The BJP and Shiv Sena have&nbsp;finalised the seat-sharing deal for the Maharashtra assembly elections.&nbsp;Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Sena president&nbsp;Uddhav Thackeray will announce the quantum of seat sharing. The Republican Party of India,&nbsp;Rashtriya Samaj Paksh, Shiv Sangram Sanghatna and Rayat Kranti&nbsp;Sena will be the other partners of the 'Mahayuti' or grand&nbsp;alliance.

The BJP and Shiv Sena have finalised the seat-sharing deal for the Maharashtra assembly elections. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Sena president Uddhav Thackeray will announce the quantum of seat sharing. The Republican Party of India, Rashtriya Samaj Paksh, Shiv Sangram Sanghatna and Rayat Kranti Sena will be the other partners of the 'Mahayuti' or grand alliance.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered the inaugural address at the India Global Week 2020, a virtual conference organised in the UK, which also featured a "never-seen-before" performance on the Aatma Nirbhar Bharat campaign, the Prime Mister's Office said. Themed 'Be The Revival: India and a Better New World', the event has 5,000 global participants from 30 nations and it will be addressed by 250 global speakers in 75 sessions. PM said that there is faith that the story of global revival and India will play a leading role.

Facing shortage of plasma donors, Delhi govt has now changed its policy on plasma donations making replacement mandatory. If a Covid-19 patient at any hospital needs plasma from the plasma bank they will have to first arrange for a replacement donor, the Delhi government has ordered. The onus for this will be on the nodal officer of the hospital raising the request. To arrange for plasma, the recipient hospital will have to contact one of its coronavirus patients who have recovered and been discharged, and request them to donate.

Soon after the arrest of UP gangster&nbsp;Vikas Dubey&nbsp;on Thursday, 9 July, Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav took to Twitter to say that the 'UP government should make it clear whether it is an arrest or surrender'.&nbsp;He also asked for the call detail record of his mobile phone to be made public so that the 'true collusion' in the case can be busted.&nbsp;Speaking to his UP counterpart on the arrest,&nbsp;Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh congratulated the MP Police, adding that for further probe, Dubey&nbsp;will be handed over to the UP Police, and both states are working in coordination. In another tweet, Shivraj&nbsp;said, those who think that their sins will be washed away by taking shelter in 'mahakal', don&rsquo;t know about 'mahakal' his&nbsp;government won't spare any criminal.
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Union health minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday said that there was no community transfer of Covid-19 in India yet. He added that 90% of the cases have been reported in eight states. His statement came as India saw record single-day surge of 24,879 cases, taking the caseload to 7,67,296 with Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Delhi, Telangana, UP and Andhra Pradesh contributing to around 75% of the new cases. Dr Harsh Vardhan also said that doubling rate has reached 21.8, adding that the mortality rate was at 2.75.

Prime minister Narendra Modi on Thursday&nbsp;praised UP's Covid-19 management. Addressing representative of NGOs from his constituency&nbsp;Varanasi, the PM said that UP has not only controlled the pace of infection, but also has an impressive recovery rate.

UP gangster Vikas Dubey, who was arrested by MP on Thursday morning, had gone to pray at the&nbsp;Mahakaal temple in Ujjain&nbsp;from where he was picked up by cops. News agency ANI reported that Dubey, who was wanted in the killing of eight cops in Kanpur, was identified by the temple&nbsp;security personnel who alerted the cops. MP minister Narottam Mishra also confirmed that Dubey was arrested from Mahakaal Temple. MP CM Shivraj Sing Chouhan also spoke to UP CM Yogi Adityanath after the arrest.

"Main Vikas&nbsp;Dubey hoon,&nbsp;Kanpur&nbsp;wala." The dreaded and most wanted UP gangster shouted into the ANI&nbsp;camera after being arrested by the Ujjain&nbsp;Police from Mahakaal&nbsp;Temple on Thursday morning. Dubey&nbsp;was arrested after a week-long chase across UP, Haryana and MP since the Kanpur&nbsp;massacre last week in which the gangster and his men killed eight cops in cold blood.&nbsp;

India has for the first time reported close to 25,000 new coronavirus cases in a single day. According to the health ministry data released on Thursday morning, the country clocked 24,879 new Covid-19 cases, which is the steepest one-day spike till now. The jump took India's Covid count to 7,67,296. At least 487 deaths were also reported during the same period to take the coronavirus death count to 21,129. More than 4.76 lakh people have recovered from the infection so far.

After a nearly week-long chase across three states, dreaded UP gangster Vikas Dubey was arrested from Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday&nbsp;morning. Dubey is the main accused in the cold-blooded killing of eight cops in an ambush in Kanpur last week. Eight policemen were killed last Friday when they went to arrest Dubey in Chaubeypur area of Kanpur. Vikas Dubey was caught in Ujjain around the same time two of his aides were killed in separate encounters in UP. His closest aide, Aman Dubey, was killed yesterday.

In a shocking case of negligence at AIIMS Delhi, bodies of two Covid patients were swapped while being taken for last rites. A Ghaziabad family was handed over the body of a Muslim woman who they cremated on Tuesday evening only to be told the next morning that the body was still lying in the hospital morgue. A probe by the AIIMS found that neither the staff nor the family checked the name tags on the body bags. A mortuary staff member has been sacked and another suspended for the shocking mix up.&nbsp;

Two aides of notorious UP gangster Vikas Dubey, who is the main accused in the cold-blooded killing of eight policemen last week in Kanpur, were chased by police and shot dead early Thursday morning in separate encounters in the state, officials said. Police said that one of the gangster's aide Prabhat Mishra, who was arrested on Wednesday, was shot while trying to escape the police custody. In a separate encounter in Etawah, Dubey's private gunner Babban Shukla was killed when he was trying to escape after stealing a car.

