The Home Ministry has given its go ahead to the Delhi govt to double the number of Covid-19 tests conducted daily in the national capital, Delhi's Health Minister Satyendar&nbsp;Jain said on Friday. He claimed that even though Chief Minister Arvind&nbsp;Kejriwal&nbsp;had given his permission to double the testing, officials did not implement it due to pressure from the Home Ministry. The ministry has denied these allegations.&nbsp;The health minister said the AAP govt is committed to doubling the COVID-19 test from the present 20,000 per day to 40,000 per day within a week. The decision comes as Delhi saw a marginal increase in the number of coronavirus cases.&nbsp;Jain said the increase&nbsp;was due to various reasons, including patients from outside seeking treatment here, return of migrants who left Delhi during lockdown as well as increased testing.

The Home Ministry has given its go ahead to the Delhi govt to double the number of Covid-19 tests conducted daily in the national capital, Delhi's Health Minister Satyendar Jain said on Friday. He claimed that even though Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had given his permission to double the testing, officials did not implement it due to pressure from the Home Ministry. The ministry has denied these allegations. The health minister said the AAP govt is committed to doubling the COVID-19 test from the present 20,000 per day to 40,000 per day within a week. The decision comes as Delhi saw a marginal increase in the number of coronavirus cases. Jain said the increase was due to various reasons, including patients from outside seeking treatment here, return of migrants who left Delhi during lockdown as well as increased testing.

The Army has flagged concerns about faulty ammunition and armament supplied by the Ordnance Factory Board causing army casualties and bleeding the exchequer, the Hindustan Times has reported. An internal army assessment shows that 403 accidents over the last six years have resulted in the deaths of 27 soldiers and a loss of Rs 960 crore. The army report has further stated that some friendly foreign countries had even refused to accept OFB products on the grounds of quality. The Army has suggested corporatisation of the Ordnance Factory Board as the only way forward, the report added.

The family of the 19-year-old Dalit woman from UP's Hathras, who died in a Delhi hospital a fortnight after she was gang-raped, has alleged that police forcibly cremated her body without their consent. The police have denied the allegation and insisted the cremation was done as per the wishes of the family. India Today journalist reporting from Hathras posted videos and photographs of the woman's pyre and reported that the body was forcibly burnt by the cops after her locking the family members inside their house.

The number of Covid-19 recoveries in the country has crossed 51 lakh, the health ministry has said. The govt added that it is the highest number of recoveries from the contagion in the world. India took 57 days to go from one lakh to 10 lakh recoveries, union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan said on Tuesday. However, he added that the last 10 lakh recoveries were recorded in just 11 days. India has for the last many days consistently seen more recoveries that daily new cases.

A special CBI court in Lucknow will deliver the much-awaited judgment in the 1992&nbsp;Babri&nbsp;Masjid demolition case in which BJP veterans L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi are among the accused on Wednesday.&nbsp;CBI judge SK Yadav had on September 16 directed all the&nbsp;32 surviving&nbsp;accused to remain present in the court on the day of the judgment.&nbsp;The accused include former deputy prime minister Advani, former Union ministers Joshi and Uma Bharti, former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh, besides Vinay Katiyar and Sadhvi&nbsp;Rithambara.&nbsp;With both Bharti and Singh convalescing in separate hospitals after coronavirus infection, it&nbsp;is highly unlikely&nbsp;that&nbsp;they would be present in the court at the time of pronouncement of order.&nbsp;Singh, during whose tenure as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh the disputed structure was demolished, was put on trial in September last year after his tenure as governor of Rajasthan came to an end.&nbsp;Champat&nbsp;Rai, the general secretary of the trust in charge of constructing the Ram temple, is also among those accused.&nbsp;

With the Supreme Court setting August 31 as the deadline and later extending it by a month for the CBI court to give its verdict&nbsp;in&nbsp;Babri&nbsp;demolition, the trial court started day-to-day hearing to complete the task in time.&nbsp;The central agency produced 351 witnesses and 600 documents as evidence before the court. Charges were framed against 48 people, but 17 have died during the course of trial.&nbsp;The trial under the serious criminal conspiracy charges commenced against the&nbsp;accused&nbsp;after having been dropped by the trial court in 2001. The verdict was upheld by the Allahabad High Court in 2010, but the apex court ordered restoration of the conspiracy charge against them on April 19, 2017.&nbsp;The top court ordered daily hearing in the high-profile case and directed the special judge to conclude it in two years.&nbsp;&nbsp;Before the 2017 verdict of the apex court, two sets of cases were being heard in Lucknow and Raebareli.&nbsp;

