The peers in the Upper House of the UK Parliament held a debate over the impact of India's Citizenship (Amendment) Act. The House of Lords sought representations by the UK government to counterparts in India over arising concerns around minority rights. The debate in London on Tuesday evening called on the UK government to urge Prime Minister Narendra Modi to conduct a review of the CAA and its effects on Indian society. The UK government, in response, said it has been closely monitoring the situation as the act has "clearly been divisive in India" and there are some concerns over its full impact.

The peers in the Upper House of the UK Parliament held a debate over the impact of India's Citizenship (Amendment) Act. The House of Lords sought representations by the UK government to counterparts in India over arising concerns around minority rights. The debate in London on Tuesday evening called on the UK government to urge Prime Minister Narendra Modi to conduct a review of the CAA and its effects on Indian society. The UK government, in response, said it has been closely monitoring the situation as the act has "clearly been divisive in India" and there are some concerns over its full impact.

NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Tuesday rubbished reports of tensions within the ruling Maharashtra alliance. The veteran leader said that he met Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to discuss issues of the state, and there was no bickering within the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi. Reports about tensions in the coalition emerged after the home department's order of transfer of 10 deputy commissioners of police in Mumbai was rescinded. The Home portfolio is held by the NCP. Pawar also said he was happy with Thackeray's performance as chief minister.

A close aide of the gangster Vikas Dubey was shot dead in Himachal Pradesh&rsquo;s Hamirpur, police said. Dubey is involved in the killing of eight policemen in Kanpur and has been on the run since the incident last Friday. UP Police said that aide Amar Dubey was a co-accused in the Kanpur incident. The UP police has said that 40 teams and the special task force were on a hunt for dreaded gangster Vikas Dubey. The state police chief added that the force will not rest until Dubey is nabbed. There were reports that Vikas Dubey was spotted in a car with his men in Bijnor.

New satellite&nbsp;images have confirmed the withdrawal of the Chinese troops in Galwan Valley, NDTV has reported. Chinese and India troops are withdrawing by 2 km from three spots in Ladakh - Galwan Valley, Hot Springs and Gogra - leaving a buffer zone in between. Pictures taken in late June had indicated Chinese structures and troops at the bend of the&nbsp;Galwan river. The latest pictures show that the structures are now gone, the report said. The Chinese are now firmly on their end of the Line of Actual Control - the de-facto border between India and China, the report added quoting sources.

IT giant Infosys flew back some of its employees and their families who were stranded in the United States due to the coronavirus crisis and visa issues. They were flown back in a chartered flight. 200 people, employees and their families, were flown back to Bengaluru on Monday. They will be working from Bengaluru or other locations in India. "Compassionate capitalism at work!" Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani wrote on Twitter hailing the company's initiative.

Former Kanpur SP Anant Deo, who allegedly ignored a letter from slain DSP Devendra Mishra complaining about the nexus between policemen and notorious criminal Vikas Dubey, has been transferred by the Uttar Pradesh government. Deo, who is a Deputy Inspector General in the Special Task Force, has been shifted to the PAC in Moradabad. The move comes amid the churning in the police force in Kanpur following an ambush on Friday morning in which eight policemen, including DSP Mishra, died and six others were injured. Four policemen have been suspended over allegations that they leaked information to the criminal.

Telangana and Karnataka seem set to become the next hotspots in the country, with the highest growth rate of Covid-19 cases and high positivity rates, according to an analysis by the Hindustan Times. Telangana with close to 26,000 cases and Karnatakata with a little over 25,000 Covid cases are sixth and seventh worst hit Indian states respectively. Telangana also fares the worst in the country in terms of the percentage of tests coming back positive with a rate of 27.6%. The state also has the second worst testing only after Bihar. It has tested only just 3,000 for every million people while the national average is more that 7,500. Karnataka has reported the fastest growth of cases in the country.

