Mamta Banerjee reshuffled her cabinet, Priyanka Chopra's UNICEF ambassador responsibilities, Lovepreet Singh bagged bronze medal : Top headlines | Let's Catch Up Ep-56

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• US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi departed Taiwan on Wednesday, a tour that fueled US-China rift. Pelosi's visit, a first by the highest-ranking elected US official in more than 25 years, was viewed as an offence by Beijing as she is being seen as third in line for the presidency in the US after Joe Biden and vice-president Kamala Harris. Depsite several hostile threats by China before Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, the US House Speaker landed in Taipei on Tuesday night.
  
  
• The voting for the next Prime Minister of Britain has been postponed by conservative party members after an unexpected glitch on Tuesday. The decision was taken after GCHQ spy agency warned that cyber hackers could change people’s ballots, according to various media publications, reported ANI.
  
  
• The wreckage of a military helicopter that went missing on Monday night carrying senior military officers was found and the death of at least six officers and crew members was confirmed by Pakistan military media wing on Tuesday. However, the claim by the Pakistan military was countered with a claim by an umbrella organization of Baloch separatist armed groups. Baloch Raaji Aajoi Sangar (BRAS), an umbrella organization of Baloch armed groups claimed responsibility for targeting and downing the low-flying military helicopter in the mountainous areas of Windar and Noorani in Balochistan.
  
  
• The Pakistan government led by Shehbaz Sharif is considering placing the name of Pakistan Tehreek e Insaaf (PTI) leaders on the exit control list after the election commission of Pakistan prohibited funding ruling. The coalition government has also decided to request Chief Justice Umar ata bandial to constitute a full court to hear the case it is going to file in the wake of the prohibited funding verdict, Geo news reported
  
  
• Advocates for Directors of the Amos company, whose name has become involved in the Gujarat hooch tragedy, withdrew the bail petition filed at Gujarat High Court as the court refused to accept the same and directed them to approach Sessions Court first. According to police officials investigating the matter, a chemical used to make alcohol was stolen by an accused worker from Amos Company in Ahmedabad.
  
  
• Congress MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi on Wednesday resigned from the Haryana Assembly. He is all set to join the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday. Accompanied by his wife Renuka Bishnoi and his cousin brother Dura Ram, Kuldeep Bishnoi met the Assembly Speaker Gian Chand Gupta and submitted his resignation.
  
  
• Jharkhand mukti morcha jmm on Wednesday declared its support for the opposition's vice president candidate Margaret Alva. The JMM released a communique for its leaders saying that 'all the MPs are directed to vote for the vice president candidate Margaret Alva in the upcoming polls on August 6.
  
  
• West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee reshuffled her cabinet and inducted nine new ministers in her team on Wednesday. According to a report by news agency PTI, Babul Supriyo, Snehasis Chakraborty, Partha Bhowmick, Udayan Guha and Pradip Mazumder were sworn in as cabinet ministers. Tajmul Hossain and Satyajit Barman took oath as ministers of state, and apart from them, tribal leader Birbaha Hansda and Biplab Roy Chowdhury were also sworn in as Ministers with independent charges.
  
  
• Aamir Khan has said that he did not retain certain parts from the Hollywood film Forrest Gump for his upcoming film Laal Singh Chaddha. Laal Singh Chaddha is the official Hindi remake of the 1994 film that starred Tom Hanks in the lead role. Aamir has said in a new interview that the ‘adult scenes’ that were in the original, did not make their way to the Hindi remake.
  
  
• Priyanka Chopra is currently in Poland undertaking her share of UNICEF's goodwill ambassador responsibilities. The actor shared many pictures from her interaction with children who are currently in special care given the war situation in Russia-Ukraine which started in February this year. Priyanka also shared a long post highlighting the 'Unbreakable Ukraine' programme by UNICEF and other collaborators for the benefit of children who have suffered during the war.
  
  
• Hollywood star Brad Pitt took a moment to comment on his recent look at the Los Angeles premiere of 'Bullet Train'. The actor has been making an impression as he's continued the global promotional circuit for the action movie, making headlines last week for wearing a linen skirt to the film's premiere in Germany. Pitt gave the best explanation he could for the inspiration behind the look. "I don't know! We're all going to die, so let's mess it up," Pitt told 'Variety'.
  
  
• The director who brought all of this mouth-watering martial arts action to the MCU has now been confirmed as the director of the next big Avengers movie, 2025’s The Kang Dynasty — Destin Daniel Cretton, one of several indie film wunderkinds who are now part of Marvel’s inner sanctum. This dual announcement — Kang as the next Big Bad, and Cretton as the man who’ll bring Kang to the big screen during a Thanos-scale event — was the biggest one amidst a huge weekend for Marvel fans.
  
  
• 24-year-old Lovepreet Singh on Wednesday, August 3, won a bronze medal in the men’s 109kg weightlifting at the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham. Lovepreet, a navy man from Amritsar, set two national records, one each in snatch and clean and jerk, as he had successful lifts in all his 6 attempts. It was also the 9th medal in weightlifting for India at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games, as the country’s domination in the sport continues at this level.
  
  
• President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday congratulated the Indian badminton mixed team for clinching silver medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.The defending champions India lost to the spirited Malaysia 1-3 in the gold medal match on Tuesday (August 2). PV Sindhu helped India bounce back after Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty lost the first match. However, the defeats of Kidami Srikanth, and Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand dethroned India as reigning champions.
  
  
• Rohit Sharma-led Indian cricket team will take on arch-rivals Pakistan later this month at the Asia Cup 2022 on 28th August. The 2022 edition of the much-awaited event, hosted by Sri Lanka Cricket Board, will be played in the United Aram Emirates (UAE) from 27th August to 11th September. India will be playing a T20 International match against Pakistan since their ICC T20 World Cup 2021 match.
  
  
• Nifty ends around 17,400, Sensex up 214 pts; IT stocks gain.
  Tech Mahindra, TCS, Infosys, Asian Paints and Titan Company were among the major gainers on the Nifty. The losers included Maruti Suzuki, Sun Pharma, Tata Motors, Kotak Mahindra Bank and Coal India.