Crisis-hit Sri Lanka plans donor conference with China, India, and Japan

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Uddhav Thackeray tests Covid positive, attends Cabinet meeting virtually, ED officials asked me secret of my energy,’ says Rahul Gandhi, Modern Love Hyderabad: Amazon Prime Video teases stories, reveals release date for Telugu version of anthology, and other top news in this bulletin.
Ahead of the crucial Cabinet meeting of the Maha Vikas Aghadi government on Wednesday amid rebellion, Congress leaders claimed chief minister Uddhav Thackeray has tested positive for Covid-19. State Congress chief Nana Patole and Congress observer for the state Kamal Nath, both claimed Uddhav tested positive. Kamal Nath said he was supposed to meet Uddhav Thackeray before the Cabinet meeting, but as Uddhav tested positive for Covid, he did not meet the chief minister. However, Uddhav attended the Cabinet meeting from his residence via video conferencing. The updates come as Maharashtra government tackles the rebellion of top minister Eknath Shinde, who is Assam. He says he has 40 MLAs with him. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said ED officers who were interrogating him asked him how Rahul Gandhi could sit straight for 11 hours without getting up even once in a 12/12 room. “I thought I would not tell them the main thing, will tell something else. I told them that I do Vipasana and that’s why I am habituated to sit still for long hours. But this was not the real reason. The real reason is Rahul Gandhi was not sitting in that room alone. Each and every Congress leaders was there with me. One leader can become tired, but not the several thousand workers of the party,” Rahul said. A 26-year-old software engineer from Telangana was shot dead inside his vehicle in Baltimore city of Maryland state in the United States early on Sunday. His family in Telangana’s Nalgonda said the incident took place when Nakka Sai Charan, who had been working in Baltimore for the last two years, was on his way back after dropping a friend at the airport. According to the Maryland Transportation Authority Police (MDTA), they received information about a single-vehicle collision at the Caton Avenue exit of Interstate 95, the main north-south interstate highway on the East Coast, at 4.32am on Sunday. Sri Lanka will call China, India and Japan to a donor conference to drum up more foreign assistance to find a way out of its worsening economic crisis, the prime minister said on Wednesday, amid ongoing talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The island nation of 22 million people is struggling with its worst financial crisis in seven decades, unable to import essentials including food, fuel and medicines because of a severe shortage of foreign exchange. Amazon Prime Video on Wednesday announced the release date, among other details, of Modern Love Hyderabad, the second of the three localised Indian versions of the widely-acclaimed international series. The Hyderabad chapter will feature six episodes directed by four filmmakers – Nagesh Kukunoor, Venkatesh Maha, Uday Gurrala, and Devika Bahudhanam. The series will start streaming on the platform on July 8. Australian batter David Warner fell agonizingly short of his century when he was stumped out on 99 during the fourth ODI against Sri Lanka on Tuesday. Chasing a 259-run target to win and stay alive in the series, Warner stuck at one end as wickets continued to fall on the other, but couldn’t see Australia off the finishing line as Dhananjaya de Silva dismissed him for the visitors’ seventh wicket of the innings.