India on Tuesday raised with the US its decision to withdraw US visas from foreign students if their universities switch to online-only classes.&nbsp;The issue was raised by Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan&nbsp;Shringla&nbsp;during an online meeting with US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale.&nbsp;Sources told PTI that the US side took note of it and said they will keep the best interests of the Indian students in mind and would try and mitigate the impact of the&nbsp;decision.It&nbsp;also conveyed to India that detailed guidelines for implementation of the decision are yet to come out.&nbsp;

India and the US on Tuesday deliberated on a host of bilateral, regional and global issues during an online meeting between Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan&nbsp;Shringla&nbsp;and US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale.&nbsp;The Ministry of External Affairs said the two sides also reaffirmed their commitment to work towards ensuring a free, open, peaceful and prosperous Indo-Pacific.&nbsp;The talks were held under the India-US Foreign Office Consultations. It is not immediately known whether the border row between India and China figured in the talks.&nbsp;The&nbsp;MEA said in a statement&nbsp;that&nbsp;Shringla&nbsp;and Hale exchanged views on a number of regional and global issues of shared interest.&nbsp;India and the US have been expanding cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region where China has been trying to expand its military and economic clout.&nbsp;

Dissident Akali leaders on Tuesday elected Rajya Sabha MP Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa as the&nbsp;Shriomani&nbsp;Akali Dal President at a meeting in Ludhiana, &lsquo;removing' Sukhbir Singh Badal from the top post.&nbsp;Dhindsa and his son and former state finance minister Parminder Singh Dhindsa were expelled from the SAD in February this year for "anti-party" activities.&nbsp;The Dhindsas joined hands with the party's dissident groups, including the SAD Taksali.&nbsp;However, SAD spokesman and senior leader Daljit Singh Cheema described the move as "illegal and fraud" and accused the expelled leader of acting at the behest of the Congress.

Dharavi, known as Asia's largest slum, reported only one new coronavirus patient on Tuesday which took the case tally in the densely populated area in the heart of Mumbai to 2,335.&nbsp;The last time Dharavi had recorded a single new coronavirus case was on April 5, three months ago.&nbsp;The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation however, did not share any latest information about COVID-19 deaths in the area.&nbsp;The BMC official said that Dharavi has only 352 active COVID-19 cases as 1,735 patients have been discharged from hospitals upon recovery.&nbsp;The first coronavirus case was found in Dharavi on April 1, 20 days after the first case was found in Mumbai.&nbsp;Some 6.5 lakh people are estimated to live in Dharavi which is spread over 2.5 square kilometres.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The West Bengal government on Tuesday decided to expand the areas under lockdown and impose tougher restrictions from July 9 to stem the relentless spike in COVID-19 cases, a senior official said. The containment zones and buffer zones around them will be clubbed together and constitute a "broad-based" containment zone where total lockdown will be imposed from 5 pm on Thursday. An order issues by the Additional Chief Secretary, Home stated that the&nbsp;broader containment zones may be subjected to strict lockdown and all offices, government and private, all non-essential activities, congregations, transportations and all marketing, industrial and trading activities be closed.&nbsp;The current phase of lockdown, in force till July 31, was largely limited to containment zones alone.&nbsp;

The owner of an India-based ventilator firm has hit out at Rahul Gandhi days after the Congress leader accused the Centre of procuring &ldquo;substandard&rdquo; equipment from the company.&nbsp;In an interview to news agency ANI,&nbsp;AgVa&nbsp;owner Diwakar&nbsp;Vaish&nbsp;said Rahul should have done due diligence and consulted doctors before making the claim in a tweet.&nbsp;&nbsp;

