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NEWS & VIEWS|||SARASIJ|||16/07/2025. ||| WEDNESDAY| VOL—IV/2025/JULY/568

NEWS & VIEWS|||SARASIJ|||16/07/2025.

WEDNESDAY| VOL—IV/2025/JULY/568

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India’s clean energy target: New Delhi: GOI said yesterday that 50 percent of its installed electricity capacity now comes from non-fossil fuel sources. It has beaten its 2030 target under the Paris Agreement by five years. The country’s renewable energy output has grown in the first half of this year by its fastest rate since 2022. INDIA is the first country to meet this target, and that too way ahead. Image—Adani Plant.


INDIA: (GOI, SWARAJYA, VISHWAMITRA, HINDU POST, INDIA TODAY).

1.      Union Minister of New & Renewable Energy Pralhad Joshi has reaffirmed that India’s clean energy transformation is not just an environmental objective; it is a national mission, while speaking at the IVCA Renewable Energy Summit 2025 at IIT Bombay.

2.      Mahanagara Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) on Tuesday informed the stock exchanges that it has defaulted on payments of both principal and interest to a group of public sector banks. The total overdue amount stands at nearly ₹8,585 crore. (ET on line)

3.      "After Bihar Voter List Revision, 35.6 Lakh Names Dropped So Far", News 18, July 15, 2025: "The ongoing Special Intensive Revision process has resulted in the exclusion of more than 35 lakh names on the voter list for the upcoming Bihar assembly election.

4.      The Election Commission yesterday said that over 86 percent Enumeration Forms have been received so far in the Special Intensive Revision in Bihar.

5.      The Indian Institute of Creative Technologies (IICT) will open admissions for its first batch of students starting this August.

6.      Yakten village in Sikkim’s Pakyong district was announced as India’s first digital nomad village. This project offers a place for remote workers to stay and work in a peaceful mountain setting while also helping local families earn regular income through broadband-equipped homestays.

7.      Sixty-six villages along the India-Myanmar border in Arunachal Pradesh have been chosen for development under the Vibrant Villages Program, focusing on infrastructure like roads, telecom, electricity, livelihoods, and skills.

8.      As the ancestral home of legendary filmmaker and Academy Award winner Satyajit Ray in Bangladesh is being demolished to make way for a new “semi-concrete structure”, the Indian government stepped in on Tuesday and volunteered to help in repair and reconstruction of the property into a “Museum Of Literature”. (No initiative by MB ??!!)

 

 

 

WORLD: (REUTER, AP, AFP, BLOOMBERG, CNN, WP)

A.    USA:Trump threatened Russia with sanctions yesterday and announced that European countries would buy billions of dollars’ worth of American weapons to send to Ukraine. It marked  an abrupt shift in the president’s approach to the Russia-Ukraine war. USA will supply Patriot Missile system, and some attacking weapons. Trump threatened Russia with 100 percent tariffs if it did not agree to a peace deal in fifty days. 

B.     NATO’s secretary General confirmed that paying for the U.S. weapons would include Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. 

C.    Kremlin spokesperson called Trump’s comments “very serious” and said Moscow would “need time to analyse.”  

D.    REVIEW: - Russia’s reserves, both for army and war material, are limited.  UKRAINE’s armed forces are limited, but on war material—EU (NATO) + USA will keep supplying arms.  The task facing the Trump administration is to convince Putin and the Russian war elites that Ukraine and the West will outlast him considering Chinese support. Mounting costs of the war will outweigh any possible benefit, short-term or long-term, and that the longer the war continues, the worse Russia’s strategic Power will become.

E.     Netanyahu’s coalition is in crisis. An ultra-Orthodox party in Israel   announced   yesterday that it would quit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition in protest of a bill limiting exemptions from military conscription, leaving him with only a one-seat majority in parliament. 

F.     France’s foreign minister said today in Brussels that, along with Germany and the United Kingdom, France would trigger a UN snapback mechanism to reimpose sanctions on Iran if nuclear talks do not restart by the end of August. An Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson said on Monday that Tehran would respond with unspecified “appropriate and proportionate” measures if the mechanism was used.

G.    A letter from the office of France’s permanent representative to the United Nations confirmed that France is “open” to Niger reparations for descendants of a violent 1899 colonial campaign. The letter did not acknowledge responsibility. -

CRIME & PUNISHMENT:

I.            Dabba trading: ED conducts raids in Mumbai; Rs 3.3 crore cash, luxury items seized.

II.            It was a race against time, and after a lengthy period of multipronged negotiations, the execution of Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya, which was to happen on Wednesday, has been kept in abeyance.

III.            In the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested eight Khalistani terrorists across the country in a major crackdown on an international terror network. 

MISHAPS: -

Veteran marathon runner Fauja Singh, who had completed a full marathon at the age of 100 thus becoming the oldest person to be doing so, died on last Monday after being hit by an unidentified vehicle at his native Beas village in Punjab’s Jalandhar district. He was 114.  Fauja Singh, fondly called ‘Turbaned Tornado’, turned 114 on April 1 this year and had run a total of nine full marathons in his career spanning 14 years- (2000 to 2013). A SAD END TO A GREAT ATHLETE! The culprit must be arrested, and tried.

DAS KAPITAL:

SHARE MARKET: -

*BSE SENSEX* 82,570.91 +317.45 (0.39%)

*NIFTY* 25,195.80 +113.50 (0.45%)

Currency Exchange Rates:

*USD*: ₹ 85/-*GBP*: ₹115/-*Euro*: ₹ 96/- 

* Yuan ¥*: ₹ 12/- *UAE Dirham*: ₹ 23/-

*Pak Rupee*: ₹ 0.30/- *Bhutan ngultrum*: ₹ 1.00/-

*B’desh’s Taka**: ₹ 0.70/- *Sri Lanka Rupee*: ₹ 0.28/- 

*Nepal Rupee*: ₹ 0.62/- *Maldives Rufiyaa*: ₹ 0.17/- 

BULLIONS:

*GOLD*: ₹ 99,100/ 10gm (24 krt) 

 *SILVER*: ₹ 1,10,000/KG

WHAT IS NEXT:

  • Today, EU foreign ministers meet in Brussels to discuss Ukraine and Gaza.
  • Today, a Senate committee will hold a confirmation hearing for former Trump National Security Advisor Mike Waltz to be UN ambassador.
  • Tomorrow, South Africa will hold a G20 finance minister’s meeting in Durban.
  • Tomorrow, cyclists embark on the second half of the Tour de France in Toulouse. 

 

 

THE END.

 

  

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