1. Fire at ONGC’s Uran Plant Kills GM, 3 CISF Constables
A major fire broke out at the ONGC oil and gas processing plant at Nagaon village in Uran, around 30km from Navi Mumbai, killing four persons, including the plant’s general manager, and injuring two others on the morning of Tuesday, 3 September. Fire-fighters controlled it in four hours before it could turn into a bigger disaster.
C N Rao, GM and resident production supervisor, got trapped in the blaze as he rushed into the plant to check the situation. Three CISF fire-fighters—head constable E Nayaka and constables M K Paswan and S P Kushwahawere killed when their tender caught fire. Their colleagues, constables Mahesh K R and Raj Shinde, sustained severe burns and are admitted in hospital.
(Source: The Times of India)
2. Johnson Loses Majority in Commons Amid Brexit Crisis
The Boris Johnson government on Tuesday lost its slender majority of one in the House of Commons when Conservative MP Philip Lee defected to the Liberal Democrats over what he called the government “aggressively pursuing Brexit in “unprincipled ways.”
The development added a new dimension to the United Kingdom’s charged Brexit-related atmosphere that included an emergency motion to be voted on early Wednesday.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
3. J&K Team Meets Amit Shah, Says He Assured Curbs to Be Eased in 25 Days
A J&K delegation which met Union Home Minister Amit Shah Tuesday said he assured them that restrictions on communication in Kashmir may be lifted in less than a month’s time, and that the next Chief Minister will be from among them.
Nearly 100 people, including members of village panchayats, sarpanchs, apple,growers and representatives of people displaced during Partition, met the Home Minister at his North Block office to discuss their problems including the hardship caused by curbs imposed ahead of the removal of the special status of J&K. They said they also discussed the road ahead in the new set-up.
(Source: The Indian Express)
4. Poor Economic Data Unnerves Markets, Sensex Tanks 770 Pts
Domestic factors, especially weak economic data, weighed on investor sentiment on Tuesday to pull the sensex down by 770 points, or 2 percent, to 36,563 points; 28 of the index’s 30 constituents closed in the red. In percentage terms, it was also the year’s steepest fall.
As a result, investors were left poorer by Rs 2.6 lakh crore with BSE’s market capitalisation now at Rs 137.8 lakh crore. Dwindling investor confidence combined with foreign fund selling could result in more downside for the market, warned brokers. On the global front, the US-China trade war is also a headwind for the markets, they said.
(Source: The Times of India)
5. Man, 8-Year-Old Killed by Speeding Truck at India Gate
A late evening out at India Gate for a family of four ended in tragedy as a 42-year-old stockbroker and his eight-year-old daughter were killed when a speeding dumper truck rammed four vehicles on Mansingh Road before storming into the lawns surrounding the monument a little after midnight on Tuesday.
The truck hit three empty auto-rickshaws — two of them were crushed — and a scooter belonging to the deceased, Kewal Diwan, who had taken his wife and two children for a round of ice-cream to celebrate the end of his elder daughter Manya’s school examinations last week.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
6. ED Arrests Congress Troubleshooter DK Shivakumar, Party Says Vendetta
Shivakumar was summoned for questioning last Friday and he arrived at the agency headquarters late in the evening following summons sent to him Thursday.
After summoning him for questioning over the last four days, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) Tuesday arrested Karnataka Congress leader D K Shivakumar in New Delhi in connection with a case of money laundering associated with alleged hawala transactions.
(Source: The Indian Express)
7. No More Questions, Says CBI, but SC Tells It to Keep PC in Custody Till 5 Sept
With the Supreme Court directing status quo in the legal battle between P Chidambaram and the CBI on sending him to Tihar under judicial custody in the INX Media case, the Congress leader will remain in CBI custody till 5 September despite the agency saying that it did not require his custody.
On Monday, the court had allowed Chidambaram to approach the trial court for interim bail and ordered that he will remain in CBI custody if his plea was rejected. On Tuesday, the bench modified its order and allowed him to remain in CBI custody after recording the statement of advocates Kapil Sibal and A M Singhvi that the former minister would not press for bail in the trial court till the apex court decided the matter.
(Source The Times of India)
8. Just 1 in 5 Mudra Beneficiaries Started New Business: Govt Survey
The government’s constant refrain has been that its flagship Mudra scheme is an engine for entrepreneurship and employment. A survey by the Labour Ministry, yet to be made public, offers a reality check: just one out of five beneficiaries (20.6 percent) from the sample survey availed of Mudra loan for setting up a new establishment, the rest used the funds for expanding their existing business.
The Draft Report on Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana Survey conducted by the Labour Bureau under the Ministry of Labour and Employment has found that 1.12 crore additional jobs were created during April 2015-December 2017, the first 33 months following the rollout of the scheme
(Source: The Indian Express)
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