In a series of quick developments, Delhi's&nbsp;Aam Aadmi Party suspends Councilor Tahir Hussain from the primary membership of the party on Thursday. This after the&nbsp;Delhi Police booked him for his alleged involvement in the murder of an IB officer Ankit Sharma&nbsp;during the Northeast Delhi violence.&nbsp;Ankit Sharma, who worked for the Intelligence Bureau, had gone missing on Tuesday and his body was found in a drain near his home in northeast Delhi's riot-hit Chand Bagh area on Wednesday. His family members claim that the local councillor and his associates were behind the killing. But the&nbsp;AAP leader&nbsp;denied any involvement in the riots or the killing of the officer saying the accusations are baseless.&nbsp;

In a series of quick developments, Delhi's Aam Aadmi Party suspends Councilor Tahir Hussain from the primary membership of the party on Thursday. This after the Delhi Police booked him for his alleged involvement in the murder of an IB officer Ankit Sharma during the Northeast Delhi violence. Ankit Sharma, who worked for the Intelligence Bureau, had gone missing on Tuesday and his body was found in a drain near his home in northeast Delhi's riot-hit Chand Bagh area on Wednesday. His family members claim that the local councillor and his associates were behind the killing. But the AAP leader denied any involvement in the riots or the killing of the officer saying the accusations are baseless.

PTI, Bengaluru:&nbsp;The Karnataka government on Wednesday announced that an incentive of Rs 5,000 would be given to people who have recovered from the coronavirus infection and are willing to donate plasma to help cure other Covid-19 patients.
Highlighting that 17,390 people have recovered in the state out of which 4,992 are in Bengaluru, medical education minister K Sudhakar appealed to the recovered patients to donate plasma and save lives.
"Please don't take it otherwise.. we have decided to give an incentive of Rs 5,000 to the donor.
Please come forward voluntarily and help the patients recover by way of donating plasma," Sudhakar said during the daily briefing on the Covid-19 situation.
To a question on plasma therapy tried in Karnataka, Sudhakar said five patients were subjected to the therapy of which three recovered while it did not work on two patients who were already on their death bed.
"We have a proven information that for Covid-19 patients, plasma transfusion definitely works to a greater extent.
That's why the government has issued the order of giving an incentive of Rs 5,000," Sudhakar told reporters.
Cautioning private hospitals not to fudge the records and give contradictory statements with their press briefings, the minister said private establishments and the government should come together and contain the pandemic.
He warned private hospital owners that government would take over their hospitals if they put out wrong data about availability of beds to treat coronavirus patients.
The warning came a day after the government said that criminal proceedings would be initiated against two reputed private hospitals for not cooperating with the government in COVID care.
The government shut down the out-patient department of the two hospitals for two days as a warning to them.
On the strike by doctors at the Jagadguru Jayadeva Murugarajendra Medical College for alleged non-payment of their stipend for many months, Sudhakar said the government has taken a serious note of it and it will be released to the students in three to four days with arrears.
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In a bid to reduce the mortality rate among patients who are above 60 years, the Tamil Nadu government has allowed a pilot project to study the&nbsp;bacille&nbsp;calmette-guerin&nbsp;or BCG vaccine.&nbsp;&nbsp;
 The National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis will start the pilot&nbsp;programme&nbsp;and according to the state&rsquo;s health minister&nbsp;C.&nbsp;Vijayabaskar&nbsp;the vaccine&nbsp;will help reduce the mortality rate among elderly Covid-19 patients.&nbsp; &nbsp; Vijayabaskar&nbsp;said the&nbsp;BCG vaccine will be administered on a trial basis to people in the 60-95 age group.&nbsp;
The health minister claimed that&nbsp;the BCG vaccine was found to boost innate immunity, which could lower morbidity and mortality rates.&nbsp;
He added the&nbsp;BCG vaccine could reduce the severity of Covid-19, avoid&nbsp;hospitalisation&nbsp;and mortality rate.

