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Quad countries to announce financing for India’s coronavirus : US official

The Quad group of countries will hold its first ever meeting on Friday with a plan to announce financing agreements to boost manufacturing capacity for coronavirus vaccines in India, said a senior U.S administration official as per reports.

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The Quad group of countries will hold its first ever meeting on Friday with a plan to announce financing agreements to boost manufacturing capacity for coronavirus vaccines in India, said a senior U.S administration official as per reports.

The financing agreements will be between the United States, Japan and others, which will focus particularly on India’s companies and institutions manufacturing vaccines  for American drugmakers Novavax and Johnson & Johnson, the official added. 

The Quad group that includes the United States, Japan, India and Australia, have aimed to reduce manufacturing backlogs, speed vaccination and fight some coronavirus mutations, informed the official.

According to the US officials,the idea is to accelerate the process of vaccination.The quicker you can vaccinate, the more that you can defeat some of these mutations. So, this is a capacity expected to come online later this year, and it will substantially increase our capacity, collectively, he said.

The Southeast Asian countries have plans to use some of the additional vaccine capacity created in India in its vaccination efforts, the official added.

On Tuesday, The White House has announced that President Joe Biden will participate in an online Quad meeting scheduled for Friday. It would be the first leader-level meeting of a group taking efforts to balance China’s growing military and economic power.

A range of issues facing the global community from the threat of Covid-19, to economic cooperation and the climate crisis is expected to be discussed, said Jen Psaki, White House spokeswoman.

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Meanwhile, India has earlier urged the other Quad members to invest in its vaccine production capacity in an attempt to counter China’s widening vaccine diplomacy.

The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue also known as the Quad is an informal strategic forum between the United States, Japan, India and Australia that is maintained by information exchanges, semi-regular summits, and military drills between member countries.

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Zomato introduces Food Rescue feature

“We don’t encourage order cancellation at Zomato, because it leads to a tremendous amount of food wastage,” he said.

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Zomato has introduced a new feature called Food Rescue to prevent food wastage, announced the CEO of online food delivery platform Deepinder Goyal on Sunday.

Announcing the new feature, Goyal said the decision, to introduce the new feature, was taken to prevent the tremendous amount of food wastage due to order cancellation on the platform.

“We don’t encourage order cancellation at Zomato, because it leads to a tremendous amount of food wastage,” he said.

The Zomato boss said despite stringent policies, and a no-refund policy for cancellations, more than 4 lakh perfectly good orders get cancelled on Zomato, for various reasons by customers.

He said the top concern for the online food delivery platform, the restaurant industry, and even the customers who cancel these orders, is to somehow save the food from going to waste.

With the introduction of the new feature, Food Rescue, cancelled orders will now pop up for nearby customers, who can grab them at an unbeatable price, in their original untampered packaging, and receive them in just minutes.

According to Zomato, the cancelled order will pop up on the app for customers within a 3 km radius of the delivery partner carrying the order. To ensure freshness, the option to claim will only be available for a few minutes.

The online food delivery platform will not keep any proceeds except the required government taxes and the amount paid by the new customer will be shared with the original customer (if they made payment online) and with the restaurant partner.

Orders containing items sensitive to distances or temperature such as ice creams, shakes, smoothies, and certain perishable items, will not be eligible for Food Rescue.

Restaurant partners will continue to receive compensation for the original cancelled order, plus a portion of the amount paid by the new customer if the order is claimed, the app said. “Most restaurants have opted in for this feature, and can opt of it easily whenever they want, directly from their control panels,” it added.

The delivery partners will be compensated fully for the entire trip, from the initial pickup to the final drop-off at the new customer’s location, it said.

Food Rescue will show up on the customers’ home page automatically if there’s a cancelled order available for them to grab. The Customers have to refresh the home page to check for any newly available orders which need to be rescued.

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Rahul Gandhi takes a jibe at PM Modi over his unity remarks

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Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his ‘Ek hai toh safe hai’ remarks.

Sharing a picture featuring PM Modi, Industrialist Gautam Adani, SEBI chief Madhabi Puri Buch and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, the former Congress president wrote in Hindi, “’Mann ki baat, ab jubaan pe’ (What is in the heart, now on the tongue).”

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In Jharkhand, PM Modi says people are hankering for a handful of sand, Congress-JMM smuggling it

JMM-Congress have nothing to do with the issue of the people, they are filling their coffers, Modi said.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday lashed out at the Congress-JMM coalition over its corruption, saying the alliance is busy selling rivers, streams, and mountains in the state, adding their leaders, in fact, have built houses by smuggling sand. PM Modi alleged that they are taking bribes even for birth and death certificates.

Addressing the rally in Jharkhand’s Gumala, the Prime Minister said: “This is your money, you are its owner and Modi will not let your money be looted.” He added that “those who have looted will have to return it and spend their lives in jail” once his party comes to power in the state.

JMM-Congress have nothing to do with the issue of the people, they are filling their coffers, Modi said.

Hitting out at the alliance, PM Modi said: “You have seen the mountains of notes of the JMM and Congress leaders and ministers. I have been a Chief Minister and even become a Prime Minister, but I have never seen such huge mountains of notes in my life. I saw such mountains for the first time on TV. So many notes came out that the machines got tired of counting them.”

“If you divide into castes then the strength of the tribals will diminish. That’s why I say – if we stay united, we will be safe,” he reiterated his statement targeting the Congress party.

Till there was no unity between OBCs, tribals and Dalits, the Congress kept forming governments at the Centre, claimed Modi.

“Beware of Congress-JMM’s evil designs and conspiracies. They can go to any extent to snatch power. Congress has been an opponent of SC, ST, and OBC unity since Independence,” Modi said.

“More than 125 sub-castes are considered OBCs in the Chotanagpur region. Congress-JMM wants to break the OBC unity by pitting sub-castes against each other. I warn you ‘ek rahoge toh safe rahoge’,” he added. He said a BJP-led government was needed in Jharkhand to drive out infiltrators and eradicate corruption.

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