In pictures: Top developments you should know about

Here's a quick look at latest updates on Indo-China front, RIL's retail arm, Rafale fighter jets and more

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The Indian Air Force inducted the newly acquired Rafale fighter jets into its fold on Thursday. The jets that flew into India from France on July 29 have been inducted into the Golden Arrows squadron of the IAF at the Ambala airbase.

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The Indian Army has put up barbed wires at heights under its control at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) bordering Ladakh, signalling to the Chinese that they must not enter its territory. China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) has made multiple attempts to take over Indian-held positions, sources told IANS.

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India saw its worst-ever single-day spike of 95,529 coronavirus cases. With this, India's tally has surged past the 4.4-million mark to 4,465,863.

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From San Francisco to Seattle, people in vast parts of the US woke on Wednesday to hazy clouds of smoke lingering in the air, darkening the sky to an eerie orange glow that kept street lights illuminated into midday, all thanks to dozens of wildfires throughout the West.

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Mukesh Ambani-led oil-to-telecom conglomerate Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) is offering to sell roughly $20 billion worth of stake in its retail arm, Reliance Retail, to Amazon, BloombergQuint reported on Thursday, citing Bloomberg News.

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With greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at record levels, emissions heading in the direction of pre-pandemic levels, and the world set to see its warmest five years on record, the threat from climate change is as grave as ever, the United in Science 2020 report says.

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After India’s real GDP contracted by a record 24 per cent in Q1, global and domestic rating agencies have sharply cut their forecast for India’s economic growth this fiscal year.

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The United Nation’s labour body has warned that about 400 million people working in the informal economy in India are likely to be poverty-stricken due to the coronavirus crisis which is having “catastrophic consequences”, and is expected to wipe out 195 million full-time jobs or 6.7 per cent of working hours globally in the second quarter of this year.