After Maharashtra govt's decision to allow 16% for Marathas, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said he will move demanding quota for Muslims in govt jobs and education. The AIMIM said Muslims, deserve benefits of reservation as they have lived in poverty for generations. Patidar leader Hardik Patel is not far behind, he hit out at the centre, asking why the BJP government in Gujarat can't take the same step for his community.

Emphasising on service mentality among party workers, Prime Minister&nbsp;Narendra Modi&nbsp;on Saturday said for the&nbsp;BJP&nbsp;as an&nbsp;organisation is not just a machine to win elections, but &ldquo;it means serving the people, taking everybody along and ensuring everybody&rsquo;s happiness and prosperity&rdquo;. Addressing party workers from across the country on a virtual platform, Modi lauded the party leaders and the workers for the welfare works they have done during the lockdown and the corona crisis, but reminded them that everyone of them is in the public life to serve.

The number of Covid-19 cases in Maharashtra&nbsp;crossed the 2 lakh&nbsp;mark after it reported 7,074 cases on Saturday, its highest single-day spike so far. 295 deaths were reported in the state taking the total number of deaths to&nbsp;8,671. According to the state health department there are 83,311 active cases in Maharashtra&nbsp;while 10,80,975 people have been tested.&nbsp;

The army has refuted allegations that Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited a &lsquo;fake hospital&rsquo; during his Ladakh visit. &nbsp;Doubts were cast after pictures of the PM interacting with the soldiers injured in the Galwan clashes showed a projector hanging from the ceiling. With no doctors or nurses or IV drips in the ward, critics had called the facility a fake hospital. Calling the allegations malicious and unsubstantiated, the Army said the hall in which injured soldiers are admitted is an Audio-Video centre which was converted into a ward when the hospital was designated a Covid-19 centre. The Army also said it was unfortunate that aspersions are being cast on how are brave soldiers are treated. &nbsp;The visit was billed as PM's visit to a forward post but many on Twitter pointed that Nimu was a tourist destination and not a forward post as the Galwan Valley lies at least 200kms from the spot.

After 17 days of intense lockdown in&nbsp;Chennai&nbsp;and suburban&nbsp;areas,Tamil&nbsp;Nadu Chief Minister K&nbsp;Palaniswami&nbsp;on Saturday announced relaxations for&nbsp;the state capital&nbsp;while extending curbs for Madurai and nearby regions till July 12.&nbsp;Chennai, which is under tightened restrictions from June 19 to July 5 to help fight rising Covid-19 cases, would see easing of curbs from Monday.&nbsp;Vegetable shops and groceries could function from 6 am to 6 pm from the present 6 am to 2 pm in Chennai and suburban areas under the jurisdiction of Greater Chennai Police.&nbsp;The intense lockdown clamped from June 24 in Madurai city and several nearby areas,&nbsp;including&nbsp;Paravai&nbsp;Town Panchayat and a number of village panchayats, would continue to be on till July 12.&nbsp;

Congress leader Rahul&nbsp;Gandhi on Saturday cautioned the govt against ignoring Ladakhis&nbsp;raising their voices against China. He said the govt should listen to them as ignoring them will cost India dearly. Sharing a media report which quoted some locals as saying that China has occupied Indian territory in Ladakh, Rahul&nbsp;said that patriotic Ladakhis&nbsp;are raising their voice against Chinese intrusion, they are screaming&nbsp;a warning. He asked the govt to listen to those voices for the sake of country. On Friday, as a counter to govt's&nbsp;claim that Chinese had not occupied Indian land, Rahul&nbsp;Gandhi tweeted a video of Ladakhis&nbsp;saying that the Asian giant had occupied Indian territory.&nbsp;

The Indian Council of Medical Research on Saturday justified expediting clinical trials of a promising indigenous Covid-19 vaccine being developed by Bharat Biotech International Ltd. The apex medical body said on an ambitious timeline for India's first potential coronavirus vaccine that in the larger public health interest, it is important for ICMR to expedite clinical trials with a promising indigenous vaccine. The ICMR on Friday wrote to select medical institutions and hospitals to fast-track clinical trial approvals for the coronavirus vaccine candidate Covaxin being developed in collaboration with Bharat Biotech which it plans to release on August 15.

The Karnataka government has decided to clamp a 33-hours-long lockdown in capital city of Bengaluru and adjoining areas. The lockdown aimed at cutting the chain of Covid-19 transmissions in the region, will begin 8pm on Saturday and will end on 5am on Monday. Only essential services will be permitted to operate during the long period and those found roaming around will be liable for police action. The lockdown decision is part of a multi-pronged strategy adopted by the state government to contain the spread of the disease.

A large number of Indian-Americans living in New York and New Jersey staged a protest&nbsp;against China at the iconic Times Square. They&nbsp;chanted various patriotic slogans and&nbsp;demanded&nbsp;an economic boycott and a diplomatic isolation of the country for its aggression against India.&nbsp;The protesters, wearing face masks in view of the coronavirus pandemic, held placards paying tributes to the Indian soldiers killed in clashes with Chinese personnel in Ladakh.&nbsp;Members of the Tibetan and Taiwanese community also joined the protest and raised slogans against China and called for an economic boycott of the Communist giant.&nbsp;

Amid a surge in novel coronavirus cases in the country, Kolkata airport Saturday said that no passenger flights will land in West Bengal capital from six cities between July 6 and July 19. The Kolkata airport said on Twitter that flights from Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Pune, Nagpur and Ahmedabad have been barred. India resumed its domestic passenger flights from May 25, after a hiatus of two months due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown. Scheduled international passenger flights are still suspended in India.