The Centre has alerted all States to strengthen security arrangements in communally hyper-sensitive and sensitive districts to prevent possible clashes post the judgment in the&nbsp;Babri&nbsp;Masjid demolition case by a&nbsp;special court for CBI cases in Lucknow.&nbsp;In an alert, the Centre said that the judgment could have an impact on the law and order situation, as fringe elements on both sides might&nbsp;communalise&nbsp;the verdict. The Hindu reported that according to the alert, many Muslim&nbsp;organisations, unhappy with the&nbsp;Supreme Court&rsquo;s verdict on the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit case, were hoping that justice could still be done by convicting the accused in the demolition case.&nbsp;The alert said they&nbsp;might resort to protests if the verdict was not what they were hoping for.&nbsp;

The Indian Council Medical Research's second national&nbsp;sero-survey report has revealed that one in 15 individuals aged more than 10 years were estimated to be exposed to&nbsp;Covid-19&nbsp;by August 2020.&nbsp;Of 29,082 people surveyed from August 17 to September 22, 6.6% showed evidence of past exposure to Covid-19.&nbsp;Dr Balram Bhargava, who is the director general of the ICMR, said&nbsp;urban slum and urban non-slum areas had higher infection prevalence than that of rural areas.&nbsp;The ICMR report stated that &lsquo;risk in urban slums twice than that in non-slum areas and 4 times the risk in rural setting.&rsquo;&nbsp;

PTI,&nbsp;New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said the new farm laws will have to be opposed not just for farmers but for the future of the country, as he alleged that they were like a "stab in the farmers' hearts".
Interacting with a group of farmers from across the country, he said the GST and the noteban were also attacks on farmers, but these three laws will prove to be more detrimental.
Gandhi also claimed the laws will foster an East India company-like culture and this time, a "West India company" has come in.
"There is no difference between GST, noteban and these three laws. The only difference is that this is directly stabbing your heart with a knife," he said during the virtual meeting with the group of farmers.
"But I have clarity that this has to be opposed. Not for farmers, but for the future of India," he told the farmers in a nearly 11-minute long video shared on social media.
The Congress has opposed the new farm laws and the party is protesting across the country, even as farmers&rsquo; unions have launched a stir in Punjab and Haryana.
"The farmer is not just a farmer, the voice of farmers is in the youth, in the Army, the police and the voice of farmers has a lot of strength. It is with the help of this voice that India attained independence and once again India will become independent through the farmers' voice," Gandhi said.
The former Congress chief said he had seen in Uttar Pradesh&rsquo;s Bhatta Parsaul village that businessmen wanted the farmers' land as well as their farm produce. "The first fight I fought was of land acquisition and the entire media attacked me," he said.
"They said this is a fight against black money but it was not true. The purpose was to weaken our unorganised sector and the poor, farmers and labourers," Gandhi alleged, adding that the purpose of GST was also the same.
Talking to Gandhi, Dhirender Kumar, a farmer from Champaran in Bihar, said farmers are being exploited in the name of these laws and they will be forced to commit suicide due to hunger.
Ashok Bootra from Yavatmal in Maharashtra feared that no one would buy the farm produce at minimum support price (MSP).
"I feel any farmer who protests will be put in jail. In 1840, the East India company used to put out the price of cotton from England and the entire world would buy at that rate. But the businessmen would know of the price in advance," he said.
"The way East India Company used to do business, I feel the same pattern is being followed again. Farmers and small businessmen will be looted. When farmers will not get the rates for their produce, suicides will increase," Bootra said.
Replying to this, Gandhi said, "You want to say earlier it was East India Company, now a West India company has come in."&nbsp;