There is a shortage of the experimental antiviral drug Remdesivir across India, but especially in Delhi, with many scrambling to source it from other cities or buying it at exorbitant prices, the Hindustan Times has reported. An increase in Covid-19 cases around the country has seen more doctors prescribing the drug, but supply hasn&rsquo;t increased proportionately. Patients prescribed the drug are typically given six doses to be taken as injections. The Drug Controller General of India had on June 1 allowed Gilead Sciences, which holds the patent for Remdesivir, to start importing the medicine. Three Indian manufacturers &ndash; Hetero, Cipla, and Mylan-- have since been allowed to manufacture the drug in India.

The Indian Army has asked soldiers to delete 89 apps from their smartphones including Facebook, Instagram, SnapChat and several apps already banned by the government, news agency ANI&nbsp;has reported. The apps, including dating apps such as Tinder, OkCupid and Couch Surfing, have been banned for security reasons. The social media apps that are a no-go area for soldiers include messaging platforms, video-hosting sites, gaming and dating apps, and also some e-commerce options, the report added.

The Amarnath Yatra will be conducted in a staggered manner this year, with no more than 500 pilgrims allowed per day, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the government said on Wednesday evening. In a high-level meeting in Delhi, it was decided that the yatra to a shrine sacred to devotees of Lord Shiva would be allowed for a fortnight starting July 21. The shortened yatra will see Covid-19 specific SOPs in place, such as testing of people from outside Jammu and Kashmir and social distancing.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi late on Wednesday night called the family of the slain BJP leader in Jammu and Kashmir. PM Modi expressed his condolences to the family of Sheikh Wasim, BJP's Bandipora district president, who was shot by terrorists along with his father and bother on Wednesday. The killings are being seen as a major security failure. Reports said that none of the eight guards provided to Wasim as part of his security detail were present during the attack. They have been taken into custody for dereliction of duty and are being interrogated, reports added. The attack took place barely a few metres from a police station.

A BJP leader, his father and brother were shot dead by militants in Jammu and Kashmir's Bandipora district Wednesday night.&nbsp;Militants opened fire on Wasim Ahmad Bari, BJP district president, outside his shop near police station Bandipora at around 9 pm, the police said.&nbsp;Bari's brother Umar and father Bashir Ahmad were injured in the firing.&nbsp;They were taken to the Bandipora district hospital where they succumbed to injuries.&nbsp;

The Chinese military removed all temporary structures and completed withdrawal of its troops from the face-off site in Hot Springs in eastern Ladakh on Wednesday even as the Indian Army kept a close watch on the pull back and maintained a high-level of combat readiness in the region, PTI reported quoting sources.&nbsp;&nbsp;They&nbsp;news&nbsp;report said&nbsp;the two armies are expected to carry out a joint verification in the next few days to assess the implementation of the disengagement process once the dismantling of the temporary infrastructure and withdrawal of troops by China are completed at the friction points along the Line of Actual Control&nbsp;in eastern Ladakh.&nbsp;There has been thinning out of troops from Finger areas in Pangong Tso as well, they&nbsp;report said. Pangong Tso has been a major face-off site between the two sides.&nbsp;

The Ministry of External Affairs on Wednesday came down heavily on Pakistan over the Kulbhushan Jadhav case and said that the Indian national was coerced by the country to forego his rights.&nbsp;The MEA&rsquo;s reactions comes after Pakistan&rsquo;s claims that the 49-year-old retired Indian Navy officer refused to file a review petition and reconsideration of his death sentence and conviction. The MEA statement said in a brazen attempt to scuttle even the inadequate remedy&nbsp;Pakistan&nbsp;has refused to initiate review petition is a continuation of the farce that has been in play for the last four years.&nbsp;Despite our repeated requests, the MEA said that Pakistan continues to deny India free and unimpeded access to Jadhav.&nbsp;&nbsp;

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday accused China of taking 'incredibly aggressive action' in a recent confrontation with India along the LAC in eastern Ladakh's Galwan valley. Pompeo told reporters that the Indians have done their best to respond to that. He added he had spoken&nbsp;to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar many times about this. 20 personnel of the Indian Army were killed in violent clashes with Chinese troops in Galwan Valley on June 15. After high-level talks between the two armies and leaders, both India and China agreed to pull back from the contested spots earlier this week.

After the&nbsp;Central Board of Secondary Education&nbsp;announced that it has decided to reduce its syllabus for class 9 to 12 for academic session 2020-2021 by up to 30%, the board issued a clarification on the rationalization saying that it was a "one-time measure" owing to pandemic. The CBSE&nbsp;clarification comes in the backdrop of the education board facing criticism for its decision to&nbsp;drop key chapters&nbsp;like Democratic Rights, Federalism, Citizenship and Secularism from school courses.&nbsp;The Board stated that the objective behind the cut in syllabus is in order to reduce the examination stress of the students due to the current situation of coronavirus pandemic leading to health emergency circumstances as well as to "prevent learning gaps."&nbsp;

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