World

Global Citizen Live generates $1.1 billion to fight poverty

Prince Harry & Meghan

Global Citizen Live, a 24-hour concert that featured performances from Stevie Wonder, Jennifer Lopez, BTS and Elton John and dozens of other stars, raised more than $1.1 billion in commitments and pledges over the weekend to fight extreme poverty.

Broadcasting from sites on six continents, including New York’s Central Park and in world.Vaccine pledges, which also came from the governments of Croatia and Ireland, followed numerous pleas, including from Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, onstage at Central Park on Saturday afternoon.

World

CNN pulls out of Facebook in Australia, citing defamation risk

Australia

News outlet CNN has said it scrapped its Facebook presence in Australia claiming that the social media behemoth refused to disable the comments section, while also citing the country’s high court ruling which made publishers responsible for defamatory comments posted by users on social media.

India

India integrated climate protection into its national development: MoS Lekhi

Meenakshi Lekhi, Minister of State for External Affairs, today said India has taken many bold steps on clean energy, energy efficiency afforestation and bio-diversity. And also added it has integrated climate protection into its national development and industrial strategies.

Lekhi, while speaking at Impact Finance Conference 2021 in Bern, Switzerland, noted New Delhi’s focus is also on cutting the energy consumption and efficient management of energy produced.

India

Public-private partnership can bring ‘defence production revolution’: Rajnath

Rajnath Singh

Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said the government has created an atmosphere of jointness to ensure modernisation of the armed forces in the rapidly evolving global security scenario. In his address at Society of Indian Defence Manufacturers (SIDM) annual meeting, he added public-private partnership can bring a “Defence Production Revolution” and help achieve the vision of “Aatmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India)”.He underlined the importance of indigenisation and spoke about the reforms undertaken to integrate the private sector and achieve Atmanirbhar Bharat. “The reforms include earmarking 64.09% of Capital Acquisition Budget for 2021-22 for domestic capital procurement and 15% of capital procurement budget for direct procurement from private industry; setting up of Defence Industrial Corridors in Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu; introduction of Innovation for Defence Excellence; free Transfer of Technology through Defence Research & Development Organisation and increase in FDI in defence up to 74% through automatic route and up to 100% through government route.”

Sports

Virender Sehwag schools PBKS skipper KL Rahul on his batting after MI clash

Shewag & PBKS

As Punjab continue to struggle in the bottom-half, former Indian opener-turned-commentator Virender Sehwag has schooled Rahul regarding his approach with the bat. The right-hander has 422 runs in 10 innings, at an average of 52.75 and strike-rate of over 130. Sehwag, however, feels he should play more naturally and attack from the word go.

World

Three hours a week: Play time’s over for China’s young video gamers

China Gamers

China has forbidden under-18s from playing video games for more than three hours a week, a stringent social intervention that it said was needed to pull the plug on a growing addiction to what it once described as “spiritual opium”.

Tamil Nadu

Marina Beach to soon get shaded walkways

Namba Chennai

Soon, walk along Marina Beach under the shade of creepers. The 2.5km-long walkway between the pedestrian footpath and the service lane is set to get a revamp.“Work has begun and two fountains have been set up. We plan to complete the project in a month,” said a senior Greater Chennai Corporation official. The Rs 23.5 lakh project involves six sun shades with creepers and five fountains. One fountain has been installed behind the Gandhi statue. The revamp, undertaken by road contractors, isn’t just for aesthetics, an official said as these installations will help boost the area’s micro climate, especially for walkers.

Tech

Facebook pumping $50 million into its metaverse project is another sign that Zuckerberg doesn’t want to miss the crypto bus

Metaverse

Facebook announced a $50 million fund for its metaverse project today.
The social network is already working on its own stablecoin called Diem along with a digital wallet dubbed Novi.
Cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have a major role to play in future virtual worlds that people will live in.

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