News Highlights: Mohan Bhagwat calls for expansion of RSS

A memorandum of understanding for the Rs 700 crore project was signed on Thursday.

The project is expected to generate up to 10,000 jobs.TCS is setting up the Innovation Park on 36.84 acres of land at KINFRA Electronics Manufacturing Cluster at Kakkanad in Kochi. The first phase of the project is expected to be operational by 2023, said government sources.

. Manchester United's full-year loss widened as pandemic-induced lockdowns hammered matchday sales and commercial revenue, the footballclub said, while not setting financial targets for the year due to continuing uncertainty.

. Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Friday demanded immediate scrapping of the Centre's new farm laws, calling for detailed discussions with farmers to find a way forward.

. China's President Xi Jinping said on Friday that member nations of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) should help drive a smooth transition in Afghanistan, according to Chinese state media.

SCO member states should guide Afghanistan to develop an inclusive political structure and follow moderate internal and external policies, Xi said.

Xi was addressing a meeting of the heads of state of the SCO in Tajikistan via video link. ( Reuters )

. Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar told ANI that all shops in Pune city, cantonment and rural areas will be shut on September 19on the occasion of Ganesh Visarjan. Restaurants and hotels will remain open, essential services will be exempted.

. Delhi government has asked all private construction sites to follow its 14-point guidelines to prevent dust pollution: Gopal Rai said

. Supreme Court has allowed Kerala government to hold offline Class 11 exams. The state government has assuredthe top court that all Covid-19 precautions will be taken, according to news reports.

. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday held a "useful discussion" with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on contemporary issues, including Afghanistan and shared perspectives on global affairs with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, as he held separate informal meetings with the two leaders here.

Jaishankar met the two leaders in the Tajik capital here on the sidelines of a key summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on the situation in Afghanistan after its takeover by the Taliban last month.

"Always good to meet Russian FM Sergey Lavrov. A useful discussion on contemporary issues, including Afghanistan, before the commencement of the SCO Summit," Jaishankar tweeted after the informal meeting. ( PTI )

. The crucial meeting of the GST Council to decide on extending tax concession to 11 Covid-19 drugs and review tax rates of over 4-dozen items, like oncology medicine and coconut oil, began here on Friday.

The 45th meeting of the GST Council, chaired by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and comprising state finance ministers, is the first physical meeting since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. The last such meeting took place 20 months ago on December 18, 2019.

Since then the council has been meeting via video-conferencing.

Friday's meeting does not have the provision of video conferencing and almost all state finance ministers, except Gujarat, are attending the meeting. ( PTI )

. This year we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of SCO. I welcome Iran as a new member country of the SCO. I also welcome the three new dialogue partners — Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Qatar: PM Modi in SCO address

. PM Narendra Modi is addressing the first SCO meet after Taliban takeover, virtually.

PM Modi said radicalisation is the biggest threat to peace and security, adding that we cannot deviate from the path of moderation.

. A free Covid-19 Mega Vaccination Campaign was organised in collaboration with BBMP on the occasion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's birthday, at T Dasarahalli, in Bengaluru on Friday. Credit: Photo/ B H Shivakumar

. Union Minister Piyush Goyal participated in a two-day-long G20 Sherpas’ meeting on September 15-16, virtually. The agenda of the meeting was to discuss and exchange views on the Draft Rome Declaration, which would be adopted by G20 Leaders at the Rome Summit on 30-31 October 2021, the MEA stated.

. Chardham Yatra to start from September 18, says Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami.

. India reports 34,403 new Covid cases and 37,950 recoveries in the last 24 hours, as per Union Health Ministr. Active cases stand at 3,39,056 and total recoveries are at3,25,98,424.

. Vehicular movement has been affected at Jhandewalan-Panchkuian road ahead of a protest led by Shiromali Akali Dal (SAD).

. Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai honoured Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on the occasion of Kalyana Karnataka Utsav in Kalaburagi on Friday

. Jammu and Kashmir: In a joint search operation, police and Army have recovered arms and ammunition including four pistols at Telangam village in Pulwama district, reported ANI .

. Mexican soldiers and police killed 9 suspected gunmen in shootouts near the USborder Thursday.

The government of the northern border state of Coahuila said state police officers came under fire while patrolling a dirt road southwest of the border city of Nuevo Laredo. ( Reuters )

. The Delhi Police tweeted that the Jharoda Kalan border has been closed with barricadesin view of farmers' protest.

. El Salvador's Court of Accounts, which oversees its public resources, will investigate a complaint about the government's bitcoin purchases and the construction of kiosks for cryptocurrency ATMs, according to a document seen by Reuters .

El Salvador this month became the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, a move championed by the country's popular President Nayib Bukele.

The government has also launched a digital wallet, Chivo, which is linked to newly-built cryptocurrency cash machines that allow users to withdraw physical money from their digital bitcoin holdings.

. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government in New Delhi has been in touch with the new Taliban government in Kabul after a citizen of India was kidnapped in the capital city of Afghanistan.

. Dismissed police officer Sachin Vaze has alleged in his statement to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) that former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh had asked him to collect money from bar and hotel owners, and used to give instructions in high-profile investigations.

. The BJP is set to launch a mega 20-day public outreach from Friday on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 71st birthday and it will continue till October 7 to also commemorate his 20 years in public life, including as Gujarat chief minister.

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