After eight police personnel were shot dead by history-sheeter Vikas Dubey and his gang in Bikru village in Kanpur, authorities on Saturday reached the village along with a team and started to demolish the well-fortified house of the gangster. Police had got Vikas Dubey's father and his family along with servants to vacate the premises and cordoned off an area of 50 metre around the house before launching the demolition drive. Even the structures used to park vehicles within the compound have been demolished. Even the media has been barred from the area during the demolition drive at the house, which has not only 30- to 40-feet-high thick walls on the perimeter, but is also secured by concertina wire and 50 CCTVs.

The Union health ministry has revised the dosage of anti-viral drug remdesivir to be administered to coronavirus patients in the moderate stage of illness. It says that the drug should now be given for 5 days and not six as was the norm earlier. The drug, administered in the form of injection, should be given at a dose of 200 mg on day one followed by 100 mg daily for four days, the new treatment protocols stated. The Health Ministry on June 13 had allowed the use of remdesivir for restricted emergency use in moderate Covid cases.

The Income Tax Department has announced a further extension to the deadline for filing income tax return for the financial year 2019-20 to November 30. The department, in a tweet on Saturday, said that the move has been taken &ldquo;understanding and keeping in mind the times that we are in&rdquo; and hoped it will help taxpayers &ldquo;plan things better&rdquo;. This comes just a couple of days after the I-T department on Thursday extended the deadline for tax saving investments/payments for the financial year 2019-20 up to July 31.

More than 25 teams have been formed by the UP Police to arrest notorious criminal Vikas Dubey who was yet to be apprehended after eight police personnel were gunned down by criminals during an attempt to arrest him. Kanpur Inspector General of Police told PTI that the teams are conducting raids in different districts of the state and other states as well. Police officials also said the surveillance team was scanning over 500 mobile phones and efforts were on to retrieve information pertaining to Dubey, who has faced about 60 criminal cases.

For the last few days, India&rsquo;s novel Coronavirus numbers are being powered mainly by the surge in the four southern states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, The Indian Express has reported. All the four are now in the top ten list of states with maximum caseload in the country, and are the only states where the Coronavirus cases are growing at a rate faster than the national growth rate. While Maharashtra continues to contribute the maximum number of new cases every day, its rate of growth is still low. The four southern states, on the other hand, are contributing large numbers and have a high growth rate as well, the report added.

High tide hit Mumbai's Marine Drive on Saturday amid a heavy rainfall prediction. The BMC has warned people to stay away from the coast. The weather office has issued a red alert for Mumbai, Raigad and Ratnagiri in Maharashtra, forecasting "extremely heavy rainfall'' over the next 24 hours in many places in Palghar, Mumbai, Thane and Raigad districts. Almost every monsoon, Mumbai struggles to cope with the chaos caused by the rain. The suburban trains - the city's lifeline - are affected and low-lying areas get flooded.

A cop, allegedly drunk, ran his car over a woman on a busy street in Delhi on Friday. The CCTV footage of the incident shows a white car hitting a woman and then the driver, reportedly a sub inspector, speeding away through a group of people, crushing the woman under his wheels as the people chased the car. The accused sub inspector has been arrested and the woman, who was badly injured in the incident, is in hospital.

Chinese tech giant unicorn ByteDance Ltd is anticipating a loss of over $6 billion after three of its apps, including the hugely popular video app TikTok, were banned by India this week, a media report said. The $6 billion amount is most likely more than the combined losses for all the other Chinese apps banned by India, China's Caixinglobal.com reported, quoting sources close to the company's senior management. India banned 59 Chinese apps after the Galwan clash which left 20 Indian soldiers dead.

The Mars Colour Camera onboard ISRO's Mangalyaan has captured the image of Phobos, the closest and biggest moon of Mars. The image was taken on July 1 when Mars Orbiter Mission was about 7,200 km from Mars and 4,200 km from Phobos. "Spatial resolution of the image is 210 m. This is a composite image generated from 6 MCC frames and has been color corrected," ISRO said in an update along with the image. Phobos is largely believed to be made up of carbonaceous chondrites.

India recorded its steepest single-day spike of over 22,000 Covid-19 cases on Saturday. According to the health ministry data on Saturday morning, 22,771 new cases were recorded in the last 24 hours taking the country's Covid count close to 6.5 lakh. 442 new fatalities were recorded in the same period pushing the virus fatalities to 18,655. On the bright side, close to 4 lakh people have recovered so far from the contagion

Congress president Sonia Gandhi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding reservation for OBC students in state medical colleges under the all India quota of National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test or NEET. She has stated that OBC students have lost 11,000 seats since 2017 due to the denial of reservation. Gandhi said the denial of reservation to OBC students in state medical institutions is a barrier to access of medical education for deserving candidates.

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