP)

Russian doctors are wary of rapidly approved COVID-19 vaccine
Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi takes the COVID-19 swab test in Hyderabad. (PTI)

Telangana coronavirus surge continues as case tally crosses 90K
US President Donald Trump walks over to speak with the press after arriving on Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown. (AP)

Kamala ‘is of Indian heritage. I have more Indians than she has’, says Trump
PM Narendra Modi (AFP)

PM Modi: Jammu and Kashmir to soon go for polls, delimitation process underway
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Columns

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | India’s mood is sombre: Is Modi government out of sync?
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Independence Day has also been a grim occasion for many of those who had to leave behind everything they had
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Farrukh Dhondy | Post Channel crossing ‘solution', is France laughing at Priti Patel?
Farrukh Dhondy
Having fought for and achieved Brexit, Clueless has no recourse to the EU rules that govern the arrival and accommodation of asylum seekers
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Dilli Ka Babu | Cops slug it out to the beat of Bihar poll drum
Dilip Cherian
The unprecedented face-off between Bihar Police and Mumbai Police on the investigation of the suicide has far reaching consequences
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Anand K Sahay | Why Ayodhya was not like battle for freedom
Anand K Sahay
The Kashmir-to-Ayodhya common template was clearly intended to overtly demonstrate the suppression of Muslim aspirations in India
Anand K Sahay

South

Entertainment

Kareena will now have to complete her shoot at the earliest

Kareena's pregnancy sets off reworking of film schedules
Ayushmann Khurrana

Ayushmann welcomes Supreme Court's verdict
John Abraham is giving his producer Anand Pandit a hard time in finding the right script

After a hatrick hit, John Abraham looks for the next blockbuster
“Sarah Cooper: Everything’s Fine” will be released this fall and feature a variety of satirical political sketches and other vignettes as well as famous guests. (Photo | Netflix via AP)

Sarah Cooper gets her own Netflix show, riding on viral Trump impersonations
Harriet wants to be a writer, and in order to be a good writer she needs to know everything, and in order to know everything, she has to be a spy.

Children’s classic ‘Harriet the Spy’ now an animated series on Apple TV Plus
Vishnu Induri

Film on CBN-YSR friendship lands in controversy

Sports

The Williams sisters during a tennis match (file AP photo)

Serena-Venus match heralds return of tennis

India hockey captain among five to test COVID-19 positive in camp. (PTI Photo)

Hockey captain Manpreet Singh, four others test COVID-19 positive

The Indian Premier League trophy.

IPL 2020 is all set to be held in UAE; BCCI to seek government clearance

GK Menon. (Twitter)

GK Menon, veteran sports scribe and mentor to many Mumbai cricketers, is no more

Lifestyle

Parents of pre-schoolers and kindergarteners are especially a harried lot as their children are too young to operate technology

The travails of schooling online amid a pandemic

Commodore BK Ahluwalia with wife Anju Ahluwalia

India’s Midnight’s Children

Eminent Urdu poet and lyricist Rahat Indori

Legendary Urdu poet Rahat Indori dies hours after testing positive for coronavirus

As the COVID-19 pandemic drags on, it looks like robots are indeed here to replace humans

The rise of robots in the hospitality sector

Technology

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology published a programme that outlines incentives that focus on electronics manufacturing (of which semiconductors are a subset). However, none of the above has translated into a significant shift that puts India at a comparative advantage when it comes to semiconductor manufacturing. (Photo | Pixabay - Mika Mamy)

Tech This Week | Forget TikTok, what India must focus on is semiconductors
Facebook said it would not collect any fees from paid online events that educators, entertainers, or others can host due to a fresh addition to the platform, but that Apple declined to back off from its standard share of transactions which are handled through the App Store. (Photo | AFP)

Apple rigid over App Store commission, says Facebook
Like other tech giants including Google, Facebook and Apple, Amazon is the target of government investigations in places such as the United States and Europe, accused of dominating the markets and blocking competition. (Photo | AFP)

Amazon faces investigation in Canada over monopolistic actions
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Vijay

Vijay accepts Mahesh Babu’s ‘Go Green’ challenge
Although directors like V. V. Vinayak, Puri Jagannadh, Gunasekhar, Teja, Krishna Vamsi and others have ruled the roost for many years with numerous blockbusters, few of them are able to draw audiences to the theatres on the strength of their names alone now

The travails of being a 50-plus director in Tollywood
Still from 'Vinayakudu'

Vinayakudu goes to Bollywood
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Puunam Khaur roots for handlooms and weavers
Mahesh Babu

A new record in greetings for Mahesh Babu
While making a film in Bollywood is itself a different ball game, what does it take for a film to succeed at the Hindi box office?

