What happened: Nupur Sharma made hateful remarks about Prophet Muhammad during a Times Now debate on the Gyanvapi mosque controversy last week.
š CONTEXT: Hollywood actor Johnny Depp sued his ex-wife Amber Heard for defaming him when she called herself āa public figure representing domestic abuseā in a Washington Post opinion piece. She countersued him for publicly calling her accusations a āhoaxā.
š±š° WHAT: Sri Lanka has been going through its worst economic crisis for weeks now, with dwindling foreign reserves leading to a shortage of all essentials on the import-dependent island nation.
š„µ WHAT: As if it wasnāt hot enough, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted heat wave conditions for at least the next five days, with large parts of the country reporting temperatures around 45 degrees Celsius.
š·šŗ WHAT: Russia has accused NATO, specially the US, of fighting a proxy war by supplying military aid to Ukraine.
āļøWHAT: The World Health Organisation (WHO) is investigating the mysterious rise in severe cases of hepatitis in children around the world. Cause still unknown, the disease has infected at least 190 children across twelve countries, including the US, UK and Spain.
š“ WHAT: Indonesia, the worldās biggest palm oil producer is shutting down all exports from April 28.š§ WHY: Indonesia is facing domestic shortages and soaring prices. By banning exports, it wants to prioritise the needs of its people first. āļø IMPACT: Palm oil is ubiquitous; itās used in everything, from from cooking oils to processed foods, cosmetics, detergents and biofuels. š®š³ India is the largest importer of Indonesian palm oilāimporting four million tons a month. This ban will lead to surges in rates of edible oil and food prices, in general. šŗš¦ Russia, the worldās largest exporter of crude oil, continues to bombard and attack Ukraine, the worldās largest exporter of sunflower oil, leading to an oil crisis, across the board.
š¾ WHAT: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has concluded his two-day trip to India today, having signed commercial deals worth over Ā£1 billion in areas from software engineering to health.
āļøWHAT: On Wednesday, North Delhi Municipal Corporation razed several shops and structures in Jahangirpuri claiming that they were illegal encroachments, and without giving any notice to owners who were mostly Muslim. The drive began four days after communal violence in the area.
š· WHAT: As Covid-19 cases continue rising in India after weeks of steady decline, UP, Haryana and Delhi have reimposed mandatory mask mandates in certain areas.
š·šŗ WHAT: After weeks of retreating and regrouping, Russian forces have launched an all-out offensive against Ukraine in what Kremlin has declared as āanother phase of this operation.ā
ā”ļø WHAT: The Supreme Court has set aside the Allahabad High Court order granting bail to prime accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence, Ashish Mishra, son of Union minister Ajay Mishra.
Russia has been waging war on Ukraine for 50 days today, and shows no signs of stopping. If anything, things are getting worse.
š WHAT: The Delhi Police, in an affidavit has told the Supreme Court, that no anti-Muslim hate speech was made by Suresh Chavhanke, the editor-in-chief of Sudarshan News at a religious conclave organised in Delhi in December by the Hindu Yuva Vahini.
āļøCONTEXT: On April 4, a 14-year-old was allegedly gang-raped at a birthday party organised by Braja Gopal Goala, the son of local Trinamool Congress leader Samar Goala, in West Bengal's Nadia district. The girl died due to excessive bleeding the next day.
Who said what at the virtual meet between POTUS Biden and PM Modi, and the 2+2 talks between Indian Defence Minister and External Affairs Minister and their US counterparts?
šµš° CONTEXT: Imran Khan was ousted from the office of Pakistanās PM after he lost a no-confidence vote in parliament on April 10.āļø NOW: The joint Opposition of socialist, liberal and radical parties named 70-year-old Shahbaz Sharif for the postāand he was elected as the new PM today.
š£ WHAT: All adults who have received two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine at least nine months ago will be eligible for a third (booster/precautionary) dose starting April 10, in private hospitals only.
š¦ WHAT: The first Covid-19 case caused by the XE variant of the coronavirus has been detected in Mumbai.
š WHAT: We are running out of time to prevent irreversible climate change, says the latest report by the UNās Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).