Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has tested positive for COVID-19.
Haryana Assembly Speaker Gian Chand Gupta tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday, Health Minister Anil Vij confirmed. “The Assembly Speaker and two other MLAs have tested positive for coronavirus,” Anil Vij, who is also the state’s Home Minister, told PTI.
Notably, the Speaker has tested positive two days before the monsoon session of the Assembly starts on August 26. As a result, Deputy Speaker Ranbir Gangwa will be presiding over the House proceedings.
To address the leadership issue and decide if the Gandhis will continue to lead, a key Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting will take place today amid indications that its interim president Sonia Gandhi might offer to quit. After 23 Congress leaders wrote to Sonia Gandhi seeking to revamp, sources on Sunday said she might offer to step down in the CWC and ask the party to look for a full-time president. AICC media chief Randeep Surjewala, however, denied it. As the news of the letter spread, several leaders, including many MPs, wrote to Sonia Gandhi, either calling for her to continue or urging Rahul Gandhi to take charge.
UGC Guidelines 2020: The Supreme Court is likely to announce its final verdict on the petitions challenging the University Grants Commission (UGC) guidelines issued on July 6 exams before September 30 soon. In the last hearing held on August 18, the Supreme Court has reserved its judgment and had asked all the parties to file written submissions, if any, within a period of 3 days. This is now complete and it is expected that the court will now give its verdict.
In a shocking incident, a 16-year-old girl was sexually assaulted multiple times by her 35-year-old relative in Maharashtra’s Pune during the lockdown. The matter came to fore after the doctors in August confirmed that she is 18 weeks pregnant, police said.
The body of a BJP youth wing leader Soubhik Mukherjee was found at his residence in West Bengal’s Hooghly district, the police said on Sunday.
Claiming that Soubhik Mukherjee was under severe mental stress, the BJP alleged he was a victim of a conspiracy hatched against him by the local Trinamool Congress (TMC) leadership, a charge the ruling party has denied.
India has reported 61,408 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, 57,468 recoveries, and 836 deaths in the last 24 hours. With this, the total coronavirus tally has mounted to 31,06,349 including 23,38,036 cured/discharged/migrated cases & 57,542 deaths, according to the Union Ministry of Health.
A Chinese health official said on Sunday that China has approved the usage of its domestically developed but “unapproved” coronavirus vaccine for emergency use. The Chinese coronavirus vaccine would be used among people who are at high risk of getting infected in a limited period.
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People travelling from other states to Karnataka shall neither have to undergo the mandatory quarantine for 14 days nor register themselves on the Seva Sindhu portal, a revised government order on protocol for inter-state travellers said.
In Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting on Monday, it was decided that Sonia Gandhi will continue as the interim Congress president till a new chief is elected in an AICC session, which will be convened as and when the situation permits. It was also decided that a committee will be set up to assist Gandhi look into the issues raised in the letter by 23 leaders. Gandhi had, in the meeting, offered to quit the post asking the committee to initiate the process of electing a new chief to the party.
Several people are feared trapped under the debris after a five-storey building collapsed in Maharashtra's Raigad district.
2 days ahead of assembly session, Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar has been tested positive for coronavirus.
The government is likely to resume metro services across the country as part of unlock 4.0 guidelines. Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) will soon be releasing guidelines for the fourth phase of opening up of lockdown and is expected to allow the resumption of metro services, news agency PTI reported.
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) Chief and former Jharkhand CM, Shibu Soren admitted to Medanta hospital, Ranchi.
Sonia Gandhi will continue as the interim president of the Congress party for now. CWC meet ended in a deadlock with demands for change in the party leadership resulting in a stalemate and the Congress reverting to status quo.
A 21-year-old coronavirus patient died late Sunday night after jumping out of the fourth floor of a hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi. This was hours before he made a similar attempt to kill himself; at that time other patients intervened, preventing him from jumping and taking him back to his bed.
According to the reports, to accelerate the process of developing and manufacturing safe and effective Covid-19 vaccines in the country that can be easily accessible and affordable for the public, a 'Mission Covid Suraksha' has been proposed to be set up with a corpus of nearly Rs 3,000 crore.
Haryana Assembly Speaker Gian Chand Gupta tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday, Health Minister Anil Vij confirmed. "The Assembly Speaker and two other MLAs have tested positive for coronavirus," Anil Vij, who is also the state's Home Minister, told PTI. Notably, the Speaker has tested positive two days before the monsoon session of the Assembly starts on August 26. As a result, Deputy Speaker Ranbir Gangwa will be presiding over the House proceedings.
"Was informed by Rahul Gandhi personally that he never said what was attributed to him", says Kapil Sibal while withdrawing the tweet.
Ghulam Nabi Azad said that he would resign if he was in any manner doing this to help the BJP or doing it at its behest.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has raised serious concerns about the examinations urging the Centre to postpone them until the situation is conducive. The chief minister took to social media and wrote on the micro-blogging site Twitter, “In our last video conference with the Hon’ble PM Shri @narendramodi Ji, I had been vocal against the UGC guidelines mandating completion of terminal examinations in Universities/Colleges by the end of September 2020, which had a huge potential to put student lives at risk. Now with the directive of @EduMinOfIndia to conduct NEET, JEE 2020 in Sep, I would again appeal to the Centre to assess the risk and postpone these examinations until the situation is conducive again. It is our duty to ensure a safe environment for all our students.”
The condition of former President Pranab Mukherjee remains unchanged this morning. He is deeply comatose and is being treated for respiratory infection. His vital parameters are stable and he continues to be on ventilatory support: Army Hospital (R&R), Delhi Cantt
Bihar registered 2,247 new positive cases of COVID-19. With this, the total number of infections tally in the state has reached 1,22,156.
Sushant Singh Rajput's accountant Rajat Mewati was interrogated by the CBI on Sunday. He will be questioned today as well regarding the late actor's activities on June 13 and 14.
Sushant Singh Rajput's cook Neeraj reached the DRDO guesthouse for questioning for the fourth consecutive day. His statements are contradicting with Siddharth Pithani's statements even though both are the eye-witness of the crime.
Dipesh is also asked to appear before CBI today for interrogation.
Singer SP Balasubrahmanyam has tested negative for the novel coronavirus. His son, SP Charan, in a statement, confirmed the same and added that his father is stable in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at MGM Healthcare hospital in Chennai.
CBI summons actor Rhea Chakraborty, her father in the ongoing investigation os Sushant Singh Rajput death case.
UGC Guidelines 2020: The Supreme Court is likely to announce its final verdict on the petitions challenging the University Grants Commission (UGC) guidelines issued on July 6 exams before September 30 soon. In the last hearing held on August 18, the Supreme Court has reserved its judgment and had asked all the parties to file written submissions, if any, within a period of 3 days. This is now complete and it is expected that the court will now give its verdict.