Tollywood filmmakers look North

World

The materials were transported by an IAF C-17 transport aircraft that landed in Beirut earlier in the day on Friday.(Photo: MEAIndia/Twitter)

India sends humanitarian aid to Lebanon

A woman shouts as she holds a Belarus flag during a protest rally against police violence at recent rallies of opposition supporters, who accuse strongman Alexander Lukashenko of falsifying the polls in the presidential election, in central Minsk. (AFP)

Several thousand gather as Belarus braces for fresh protests

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden's running mate Senator Kamala Harris. (AP)

Australian newspaper condemned as racist over Kamala Harris cartoon

Firefighters carry the coffin of their comrade Ralph Malachi, who was killed in the monster explosion at the port of Beirut and whose remains were recently found and identified, draped in the Lebanese national flag, during a funerary ceremony at the civil defence headquarters in the Karantina (La Quarantaine or Quarantina) neighbourhood of the capital just by the ravaged port. (AFP)

UN launches $565 million appeal for Beirut’s blast victims

Business

Sensex tanks 433 pts; Nifty gives up 11,200 level. (PTI Photo)

Sensex slips 433 points, Nifty ends below 11,200; Banks, auto stocks drag

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that a total amount sanctioned under the 100 per cent Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme. (PTI Photo)

Banks sanctioned Rs 1.43 lakh crore loans under credit guarantee scheme: FM Nirmala

India's July retail inflation dims chances of rate cut. (AFP Photo)

Retail inflation inches up to nearly 7% in July on higher food prices

Railways has stopped running of regular trains for months now ever since the start of pandemic

In a first, Railways refund exceeds earning from passengers

Science

Hyderabad-based startup Skyroot Aerospace successfully tested an upper-stage rocket engine (Photo- Skyroot Facebook)

Hyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace test-fires upper stage rocket engine
The scientists next plan to work with chemists and pharmacologists to design a new drug that could bind to the spike protein. (Representational Image: AP)

Scientists discover new vulnerability that helps coronavirus to enter host cells
Scientsts at CCMB see some hope in the way the virus has been mutating as time passes. (Representational image: AFP)

SARS Cov-2 original strain slowly disappearing
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Opinion

Dinghies, believed to have been used by migrants crossing the Channel, are towed by the harbour pilot in the port of Dover, on the south-east coast of England. AFP Photo

Farrukh Dhondy | Post Channel crossing ‘solution', is France laughing at Priti Patel?
- Israel and the UAE agreed to normalise relations today in a landmark US-brokered deal under which the Jewish state agreed to halt further annexation of Palestinian territory. AP Photo

DC Edit | Green shoots of peace in Israel-UAE accord
Congress spokesperson Rajiv Tyagi

DC Edit | Rajiv Tyagi's death triggers concern over civility in TV debates
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Schoolchildren attend a class at their open-air school situated on top of a mountain in Doodhpathri, Kashmir. AFP Photo

Mutilation of J&K: Education is a casualty in the year of abrogation

The communication blockade imposed on Kashmir prior to the abrogation of Article 370 has made the media's task infinitely more difficult. (Representational image: AFP)

Mutilation of J&K: Kashmir's journalists refuse to be stenographers

Reports say that in just a year since the abrogation of Article 370 and 35A, thousands of people have been given domicile status in Jammu and Kashmir. (DC Photo: Habib Naqash)

​Mutilation of J&K: A year of legal upheaval and the fear of demographic change

The shared statistics, which seem to determine who can travel from where to where, give a new meaning or urgency to the concept of ‘globalisation’. AP Photo

Farrukh Dhondy | Boris Johnson's obesity challenge and ‘globalisation’ in COVID times

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