00:00 Agitators set a Karnataka passenger bus on fire after protests for the Maratha reservation
00:11 in the Jalna district of central Maharashtra turned violent on Friday, leading to several
00:16 people, including at least 12 police personnel, getting injured.
00:20 As the police resorted to lathi charge to disperse the agitating protesters, they hurled
00:24 stones at the police and set buses on fire, including both Karnataka and Maharashtra public
00:29 transport vehicles.
00:30 The protesters, led by Manoj Jarange, had been staging a hunger strike demanding reservations
00:36 for the Maratha community in the village since Tuesday.
00:39 Chief Minister Eknath Shinde made an appeal for peace and announced that a committee would
00:43 be set up for a high-level probe into the violence.
00:49 India's solar mission Aditya L1 successfully launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre
00:53 in Sriharikota at 11.50 am.
00:56 The mission aims to reach its destination in 125 days.
01:00 After a successful launch of the Chandrayaan-3 mission, the world has its eyes set on the
01:03 Aditya L1 launch.
01:05 Approximately 63 minutes after the liftoff, the satellite separation was expected to take
01:09 place as the PSLV launched the Aditya L1 spacecraft into a highly eccentric Earth-bound orbit.
01:15 Following the launch, Aditya L1 will stay in Earth-bound orbits for 16 days, during
01:19 which it will undergo five manoeuvres to gain the necessary velocity for its journey.
01:24 On Friday, the Enforcement Directorate or ED arrested the founder of Jet Airways, Naresh
01:31 Goyal.
01:32 ED arrested him after questioning him for several hours as part of its money laundering
01:35 investigation related to an alleged bank fraud of around Rs 538.62 crore.
01:41 Goyal was brought to the city from Delhi by an ED team on Friday afternoon.
01:45 Sources said that Goyal was in Delhi to attend a court hearing related to a probe by the
01:49 Serious Fraud Investigation Office when an ED team asked him to accompany them to Mumbai
01:53 for questioning.
01:55 He was placed under arrest at around 11pm after being questioned for over six hours
01:59 in the agency's office in Worli.
02:01 He will be produced in the PMLA court on Sunday for demand by the agency.
02:08 US President Joe Biden will travel to India next week to participate in the G20 summit.
02:13 On Saturday, the White House announced that the US President is slated to have a bilateral
02:17 meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 8 on the sidelines of the historic
02:22 meeting.
02:23 India, which is the president of the G20, will host global leaders for the summit scheduled
02:28 to take place on September 9 and 10 in New Delhi.
02:31 The US White House said that during the summit, Biden will commend PM Modi for his leadership
02:35 of the G20.
02:36 The White House also said that both leaders will also mitigate the economic and social
02:40 impacts of Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine and increase the capacity of
02:45 multilateral development banks, including the World Bank, to better fight poverty, including
02:50 by addressing global challenges.
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