PTI, Jaipur:&nbsp;Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday accused rebel Congress leader Sachin Pilot of involvement in horse trading with the BJP to topple his government in the state.
Pilot was removed from the posts of the Rajasthan deputy chief minister and the state Congress president on Tuesday amid a tussle for power with Gehlot.
On Tuesday too, the CM had accused the rebel leader of playing into the hands of the BJP, which he said wanted a repeat of the Madhya Pradesh episode where the Congress government collapsed in March after a rebellion by Jyotiraditya Scindia.
In an interaction with reporters here on Wednesday, the chief minister, however, did not mention Pilot by his name but said the "former Pradesh Congress Committee president" was himself &ldquo;doing the deal&rdquo;.
&ldquo;We have the proof that horse trading was being committed. Money was offered. And who gave the clarification that nothing was happening? Those who were themselves part of the conspiracy are giving clarifications,&rdquo; he said.
&ldquo;Our deputy chief minister and PCC president himself was doing the deal and was giving statements that no horse trading was taking place. What clarifications are you giving when you yourself were involved in it,&rdquo; Gehlot added.
While mentioning that he (Pilot) has been a Union minister and the state Congress chief, Gehlot said he would have performed well for the nation had he gone through "struggle in his youth".
Gehlot also said Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and he himself love the youth.
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PTI, New Delhi:&nbsp;In view of the border row with China in eastern Ladakh, the defence ministry on Wednesday granted special powers to the three services for individual capital procurement programme worth Rs 300 crore to meet emergent operational requirements, officials said.
They said there was no cap on the number of procurement programmes and that each acquisition under the emergency requirement category should not cost more than Rs 300 crore.
The decision was taken at a meeting of the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) headed by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.
"The DAC delegated the powers for progressing urgent capital acquisition cases of up to Rs 300 crore to the armed forces to meet their emergent operational requirements," the defence ministry said in a statement.
The decision, it said, will shrink the procurement timelines and ensure placement of orders within six months and commencement of deliveries within one year.
It said the special meeting of the DAC was convened considering the prevailing security environment along the northern borders and the need to strengthen the armed forces for the defence of the country's borders.
The three services have started buying a range of military equipment, weapons and platforms in the last few weeks in the midst of the tense border row with China in eastern Ladakh.

PTI, New Delhi: The Indian military conveyed a &lsquo;very clear&rsquo; message to the Chinese army during a nearly 15-hour-long talks that status quo must be restored in eastern Ladakh and it will have to follow all mutually agreed protocols for border management to bring back peace and&nbsp;tranquillity&nbsp;along the Line of Actual Control, government sources said on Wednesday.&nbsp;
 During the course of the intense and complex negotiations between senior commanders of the two armies that ended at 2 am on Wednesday, the Indian delegation also apprised the Chinese PLA about the "red lines" and conveyed that the onus was largely on China to improve the overall situation in the region, the sources said.&nbsp;
The two sides agreed on certain modalities for rolling out the next phase of disengagement and are expected to get in touch with each other after discussing agreed points with the higher authorities of both sides, the sources said.&nbsp;
 The fourth round of Lt General-level talks began around 11 AM on Tuesday at a designated meeting point in&nbsp;Chushul&nbsp;on the Indian side of the LAC, they said. There was no official word on the outcome of the talks.&nbsp;
The Indian delegation was led by Lt Gen Harinder Singh, the Commander of the Leh-based 14 Corps, while the Chinese side was headed by Major General Liu Lin, Commander of the South Xinjiang military region.&nbsp; Army Chief Gen MM&nbsp;Naravane&nbsp;was apprised about the details of the negotiations following which he held discussions with senior military officers. He is scheduled to hold another meeting with a number of senior military officers later in the day.&nbsp;
Tuesday's discussions were the longest negotiations between the two armies after the tense standoff that began on May 5. The third round of Lt General-level talks on June 30 lasted 12 hours. During this round, both sides agreed on an "expeditious, phased and step wise" de-escalation as a "priority" to end the standoff.&nbsp;
The sources said the main focus of the latest round was on&nbsp;finalising&nbsp;a framework for a "time-bound and verifiable" disengagement process from all the friction points like Pangong Tso and&nbsp;Depsang&nbsp;and pulling back large numbers of troops and weapons from rear bases along the LAC as part of modalities for further de-esalation.&nbsp;
"It was clearly conveyed to China that it must follow all the relevant provisions of agreements and protocols that govern management of the border by both the sides," they said.&nbsp;
The Indian side insisted on "total restoration" of status quo ante in all areas of eastern Ladakh prior to May 5 when the standoff began following a clash between the troops of the two countries in Pangong Tso, they said.&nbsp;
The Indian delegation also conveyed concerns over China's "new claim lines" in the region, and insisted that Beijing must adhere to earlier framework on carrying out patrolling in the areas, the sources said.&nbsp;
The talks took place days after implementation of the first phase of the disengagement process from the friction points.&nbsp;

