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News Headlines-11/09/21

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1.The US National Security Council (NSC) on Thursday confirmed that the chartered Qatar Airways flight from Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA) has successfully landed in Qatar.The flight has carried US citizens and lawful permanent residents from Afghanistan, which has been seized by the Taliban to Qatar.-dnaindia.com

2.America’s China policy has resulted in “serious difficulties” in bilateral ties and goes against the core interests of the two countries and the common interests of the world, Chinese President Xi Jinping told US counterpart Joe Biden in a rare telephone call on Friday.-hindustantimes.com

3.Residents from India, Pakistan and 13 other countries, who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 with a jab approved by the World Health Organisation (WHO), will be able to return to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from Monday.-livemint.com

4.President Ram Nath Kovind will lay foundation stones for Uttar Pradesh National Law University and new building complex of Allahabad High Court on Saturday.-dnaindia.com

5.Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Saturday inaugurate Sardardham Bhavan in Ahmedabad, which will provide hostel facility to girls and boys from rural areas who aspire for a better job. Developed by Patidar Samaj, the complex promises to provide training, boarding and lodging facilities to all such students "at reasonable rate".-hindustantimes.com

6.Recently, medium to low-intensity earthquakes have been witnessed in several parts of India including Uttarakhand. Uttarakhand has been at the receiving end of natural calamities. On Saturday, an earthquake of magnitude 4.6 on the Richter scale hit Uttarakhand's Joshimath, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said.-dnaindia.com

7.Hopeful of an early resolution to the long-running farmers’ protests on the national capital borders, a key member of the Supreme Court-appointed panel on contentious agri-laws on Wednesday said the report submitted by the committee is “cent per cent” in favour of farmers and the apex court must take up the matter without any delay.-thewire.in

8.The next few days of Ganeshotsav are expected to be wet with the monsoon set to gather pace again. At least six districts in Maharashtra have been put on an orange alert for September 13-14 with chances of isolated heavy to very heavy rain in these regions, including Pune district’s ghat areas, India Meteorological Department (IMD) officials told TOI on Friday.-The Times of India

9.Solar storms are probably one of the most amazing phenomenons that one can witness. However, now new research has said that the solar storm which hits Earth next could potentially destroy the infrastructure and cause an 'internet apocalypse'. The internet blackout will last for months.-dnaindia.com

10.Hotel Association of India(HAI)invited to appear before the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism & Culture, headed by T G Venkatesh, M.P., Rajya Sabha on September 9, 2021.HAI was represented by its Corporate Member Jyotsna Suri and Chairperson & MD, Bharat Hotels Limited and Ajay Bakaya, Fellow Member HAI and MD, Sarovar Hotels Pvt. Ltd.-hospitalityworld.com

11.Till recently, not many had heard of Ladhpura Khas, a tiny hamlet snuggled in Niwari district of Madhya Pradesh. But things changed overnight when it was announced as one of the three Indian entries for ‘best tourism village list of United Nations’ World Tourism Organisation.-Times of India

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