In the wake of Covid-19 pandemic, the government is planning to come up with a Standard Operating Procedure for shooting films. Speaking at 'FICCI FRAMES 2020',&nbsp; Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar&nbsp;said that to accelerate&nbsp;the film industry that has come to a standstill due to&nbsp;pandemic, govt is also coming up with incentives of production in all sectors, including TV serials, film-making, co-production, animation, gaming that will help the&nbsp;soft power of India to get back on its feet.&nbsp;
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Face masks and hand&nbsp;sanitisers&nbsp;will no longer be&nbsp;categorised&nbsp;as essential commodities as per a new order passed by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.&nbsp; The decision was taken after feedback from all stakeholders and no complaints were received from states regarding the availability of masks or hand&nbsp;sanitisers.&nbsp;The relaxation will help in free pricing, storage and marketing of the two products, which have been in high demand since the novel coronavirus became a serious threat in the country. Both the items were listed as essential commodities as there was a sudden spike in demand for these items and many instances of overcharging were reported during the&nbsp;coranavirus&nbsp;induced lockdown.&nbsp;

A top White Official has said that the&nbsp;United States&nbsp;military will stand strong with India in connection with the border dispute between India and&nbsp;China.&nbsp;White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows told Fox News that US&nbsp;was not going to stand by and let China or anyone else take the reins in terms of being the most powerful, dominant force, whether it&rsquo;s in that region or over in the country.&nbsp;Meadows made the remarks while responding to the border tensions between the two countries.&nbsp;Meadows&rsquo; statement comes three days after&nbsp;two US aircraft carriers were conducting exercises in the disputed South China Sea. China has also carried out military drills that have been criticised by the Pentagon and neighbouring states.&nbsp;

The Central Board of Secondary Education has reduced the syllabus for classes 9 to 12 for the academic year 2020-21 by up to 30 per cent to make up for academic loss caused due to Covid-19. Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal announced on Tuesday that suggestions from educationists across the country were sought to aid the decision on revising the syllabus. Schools across the country have been closed since March due to the pandemic.&nbsp;

MP Congress chief Kamal&nbsp;Nath&nbsp;sounded the poll bugle&nbsp;on Tuesday with a 'Loktantra&nbsp;bachao' rally, where hundreds of Congress workers showed up in violation&nbsp;of lockdown&nbsp;curbs.&nbsp;Congress workers raised slogans at the&nbsp;Badnawar&nbsp;event where hundreds of billboards greeted Kamal&nbsp;Nath.The ex-chief minister took a dig at the BJP&nbsp;saying that the public is intelligent and knows who is a tiger.&nbsp;
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Not everyone was sad or scared during the lockdown&nbsp;induced by a global pandemic. A&nbsp;pan-India online survey conducted by Centre for Marketing in Emerging Economies (CMEE) at Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow&nbsp;showed many were glad as they could spend ample time with family, the fact that they did not have to brace traffic to commute to work daily.&nbsp;13% of respondents across various online platforms like Facebook and LinkedIn, said they were happy, while&nbsp;56% of these happy people tried out new dishes and 38% talked over phone with friends and relatives, things they were not able to do earlier. The survey covered participants in 104 cities across 23 states across metros, tier-1 and tier-2 cities.

The Rajya Sabha secretariat has drawn up a protocol taking into account the Covid-19 situation for its Standing Committee meetings. Attendees must maintain social distancing and the protocol mandates that a distance of six feet be maintained between two people. Only two officials from a ministry or department would be allowed in the meeting. In case more than two officers are available, they will have to wait outside the meeting venue and can come in only taking turns. No hard copies of documents, papers, reports, etc. would be allowed to be brought to the meeting. Hand sanitisers, disposable gloves, face covers/masks would be made available for all members, secretariat staff and officials at the meetings.

The West Bengal government is mulling a 14-day total lockdown in North 24 Parganas on account of rise in fresh Covid-19 cases. The plan for fresh lockdown comes in the wake of a proposal from the North 24 Parganas district administration for a fresh containment plan. Bidhannagar, Barasat, Basirhat, Barrackpore and Bongaon municipal areas likely to come under the lockdown in that district. Proposal suggests closing of markets and public transport in the district, only stand alone shops to remain open. Govt yet to decide on the date of imposition of the fresh lockdown. It may review situation after 10 days from the date of fresh lockdown imposition. The Bengal govt is also mulling similar fresh lockdown in adjacent Kolkata and Howrah where fresh cases are also rising steeply.

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