Addressing a press conference on the ongoing crisis in Rajasthan government, senior Congress leader Randeep Surjewala said, the Congress has asked&nbsp;Sachin Pilot and other party MLAs to keep their differences before the party and that they are ready to listen with an open mind. He urged Pilot to stop talking via the media and leave hotels of the Khattar&nbsp;govt.
"We saw media statements where you (Sachin Pilot) have said that you are not going to BJP. If it is so, leave the hotels of Haryana's Khattar government, stop talking to BJP members. Stop talking via media. Come to the party and keep things before us directly," Surjewala said during the press conference.
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Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot took a swipe at Sachin Pilot saying, being handsome or speaking good English isn't everything. "Speaking good English, giving good bytes and being handsome isn't everything. What is inside your heart for the country, your ideology, policies, and commitment, everything is considered," he said. Gehlot added that it is wrong to say that the newer generation is not appreciated within the Congress party. He added, he struggled a lot 40 years ago in Youth Congress and NSUI, but the new generation is welcome and the party's future is in their hands. Sachin Pilot, was shown the door after he failed to attend the CLP meetings for two consecutive days.

New Delhi, PTI: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said the current COVID-19 situation in the national capital is better than what it was in June, but the war against the disease has not been won yet.
He said had the Delhi government fought the virus alone, it would have "failed" and therefore his dispensation sought cooperation from the BJP-led Centre, NGOs, and other organisations.
"Our first principle was that this fight cannot be won alone," Kejriwal said.
The chief minister said the AAP government will continue its preparations to deal with any spike in COVID-19 cases.
Addressing an online media briefing, the chief minister said according to the Centre's formula, Delhi was expected to have 2.25 lakh cases by July 15, but at present, there are only 1.15 lakh cases.
As the COVID-19 cases had started rising in the first week of June, it was expected that there would be 1.34 lakh active cases by July 15,&nbsp; but till date, there are only 18,600 active cases in the city.
"We are in better situation today, as compared to June, but it does not mean we have won the war (against COVID-19). We have yet to go a long way.
"There may be a spike again in COVID-19 cases. We don't have to be complacent. We will not sit idle. We will have to be fully prepared," Kejriwal said.
The 'Delhi Model', which was recently praised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is based on collective efforts by the AAP government, the Centre, other organisations and all political parties, he said and thanked the BJP the and Congress for their cooperation.
The chief minister said the Delhi government worked on three principles after realising that the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic cannot be won alone.
"If the Delhi government had thought it would win the fight against coronavirus alone, we would have failed. Our first principle was that this fight cannot be won alone.
"Our second principle was that we did not criticise our critics for their views about our work. We improved things after somebody flagged it. The third principle was that we did not accept defeat. Had we accepted defeat, there would have been a surge in the numbers of deaths," he also said.
According to Kejriwal, the government scaled up testing for COVID-19 aggressively and daily 20,000 to 23,000 tests are being conducted in Delhi.
"The COVID-19 situation is under control, but we will continue our preparations against the virus," he said.
Lauding his government's home-isolation policy, he said due to it, people are coming forward in large numbers to undergo tests.
"There are 15,500 beds in COVID-19 care facilities. On June 1, we had only 300 ICU beds, but today, we have 2,100 ICU beds out of which 1,000 have so far been occupied," he said.
On Tuesday,&nbsp;Delhi recorded 1,606 fresh coronavirus cases, taking the tally in the city to over 1.15 lakh, while the death toll from the disease mounted to 3,446. PTI BUN TDS TDS

Speaking at the company's annual general meeting, RIL Chairman confirmed that Google and Jio will collaborate to make a high quality, low cost 4G smartphone. "Jio is determined to make India 2G-mukt," said Ambani. Ambani said, Reliance has sold 100 million Jio Phones till date, but there are many feature phone users waiting to upgrade to a conventional smart phone. He added Reliance can fill that gap by designing an entry level 4G or even a 5G smart phone, at a fraction of the current cost. The smartphone that will be built jointly by Google and Jio will run on the Android Operating System. &ldquo;People in India no longer have to wait for technology to come for you. Smartphones and affordable data have made it possible for a billion Indians to come online. We have never been more hopeful about India&rsquo;s future,&rdquo; Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in a video message.

Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa is set to join the Philippines-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) as vice president. Lavasa still has over two years left in his term at the Election Commission of India. He would have retired as the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) in October 2022. Lavasa's premature exit as Election Commissioner would only be the second in EC's history, and puts his colleague Sushil Chandra next in the line of succession. Reports say his appointment to the ADB was finalised with the approval of the union government.

Weighing in on the political crisis in Rajasthan, senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily&nbsp;backed Rajasthan&nbsp;Chief Minister Ashok&nbsp;Gehlot, and hinted that rebel leader Sachin Pilot should have patiently waited for his turn to become CM, working from within to bolster the party. The former Karnataka Chief Minister and union minister said, aspiring youth of today don't have patience and they need to have more perseverance. He added&nbsp;party general secretaries put in charge of states are not doing their job, and called&nbsp;for revamp to strengthen the Sonia Gandhi-led party. Moily&nbsp;said&nbsp;Congress general secretaries in charge of States are not 'vigilant' and don't understand the problems faced by local party units. He added that Rajasthan-type crisis can be easily be prevented
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In a gamechanger&nbsp;for India, Reliance&nbsp;Jio unveiled its 5G roadmap, at the virtual&nbsp;&nbsp;AGM&nbsp;addressed by RIL&nbsp;chairman Mukesh&nbsp;Ambani. Setting a&nbsp;precedent&nbsp;for Atmanirbhar&nbsp;Bharat, Ambani&nbsp;said that&nbsp;Jio's&nbsp;5G solutions&nbsp;are fully made and developed in India&nbsp;and will premiere for consumers in 2021.&nbsp;
"The time has come for services made in India to fully go global," he said.
Mukesh&nbsp;Ambani&nbsp;said,&nbsp;Jio has designed and developed a complete 5G solution from scratch.&nbsp;The made-in-India technology can be deployed and launched in a years&rsquo; time once spectrum is available.&nbsp;Jio can easily upgrade its 4G network to 5G , since it is all-IP network architecture, and finally, once proven in India, Jio Platforms would be well positioned to be an exporter of 5G solutions to other telecom operators globally, as a complete managed service.&nbsp;

A day after sacking him from the posts of deputy CM and Rajasthan Congress chief, the Congress' on Wednesday said that the doors have not closed for Sachin Pilot.
On a day that Pilot refuted reports of him joining the BJP saying he is still with the Congress, the party's national general secretary and Rajasthan in-charge Avinash Pande tweeted: "May God give... good sense and he realises his mistake. I pray that he comes out of the elusive trap of BJP".
Earlier in the day, Pilot and other rebel MLAs were served disqualification notices by the Assembly speaker for revolting against the party and skipping the MLAs meets.
Pilot has said that he worked very hard to bring the Congress back in power in Rajasthan and clarified that he is not joining the BJP. He added those spreading the rumours want to tarnish his image in the eyes of the Gandhis.&nbsp;

West Bengal police have arrested one person in connection with the death of BJP MLA Debendra Nath Roy, whose body was found hanging, near his home on Monday. The CID has taken Niloy Singh, whose name was written in the suicide note found in Roy's pocket, in custody. The death has triggered a bitter war between the BJP and the Trinamool with the saffron party alleging murder and attacking the ruling party for spiralling law and order in the state. The Trinamool has hit back at the BJP for politicising a suicide case. Both the parties have also met President Ram Nath Kovind with their representation on the case.

HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank along with Minister of State for HRD, Sanjay Dhotre launched a low-cost Covid-19 test developed by Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT) Delhi on Wednesday.&nbsp;Called 'Corosure', the test is being dubbed as the world&rsquo;s most affordable probe free RT-PCR based Covid-19 diagnostic kit, however the price has not been made public yet. The test kit uses an alternative method for testing Covid-19 samples and is being launched by Delhi-based pharma&nbsp;company&nbsp;Newtech Medical Devices. As per reports, the test kit can be used to conduct two million tests per month at an extremely affordable cost.&nbsp;The product, has been approved by the&nbsp;ICMR and the&nbsp;DCGI.
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PTI, New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday launched a fierce attack on the government's foreign policy, saying the country is losing power and respect everywhere and the current dispensation does not know what to do.
"India's global strategy is in tatters. We are losing power and respect everywhere and the Government of India has no idea what to do," he tweeted.
He cited a media report that claimed that Iran has dropped India from the Chabahar rail project, citing funding delays.
The former Congress president has been attacking the government on its foreign policy and the Congress party has been alleging that it has failed.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that the coronavirus pandemic has presented new challenges for the world which everyone needs to be prepared for. Addressing a digital conclave on World Youth Skills Day, PM Modi also presented a new mantra for the youth to stay relevant in the time of crisis and empowers them. Stressing that it is very important to stay relevant in the current time, PM said "the mantra is: Skill, re-skill and upskill.&rdquo;

