Daily Briefing: India calls out Canada; ED searches on Amazon, Flipkart; and more

With that, let’s determination connected to today’s edition:

• ED searches connected Amazon, Flipkart
• Express Adda with Jyotiraditya Scindia
• Why Indian shuttlers request to enactment harder

🚨Big Story

New low: Hours aft The Australia Today aired a associated property league by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his Australian counterpart Penny Wong, respective users successful Canada complained of the quality outlet being blocked. Turns retired that Ottawa blocked the quality outlet aft Jaishankar’s beardown remarks, voicing interest implicit the governmental abstraction being granted to Khalistan extremists successful Canada.

While this comes amid the ongoing India-Canada standoff, Canada is besides portion of the Five Eyes quality sharing confederation with Australia, on with the US, UK and New Zealand.

A pattern: Stating it was “surprised” implicit the “strange” Canadian move, New Delhi said it “yet again highlights the hypocrisy of Canada towards state of speech”. 

🎧 There’s more… Canada has introduced changes to its tourer visa policy, scaling backmost its once-standard signifier of issuing 10-year multiple-entry visas. This means regular visitors to Canada could look accrued costs and logistical challenges arsenic they whitethorn request to use for visas much frequently. Tune into our 3 Things podcast for a heavy dive.

⚡Only successful Express

‘We followed the satellite successful 4G, we marched with it successful 5G, but we volition pb it successful 6G’

At a caller Express Adda, Jyotiraditya Scindia, the Union Minister of Communications and Development of North Eastern Region, spoke connected however India is mounting the inclination successful technology, the ‘Scindia gene’, and transitioning from the Congress to the BJP and what sets some parties apart.

📰 From the Front Page

In a 2nd militant onslaught successful the Jammu state wrong 9 days, 2 colony defence guards (VDGs) were killed connected Thursday successful Kishtwar’s Chatroo area. While the country has witnessed militant question for the past respective months,  the Kashmir Tigers militant outfit has claimed work for these killings, elder officials confirmed.

Under the scanner: On Thursday, aggregate teams of the Enforcement Directorate conducted searches astatine 19 locations of vendors selling their products connected Amazon and Flipkart. An authoritative said the searches were carried retired nether the provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), based connected complaints that the e-commerce platforms were violating India’s Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) rules.

📌 Must Read

Playing the cards right: India is successful the moving to big the 2036 Olympic Games and seems like its transportation is successful it to triumph it. From spiritual diverseness to sending a connection of bid to the world, India’s “strategic presumption on the past silk, spice routes” to its “continued emergence connected the planetary stage” — each these signifier portion of the Indian Olympic Association’s missive of intent, The Indian Express has learnt. While determination is nary notation of a big metropolis yet, Ahmedabad is considered to beryllium the frontrunner.

Writing connected the wall: Five years ago, aft mounting losses for implicit a twelvemonth and crumbling nether dense indebtedness burden, Jet Airways ceased its operations. Now, the Supreme Court has officially enactment to remainder the airline, and on with it immoderate residual anticipation of its revival. The apex tribunal ordered the liquidation of Jet Airways, marking an extremity to the saga of the emergence and autumn of what utilized to beryllium India’s largest aerial carrier.

Paragliding Paradise: Over the past 3 decades, a distant colony successful Himachal Pradesh has made a sanction for itself arsenic a “paraglider paradise” owed to its strong, unchangeable aerial currents. So overmuch truthful that it’s presently hosting the second-edition of the Paragliding World Cup Association Asian Tour-2024. Nearly 16 km downhill from Billing — which conscionable has four-five shops, nary houses and astatine slightest 5 take-off points  — lies Bir village, which is location to a immense plain ground, reserved arsenic the lone landing site.

⏳ And Finally…

“Indian players person to enactment connected that 10% and propulsion themselves.”

Badminton manager Agus Dwi Santoso, who guided apical names successful India similar PV Sindhu, B Sai Praneeth and Kidambi Srikanth, reckons Indian coaching for beginners is all-over-the-place.For Indians, helium points to easy satiated ambition arsenic 1 of the roadblocks successful the travel to greatness. “You request a mentor who tells you 1 World Championship rubric is OK, but not satellite class. Indians deliberation 1 rubric is enough… Way of reasoning present indispensable change,” helium says.

That’s each for today.

Ayesha Jain and Vibha B Madhava

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