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[00:00:09] Hello, this is your daily dose of news from Onmanorama.
[00:00:13] I am your host, Swati Ajat and these are the major news stories of Friday, Sept 6, 2024.
[00:00:20] India's top wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia on Friday join the Congress in run-up
[00:00:25] to the Haryana Assembly elections on October 5.
[00:00:28] The development comes two days after the wrestlers met Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi
[00:00:32] and few else speculation about them entering the poll fray.
[00:00:36] Enforcement Directorate officers conducted simultaneous search operations at the residences of Sandeep
[00:00:41] Kosh, the ex-principal of the state-run Arjikar Medical College and Hospital and three office
[00:00:46] associates in connection with alleged financial irregularities at the institute.
[00:00:51] China will no longer send children overseas for adoption, the government said overturning
[00:00:55] a more than three-decade rule that was rooted in its one-strict one-child policy.
[00:01:00] A fire raged through the dormitory of a boarding school for young children in Sandeep, Kenya
[00:01:05] in the early hours of Friday, killing 17 boys sleeping there.
[00:01:10] The opposition Congress in Kerala took out a protest march to the Secretary demanding
[00:01:14] the resignation of Chief Minister in Rai Vijayan in connection with the allegations levelled
[00:01:18] by LFMLA-PV Anwar against some of the top IAPS officers in the state.
[00:01:24] Let's get into the details.
[00:01:26] Top wrestlers Vinesh Fogart and Bajrang Pune on Friday joined the Congress in the run-up
[00:01:30] to the Harian Assembly elections on October 5.
[00:01:33] The development comes two days after, the grapplers met Congress leader Rahul Ganti in New Delhi
[00:01:38] and few else speculation about them entering the poll fray.
[00:01:41] It is expected that Fogart will contest the election from Jullana.
[00:01:45] The seat held by Jain-e-Janta parties emerged thanda while Pune is set for the Badali
[00:01:49] Constituency, the Congress seat where the state BJP has fielded former State
[00:01:53] unit President Om Prakash Thankar.
[00:01:55] Both Pune and Fogart, along with the wrestler Sakshi Mallik, were the prominent faces who
[00:02:00] protested against British Potion Shahran Singh, ex-BJP MP and then Chief of the Wrestling
[00:02:05] Federation of India, who they accused of sexually harassing young wrestlers.
[00:02:09] Enforcement Directorate officers on Friday conducted simultaneous search operations
[00:02:14] at the residences of Sandeep Kosh, the ex-principal of the state and Arjagar Medical College
[00:02:19] and Hospital and three officers associated in connection with alleged financial
[00:02:23] regularities at the institute and officer said.
[00:02:26] The raids were carried out at Kosh's residence in Belayakhatta and two locations in
[00:02:30] Dhaura and Shlupaskaram.
[00:02:32] All the four are all-day in CBI custody.
[00:02:35] The ED has filed an enforcement case information report against Kosh, which is analogous
[00:02:40] to a first information report in criminal cases.
[00:02:43] On August 23, the Kolkata High Court ordered the transfer of the investigation into
[00:02:48] the alleged financial regularities at state and hospital from a state-constituted special
[00:02:52] investigation team to the CBI.
[00:02:54] Kosh was principal from February 2021 to September 2023.
[00:02:59] He was briefly transferred in October 2023 but was reinstated within a month.
[00:03:03] He was suspended again after a 31-year-old female doctor was found dead in the hospital
[00:03:08] seminar hall.
[00:03:09] China will no longer set children overseas for adoption.
[00:03:13] The government set overturning a more than three-decade rule that was rooted
[00:03:16] in its one-strick, one-child policy.
[00:03:19] More than 160,000 Chinese children have been adopted by families across the world since
[00:03:23] 1992 when China first opened its doors to international adoption.
[00:03:28] Around 82,000 of these children, mostly girls, have been adopted in the United States,
[00:03:33] according to China's Children International.
[00:03:36] On Thursday, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Wening said,
[00:03:40] The Chinese government had adjusted its cross-border adoption policy to be in line
[00:03:43] with international trends.
[00:03:45] A fire raged through the dormitory of a boarding school for young children in Central
[00:03:50] Kenya in the early hours of Friday, killing 17 boys sleeping there, police said.
[00:03:55] Citizen television said the fire had burned the victims beyond recognition.
[00:03:59] Its footage from the scene shows collapsed iron sheet roofing and charred metal storage
[00:04:03] boxes on top of double-decker beds in the dormitory.
[00:04:07] A government spokesperson said the boys were in grades 4 to 8, putting their ages
[00:04:11] at about 9 to 13 years old.
[00:04:13] He said in a statement, the dormitory housed 156 students.
[00:04:18] The opposition Congress in Kerala on Friday took out a protest march to
[00:04:21] Secretary demanding resignation of Chief Minister Pindra Vijayan
[00:04:25] in connection with allegations levelled by L.D.F.MLA P.V. Anwaragans,
[00:04:29] some top IPS officers in the state.
[00:04:31] Hundreds of Congress members, workers and supporters, led by K.P.C.'s Chief
[00:04:36] K. Sudhagaran, leader of opposition assembly, V.D. Satishan
[00:04:39] and ASC General Secretary in charge Kerala D.B. Dasmunchi,
[00:04:44] Marshal Secretary holding a party flag.
[00:04:46] As the protesters reached the secretariat, they shouted slogans against
[00:04:50] the ruling left government and CM and demanded Vijayan's resignation.
[00:04:54] Sudhagaran alleged that the state was in dire straits,
[00:04:57] under the Pindra Vijayan-led government for the past eight years.
[00:05:00] That brings us to the end of this episode.
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