The results of over 18.89 lakh students who registered to appear for the class 10 board exams has been declared. There has been a marginal increase in pass percentage since last year, 91.46% students passed the class 10 exam.&nbsp;
This year, Trivandrum has emerged as the best performing district with 99.28%, followed by Chennai with 98.95% and Bengaluru with 98.23%.
Students can&nbsp;check their results at&nbsp;cbse.nic.in&nbsp;or&nbsp;cbseresults.nic.in. The results will also be available at&nbsp;Digi locker and Umang app.
The CBSE class 10 results 2020 are special because this year, the marks have been awarded without conducting all the exams.
In a tweet, HRD&nbsp;Minister Ramesh&nbsp;Pokhriyal&nbsp;Nishank&nbsp;congratulated&nbsp;parents, teachers &amp; students,&nbsp;for making it possible. He reiterated, students' health &amp; quality education is a priority.

PTI, New Delhi: The fourth round of India-China military talks to discuss the border tension lasted for close to 15 hours. The marathon meeting between Lt Gen level officers that started at 11:30 am on Tuesday ended around 2 am on Wednesday.
The Indian delegation was led by Lieutenant General Harinder Singh, commander of the Leh-based 14 Corps, while Major General Liu Lin, commander of the South Xinjiang military region, was led the Chinese side.
The key focus of the talks was on rolling out the phase two of the disengagement process. Also on the table reportedly was firming up modalities for withdrawal of forces and weapons from the rear bases in a time-bound and verifiable manner. Reports quoting sources said that the aim is the further de-escalation of the situation at various friction points.
The third round of military talks on June 30 lasted for 12 hours.
The talks are taking place days after implementation of the first phase of the disengagement process from the friction points.
China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) has already completed pulling back troops from Gogra, Hot Springs and Galwan Valley and significantly thinned down its presence in the ridgeline of Finger Four in the Pangong Tso area in the last one week as demanded by India.
In line with a mutually agreed decision, the two sides created a minimum buffer zone of three kilometres in most of the friction points where they were locked in a standoff.
The formal process of disengagement of troops began on June 6, a day after a nearly two-hour telephonic conversation between National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on ways to bring down tension in the area.

Former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot, who was removed as the president of Congress&rsquo; state unit on Tuesday, has said that he is not going to join the BJP. &ldquo;I am not joining BJP. Those saying that are just trying to lower me in the eyes of Gandhis,&rdquo; he told Hindustan Times.
Pilot also cancelled a press conference scheduled for Wednesday morning. Pilot&nbsp; insisted that he is still with the Congress&nbsp;amid reports that he is in serious talks with senior BJP leaders.
Sachin Pilot and other rebel Congress MLAs from Rajasthan have been issued disqualification notice by the Assembly speaker. The move comes a day after Sachin Pilot was sacked as deputy CM and state party chief after his open rebellion. The speaker has asked the leaders to respond by Friday to the disqualification notices.
A meeting of Congress MLAs on Tuesday had unanimously&nbsp;resolved to sack Pilot and his supporters after the attempted to topple the Gehlot govt. The chief minister, who has the support of close to 100 MLAs is banking on Pilot and his supporters' disqualification from the Assembly, which will bring down the majority mark in case of a floor test.
Moments after party's action against him on Tuesday,Sachin&nbsp;Pilot took to twitter and wrote that &lsquo;truth can be troubled, cannot be defeated&rsquo;.
The 42-year-old leader, who didn&rsquo;t attend a second meeting of Congress legislature party on Tuesday, also&nbsp;changed his twitter bio. The action against, Pilot, who is campaign in the national capital, comes after he also skipped the legislative meet on Monday. Over 100 MLAs&nbsp;had turned up for the meet on Monday, which passed a resolution backing Pilot's rival and chief minister Ashok&nbsp;Ghelot. The Congress after the Monday's meeting had left the door open for Pilot and had requested him to join the Tuesday's meeting in Jaipur.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; In his changed twitter bio, the former minister at the Centre,&nbsp;has removed the designation of Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister and state&nbsp;president. Besides other information, Pilot&rsquo;s bio now reads that his is an MLA from&nbsp;Tonk.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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