PTI,&nbsp;New Delhi: Two men allegedly broke the rear window pane of a car belonging to Aam Aadmi Party MLA Raghav Chadha and stole his laptop when the vehicle was parked outside a house in west Delhi's Naraina Vihar area, police said on Tuesday.
The incident place took place on Monday night, and a case of theft was registered at the Naraina police station based on a complaint filed by Shivam Agarwal, who works for the MLA, they said.
Agarwal told the police that the miscreants came on a motorcycle, broke the rear glass pane of the car and stole the laptop from the back seat, a senior officer said.
A security guard of the area noticed that one of the glasses of the car was broken and Agarwal was subsequently alerted, he said.
CCTV footage of nearby places have been checked, and efforts are being made to trace the culprits and recover the stolen laptop, the officer added.
"We have registered a case of theft and are probing the matter. Multiple teams have also been formed to trace the culprits," said Deepak Purohit, Deputy Commissioner of Police (West).
Chadha said he has written to Delhi Police Commissioner S N Shrivastava about the incident.
In the letter, the MLA said the unabashed manner in which the act was committed clearly indicates that there is an unholy nexus of anti-social elements to disrupt law and order.
"It is also significant to note that the brazen attack on a sitting MLA or that too in an area like Naraina Vihar bears testimony to the rumbling law and order situation in Delhi on the ground as well as the blatant impudence of the offenders.
"Pertinently, incidents of repeated attacks on me viz, thrice since February 2020, begs a serious question that if the legislature/official functionaries are attacked in this fashion and are put to constant threats and fear then what would be the plight of a common man," Chadha said in the letter.
Speaking to PTI over the phone, the legislator said, "My official laptop containing documents was stolen. This is the third incident in last six months that happened with me. Earlier in February too, someone broke the glass of my car and stole some valuables. Being a legislator, if I am not safe in this city, then what about the safety of common people? It shows the law and order situation in the capital of the country. I shudder to think about the plight of the common man."&nbsp;

Amid ongoing India-China military talks to de-escalate the tension between the two countries, Chinese foreign ministry on Tuesday said it does not recognise the what it called 'illegally' constituted Ladakh union territory and opposed India from building her military infrastructure in the border areas. Brushing reports of China building a new military base near the LAC and calling them completely false, Foreign Ministry&nbsp;spokesperson&nbsp;Wenbin&nbsp;Wang said neither India nor China should engage in activities in the border region that could complicate the situation. Last year too, China had strongly responded against the bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir into J&amp;K and Ladakh.

So&nbsp;what are the charges against BJP veterans.&nbsp;The&nbsp;CBI&rsquo;s&nbsp;charge of conspiracy is in addition to the charges against them for promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion.&nbsp;The accused are also facing charges of having made assertions&nbsp;&lsquo;prejudicial to national integration and injuring or defiling a place of worship&rsquo;.&nbsp;The other charges against them include indulging in "deliberate and malicious" acts intended to outrage religious feelings, uttering statements leading to public mischief, rioting and unlawful assembly.&nbsp;The CBI argued that the accused conspired and instigated 'kar&nbsp;sevaks' to demolish the 16th century mosque.&nbsp;But the accused pleaded innocence maintaining that there is no evidence to prove their guilt and claimed they were implicated by the then Congress government at the Centre as a political vendetta.&nbsp;

Vice President Venkaiah&nbsp;Naidu&nbsp;has tested positive for Covid-19, the VP Secretariat tweeted on Tuesday. He is&nbsp;asymptomatic,&nbsp;in good health and has been advised home quarantine, his office added.&nbsp; The 71-year-old underwent a Covid-19 test on Tuesday morning along with his wife, Usha&nbsp;Naidu, who has tested negative.&nbsp;

The Babri Masjid demolition case that has been crawling for close to 30 years is finally at the verdict stage. As the CBI court is set to deliver it judgement on the case, we take you through the almost forgotten criminal case in which several BJP and Sangh veterans are accused.

NITI Aayog member VK Paul on Tuesday warned that India could see an explosion of&nbsp;coronavirus&nbsp;cases during the festival season which starts next month if people do not follow&nbsp;Covid-appropriate behaviour. He added that until a vaccine is found, &ldquo;wearing a mask, following social-distancing norms is our best safety mechanism against the virus.&rdquo;

