Planetupdate

  Gujarat  has been ranked first in the first ever  Export  Preparedness  index  2020 released by NITI Aayog on Wednesday.  It is the first of its kind  index  on the lines of ease of doing business ranking, which has ranked all the states and Union Territories on various parameters of  export  preparedness and competitiveness. Gujarat has topped the index with a strong display in various sub-pillars such as Export promotion policy, Business Environment and Infrastructure. Gujarat had also topped the ranking of the World Bank’s ease of doing business earlier.

  New Zealand mosque gunman Brenton Tarrant was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Thursday for the massacre of 51 Muslim worshippers last year. Judge Cameron Mander said Tarrant's crimes were so wicked that a life time in jail could not begin to atone for them. He said they had caused enormous loss and hurt and stemmed from a warped and malignant ideology.

  South Korea has reported 441 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, the highest spike in the number of single-day infections since March 7. The new figure took the overall caseload in the country to 18,706 and was also a triple-digit growth for 14 straight days, according to a media report.

  In a shocking allegation against her Bollywood colleagues, Kangana Ranaut has claimed that if the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) starts investigation, many A-listers could end up behind bars. Kangana made the allegation via Twitter on Wednesday and referred to the film industry as "Bullywood". "If narcotics Control Bureau enters Bullywood, many A listers will be behind bars, if blood tests are conducted many shocking revelations will happen. Hope @PMOIndia under swatchh Bharat mission cleanses the gutter called Bullywood," tweeted Kangana from her verified account on Wednesday, tagging the office of the Prime Minister of India.

  Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists had asked their handlers in Pakistan to prepare videos of the Pulwama terror attack that showed mutilated bodies of Indian soldiers to motivate Kashmiri youths to join militant ranks against India. The official said that the JeM terrorists also wanted to make an audio-video clip on suicide bomber Aadil Ahmed Dar, who rammed the explosive-laden car into a security convoy bus on February 14 in 2019, in Kashmiri language to motivate the youths in the Valley.

  Seven Bangladeshis, who illegally entered India with the help of human traffickers, were apprehended from West Bengal's Nadia district on Wednesday, the Border Security Force (BSF) said. Bangladeshis, who included two women and a three-year-old child, at around 11.30 a.m. from the Gajna-Tarakpur road where they were waiting for a vehicle, the BSF said. When the BSF asked them to identify themselves and they could not produce any valid Indian identities or documents, they were detained. On preliminary questioning, they revealed that they crossed over to India on Tuesday night from an unfenced patch

  The US has imposed a visa ban on members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime, People's Liberation Army (PLA) and some state-owned businesses responsible for the occupation and militarization of the disputed South China Sea. "These individuals will now be inadmissible into the United States, and their immediate family members may be subject to these visa restrictions as well," the State Department said.