News you need to know before starting your day: 21 September 2021

News:

1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have bilateral meetings with both US President Joe Biden (September 24) and vice president Kamala Harris (September 23) in the course of a busy three-day trip to the US that will see him addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York as the first speaker of the day.HT
2. The Finance minister said, “I’m happy to see recovery; at this stage we want to have very positive signs from all segments so that mutually they create this thing called sentiment. If sentiment becomes positive, it creates a multiplier effect.” HT
3. With 53 more cases of dengue recorded in the Capital over the last week, the total number of the mosquito borne infection so far this year in Delhi has crossed the 200 mark. HT
4. The UK has changed its Covid-19 travel rules, placing Indians who are vaccinated with Covishield in the category of ‘unvaccinated’. While it has relaxed the rules for those vaccinated with two doses Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, the same version of the vaccine being manufactured in India by Pune based Serum Institute of India has been kept out of the list. Indian Express
5. Congress appointed Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa and Om Parkash Soni as deputy CMs in Punjab. While Channi is MLA from Chamkaur Sahib in Malwa region, Soni and Randhwa represent Amritsar Central and Dera Baba Nanak, respectively, in Majha. Indian Express

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1. BJP leader Kirit Somaiya detained at railway station ahead of Kolhapur visit. Kirit Somaiya was scheduled to Kolhapur later in the day to prove his allegations of corruption against minister Hasan Mushrif, an MLA from Kagal in the western Maharashtra district.
2. For the first time in the history of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), 52 persons were appointed as special invitees for its trust board against seven only in the board constituted in 2019.
3. Mahant Narendra Giri, president of the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad, was found dead in his room at the Baghambari Math in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj on Monday evening.