INDIA India reported 94 thousand fresh covid infections yesterday as the case tally rose to 47.5 lakh. Recoveries rose by 78 thousand to 37 lakh, while deaths rose to 78 thousand. Delhi, which was touted for flattening the curve, just reported its highest single-day jump in Covid infections – 4,321. The Union Ministry of Finance announced that ₹30,000 crores have been progressed as a Special Liquidity Scheme for non-banking, housing finance companies and Monetary Financial Institutions as part of the Atmanirbhar Bharat package. The CBI booked two senior GST department officials in Hyderabad for allegedly demanding a five crore rupee bribe to settle a GST fraud case. As Bihar heads into elections, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi Ji inaugurated and dedicated 3 petroleum projects in the state on Sunday. Over the last week, he also launched animal husbandry and fisheries schemes in the state. “We must ensure sushasan in Bihar. The good work done in the last 15 years must continue,” he said. In Mumbai, dabbawalas have requested the government to permit them to use the local trains, which are currently operating under limited numbers and only for those who work in essential services. “Never before in the 130-year-old history of the tiffin services, has there been a six-month break,” said their association president. Former Union minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh passed away. In Delhi, a 16-year-old boy who had no heartbeat for 36 hours after suffering a high voltage electric shock regained consciousness. UNITED STATES The United States should “better manage” its own affairs and stop meddling in those of other nations, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday. “Now is the time for China to ask the United States not to interfere in China's internal affairs”. On Sunday, China's Defense Ministry hit out at the US. “Many years of evidence shows that it is the US that is the fomenter of regional unrest, the violator of the international order and the destroyer of world peace,” said a spokesman. While many cities around the US are cutting police funding in light of national protests, the state of Tennessee is planning on using Coronavirus relief money to fund the training of more police. At Michigan State University, all local students have been asked to self-quarantine for 2 weeks as authorities fear an exponential surge in Covid infections in the county. In New Jersey, Governor Phil Murphy declared Juneteenth as a public holiday. The day, June 19 marks the abolition of slavery in the US back in 1865. The Ohio Supreme Court rejected Kanye West's presidential ballot. 22-year-old Naomi Osaka won the US Open. AROUND THE WORLD AstraZeneca/ Oxford University restarted the trials of their Covid vaccine days after it was suspended following an unexpected illness of one of the candidates. North Korea allegedly executed five Economic Ministry workers after they criticised the supreme leader Kim Jong Un’s policies at a dinner party, reported DailyMail. It is believed the communist party officials were shot by a firing squad on July 30. A Chinese virologist, Dr Li Meng-Yan, who fled to the US after claiming China covered up the coronavirus outbreak, has vowed to publish proof the virus was made in a lab. Reported The Sun. Japan’s Defense Minister Taro Kono said that China has now become a “national security threat” to Japan. “When I was foreign minister, I was very careful not to say that China is a threat although I repeatedly said ‘grave concern’ at news conferences… But as defence minister, I must say China has become a security threat to Japan.” The United Arab Emirates reported its highest yet daily rise in Covid infections after over one thousand people testing positive on Saturday. Despite the international and domestic protest, Iranian wrestling champion Navid Afkari was executed in Iran on Saturday. The 27-year-old was sentenced in connection with protests against the regime in 2018. The Kaduna state in Nigeria has approved