Today's Main News Headlines (Monday,2 August)


HeadLines

02.08.2021 Monday


1. Tokyo Olympics:

 

-Sindhu tames China's Bing Jiao to secure bronze in badminton singles.


-India beat Great Britain 3-1 to enter semis of Olympics men's hockey after 49 years.


-Italian Lamont Marcell Jacobs wins Olympic 100 m gold to become 'world's fastest man'.


2. Zoom reaches $85 mln settlement of lawsuit over user privacy, Zoombombing.


3. Kerala to cancel weekend lockdown, to revise COVID protocol.


4. Distribution of Onam food kits begins in Kerala.


5. Kerala police team heads to Bihar to track source of pistol used in Kothamangalam killings.


6. Organ donation: Road accident victim Jerry Varghese from TVM to live on through five others .


7. Centre to use satellite mapping to resolve North Eastern border disputes.


8. Myanmar: State of emergency extended with coup leader as PM.


9. Two critically endangered Sumatran tigers infected with Covid.


10. Kerala logs 20,728 COVID cases, 56 deaths, TPR at 12.14 pc.


Headlines Vocab

1. Zoombombing or Zoom raiding refers to the unwanted, disruptive intrusion, generally by Internet trolls, into a video-conference call. In a typical Zoombombing incident, a teleconferencing session is hijacked by the insertion of material that is lewd, obscene, racist, homophobic, Islamophobic, or antisemitic in nature, typically resulting in the shutdown of the session.

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