21th July: Dhaka Jet Crash, Ladakh Road Push, Justice Varma Impeachment

Description for News At Seven: On News At Seven this 21th of July, Jamshed Qamar Siddiqui brings to you the day’s most crucial headlines.

A Bangladesh Air Force F-7 jet crashed into a Dhaka school during class hours, killing 19 and injuring 70.

India is building a 130-km surveillance-free road to Daulat Beg Oldie in Ladakh, offering a safer, faster alternative amid ongoing tensions with China.

145 MPs moved to impeach Justice Yashwant Varma over misconduct after burnt cash was found at his home, with support across party lines.

Produced by Garvit Srivastava

Sound mix by Aman Pal

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is India Today podcasts, Hello and Welcome to News
at seven Your Daily News RAP at seven pm. I'm
Jami Shiit Kamerceduki and heard the top stories for today.
As of Monday, twenty first July, the headlines are nineteen
killed as Bangladesh Air Force jet crashes into Dhaka school,

(00:24):
India bills surveillance free road to DBO in Laddah, one
forty five MP's moved to impede justice at Joshua Verma
read alert in Himachal as heavy rain triggers landslides, trump
EDMINS proposed wait h one b visa selection. Veteran left
leader V. S Achuta Nan dies at one hundred and

(00:45):
one and India head spark and war heads steep Okeirana
Hills during Operation Sindur claims OSI nt XPOT. At least
nineteen people were killed and seventy others injured after a
training aircraft of the Bangladesh Air Force crashed into a
school building in Dhaka. Today, the China made F seven

(01:07):
jet crashed into the Milestone School and College building in
Dhaka Uttara area. Television footage showed five cent plume of
black smoke blowing from the side of the crash, as
rescue personal rush to carry than Jur to hospitals. In
major push to strengthen border infrastructure along the line of
factual control, India is set to complete a new strategic

(01:29):
road to Dollard baig Old Day in La Dakh by
next year. The one thirty kilometer alternate route running via Sasoma,
sasar Lah and Gabson and Dpo, offers a safer and
faster connection free from Chinese surveillance. The project has been
fast tracked following the dead legal One Valley clash in
twenty twenty amid the ongoing border standoff with China. Unlike

(01:50):
the existing Dabuk Chaiokwo road, which remains vulnerable to Chinese observation,
the new alignment provides India with a strategic edge in
troop and sticks movement. Impeachment proceedings against Justice Yeshwant T.
Wvarma was set in motion after one forty five MPs
submitted a signed memorandum to Lok Sabha Speaker Umbila. Today

(02:13):
the High Court judges accused of misconduct following the discovery
of burnt cash at his residence. The motion filed under
Article one twenty four two hundred and seventeen and two
hundred and eighteen of the Constitution. The garnered support from
lawmakers across party lines, including the BJP Congress, TDP JDU,
CPM and others. Those who signed the motion include MP's

(02:34):
Anurak Takur, Ravishanka Prasad, Rahul Gandhi, Rajiratabrudi, Suprea, sule K
Venugopal and P. P. Chadri. Several parts of Himatpadeesh are
expected to receive extremely heavy rainfall in the coming hours
as the monsoon intensifies across the state. Four districts Chumba, Kangala,
Kulu and Monday have been placed under a Red alert

(02:57):
for a very heavy rain while the rest of the
state remains under an Orange alert em increasing rainfall. In Shimla,
which is witnessing heavy to very heavy rainfall, schools have
been closed as a precautionary measure. In Monday district, continuous
rain has triggered landslides, blocking over one hundred and seventy roads,
including three national highways. Ongoing downports are hampering recovery efforts,

(03:19):
making it difficult to restore normalcy. Government authorities have advised
residents across the market prodes to stay indoors unless absolutely necessary,
and to avoid traveling through hilly or landslide prone area.
In a recent filing submitted to the Office of Information
and Regularity Affairs on July seventeenth, the Department of Homeland

(03:41):
Security proposed introducing a weighted selection process for applicants under
the capped portion of the system because the number of
applicants far outstripped opening. A lottery system is currently used
to determine the beneficiaries. President Donald Trump and his supporters,
who have often clashed with high profile figures like Tesla's
CEO l On Musk over immigration policy. The VISA program

(04:03):
is a critical tool for US tech companies, allowing them
to hire high skill foreign workers, many of whom come
from India. Veli kakath Whu Saranka and achudan And, the
veteran communist leader, former Kerala Chief Minister and one of
the last towering figures of India's left movement, died on
Monday at the age of one hundred and one. Popularly

(04:25):
known as Vasachudanandan, was regarded as one of Kerala's most
charismatic and uncompromising politicians. Admired across party lines of his simplicity, integrity,
and fierce advocacy of the common man. His political career
spanning over eight decades made him not only a crowd
puller but also one of the most formidable voices of
the left in India. There is a satellite imagery to

(04:49):
suggest that India head Pakistan's Kirana Hills, one of the
storehouses of countries nuclear warhead, according to renowned OSINT expert
Damian Simon, replying to a quarry, Simon suggested that the
image indicates it was a warning strike without any subterranean
impact or penetration. During the Mini War between India and
Pakistan in May, India's retaliatory strikes, including those at Nourhan

(05:13):
Air Base in Chakala, made Islamabad called for a ceasefire.
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