Cafe Coffee Day founder VG Siddhartha is dead. His body&nbsp;was recovered from the Netravati&nbsp;river in Mangaluru on Wednesday morning. Siddhartha,&nbsp;who was missing since Monday night,&nbsp; was last seen on the bridge over the river and a massive manhunt was launched to find him. In his last email to CCD&nbsp;board and staff, the coffee tycoon has spoke of financial hardship and tax&nbsp;harassment by authorities. He had apologised to his staff for failing to create a good business model

Cafe Coffee Day founder VG Siddhartha is dead. His body was recovered from the Netravati river in Mangaluru on Wednesday morning. Siddhartha, who was missing since Monday night, was last seen on the bridge over the river and a massive manhunt was launched to find him. In his last email to CCD board and staff, the coffee tycoon has spoke of financial hardship and tax harassment by authorities. He had apologised to his staff for failing to create a good business model

Speaking to reporters at the daily media briefing , the govt said till July 8, a total of 6,79,831 Covid-19 tests have been conducted in Delhi. This means 35,780 tests were conducted per 10 lakh people and over 20,000 tests are being conducted daily. Referring to ICMR's letter to pharma company Bharat Biotech who are working on the Covid-19 vaccine with an August 15 deadline, the Health Ministry said the letter's intent was only to expedite duly approved clinical trials without compromising on safety and security concerns. When asked to confirm if the virus was airborne, the govt said the situation was dynamic and evolving and the govt is keeping abreast with the information coming from WHO headquarters in this regard.

As opposition attacked BJP governments in&nbsp;Madhya&nbsp;Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh over the scanty details of the arrest of&nbsp;gangster Vikas Dubey who was caught from a temple in Ujjain, a Congress leader has posted a video claiming that his arrest was stage managed.&nbsp;
The harshest attack on the MP government&nbsp;came from Srinivas BV, of the Indian Youth Congress, who brought to light a video circulating on social media that showed Vikas Dubey walking out of the temple barefoot, a private security guard walking along with him.&nbsp;
In a tweet, the youth Congress leader asked, from what angle does it appear that this terrorist Vikas Dubey has been arrested by the police? This was scripted. This video is the proof.&nbsp;

The National Green Tribunal has directed the Delhi government to comply with the Supreme Court order to levy sewerage charges on all households in the national capital for discharge of untreated effluents in Yamuna.&nbsp;The green panel noted that 2.3 lakh people in unauthorised colonies in Delhi have not taken sewage connection which was resulting in emission of pollutants in the river.&nbsp;The NGT said as per &ldquo;Polluter pays Principle, every individual&nbsp;household causing pollution by release of sewage into&nbsp;open environment or in the sewer network is&nbsp;liable for payment for its treatment. NGT&nbsp;chairperson Justice AK Goel, said the Delhi govt may forthwith comply with the order of&nbsp;the Supreme Court dated October 24, 2019.

The Delhi High Court on Thursday granted more time to the Delhi University to draw up a plan for conducting examinations for final year students studying in the varsity. A division bench of the High Court granted the time after advocate appearing for the varsity informed the court that a new plan has to be formulated in accordance with the latest UGC guidelines. The court has asked the varsity to file an affidavit&nbsp;by&nbsp;Monday and the matter has been posted for further hearing on July 14.&nbsp;On Wednesday, the High Court was informed by the Delhi University that it has postponed the online Open Book Examination till August 15. The exams were slated to commence from July 10.&nbsp;

After controversy over the removal of certain topics by CBSE in an exercise to reduce the syllabus for the current academic year, HRD&nbsp;Minister Ramesh&nbsp;Pokhriyal&nbsp;on Thursday&nbsp;said that&nbsp;there has been an "uninformed commentary" on the issue to portray a false narrative. The minister tweeted that while it is easy to misconstrue exclusion of 3-4 topics like nationalism, local government, federalism, etc and build a concocted narrative, a wider perusal of different subjects will show that this exclusion is happening across subjects. He also reiterated that it is a one-time measure taken due to the Covid-19 pandemic and to reduce the burden of students. CBSE&nbsp;has decided to reduce the syllabus for classes 9-12 by up to&nbsp;30% for 2020-21.&nbsp;

China on Thursday said Chinese and Indian troops have taken 'effective measures' to disengage at Galwan Valley and other areas along the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh. Days after the two sides agreed on an expeditious withdrawal of soldiers from all the standoff points, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said&nbsp;the situation is 'stable and improving'. The remarks by the Chinese came a day after people in New Delhi familiar with the developments said that the Chinese military removed all temporary structures and completed withdrawal of its troops from the face-off site in Hot Springs in eastern Ladakh.

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.

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