PTI,&nbsp;New Delhi: The Home Ministry on Tuesday said Amnesty International's statement that it was being subjected to an "incessant witch-hunt" was unfortunate, exaggerated and far from the truth.
The Union Home Ministry said all the "glossy statements" about humanitarian work and speaking truth to power are nothing but a "ploy to divert attention" from their activities which were in clear contravention of laid down Indian laws.
"Such statements are also an attempt to extraneously influence the course of investigations by multiple agencies into the irregularities and illegalities carried out over the last few years," the home ministry said in a detailed statement.
The home ministry said that Amnesty International had received permission under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) only once and that too 20 years ago, (on December 19, 2000).
Since then the organisation, despite its repeated applications, has been denied FCRA approval by successive governments since as per law it is not eligible for it.
However, in order to circumvent the FCRA regulations, Amnesty UK remitted large amounts of money to four entities registered in India by classifying it as Foreign Direct Investment (FDI).
A significant amount of foreign money was also remitted to Amnesty (India) without MHA's approval under the FCRA.
"This mala fide rerouting of money was in contravention of extant legal provisions," it said.
Owing to these illegal practices of Amnesty, the previous government had also rejected the repeated applications of Amnesty to receive funds from overseas, the home ministry said.
This had led Amnesty to suspend its India operations once during that period as well.
The home ministry said this bipartisan and purely legal approach towards Amnesty, under different governments, makes it clear that the entire fault lies in the dubious processes adopted by Amnesty to secure funds for its operations.
"The stand taken and the statements made by Amnesty International are unfortunate, exaggerated and far from the truth," the home ministry said.
Amnesty International on Tuesday said it is halting all its activities in India due to freezing of its accounts and claimed that it is being subjected to an "incessant witch-hunt" over unfounded and motivated allegations. PTI ACB RT RT
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The Supreme Court Tuesday asked the Jammu and Kashmir administration to respond to Iltija Mufti&rsquo;s fresh plea challenging the detention of her mother Mehbooba Mufti under the Public Safety Act and said that the detention cannot be forever.
Mehbooba, the PDP chief and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, was arrested on the eve of the abrogation of Jammu and Kashmir&rsquo;s special status and its bifurcation into Union Territories on August 5 last year.
The apex court also said that Mufti should approach authorities to attend party meetings in the Valley. A bench of justices S K Kaul and Hrishikesh Roy permitted Iltija and her uncle to meet their mother in detention.

PTI,&nbsp;New Delhi: Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who was suffering from COVID-19 and dengue, was discharged from hospital on Tuesday, officials said.
Sisodia, 48, was shifted to a hospital in Saket on Thursday evening, considering his "falling" blood platelet count and low oxygen level.
He was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the private health facility in south Delhi and later administered plasma therapy.
"He was tested negative today and his condition is better. He has been discharged from the hospital," said an official from the Deputy Chief Minister's Office.
The Aam Aadmi Party leader had tested positive for COVID-19 on September 14 and was in home isolation.
On Wednesday, he was shifted to the LNJP Hospital for treatment and tested positive for dengue a day later.&nbsp;

Priyanka&nbsp;Gandhi launched an all out attack on the UP govt after a 19-year-old, who was gangraped in UP's&nbsp;Hathras, died on Tuesday. The Congress General Secretary said that law and order in Uttar&nbsp;Pradesh&nbsp;has deteriorated to a great extent and there is no semblance of safety for women as&nbsp;criminals are committing crimes in the open. Directly addressing the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Priyanka&nbsp;said that he was accountable for the safety of women in the state. She also said that the&nbsp;Dalit girl was victim of demoniac behaviour and&nbsp;kept struggling between life and death in hospitals for 2 weeks.
Samajwadi&nbsp;Party chief Akhilesh&nbsp;Yadav&nbsp;also attacked the govt while condoling the death of the girl and said that there was no hope left from the 'present insensitive govt'.&nbsp;
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Amid an ongoing faceoff,&nbsp;India on Tuesday rejected China's&nbsp;claims on the location of the Line of Actual Control in the&nbsp;Ladakh&nbsp;region. As&nbsp;China repeatedly attempts to "unilaterally alter the LAC", the foreign ministry said&nbsp;the Chinese side's assertion that there is only one LAC runs contrary to 'solemn commitments'.&nbsp;India has also reminded China that the 1959 claim made by Beijing in this respect was never mutually agreed upon. The Ministry of External Affairs said the process to demarcate the Line of Actual Control could not proceed "as the Chinese side did not show a willingness to pursue it".

While the nation's fight with the spread of coronavirus&nbsp;is far from over, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has found another virus from China that has the potential to spread disease in India.&nbsp;
In a study published in the Indian Journal of Medical Research, scientists from India have noted the presence of antibodies against the Cat Que virus (CQV) in two human serum samples.&nbsp;
Presence of CQV&nbsp;has so far been largely reported in mosquitoes in China and pigs in Vietnam.&nbsp;The study, which was conducted in 2017-2018, was undertaken to develop diagnostic tests for CQV as the spread of similar species of Culex mosquitoes was observed in India.&nbsp;
ICMR&nbsp;noted in the study that 'antibody positivity&nbsp;and the replication capability of CQV in mosquitoes indicated a possible disease-causing potential of CQV in the Indian scenario.' Adding that testing of more human and swine samples is imperative&nbsp;for 'understanding the prevalence of this neglected tropical virus.'&nbsp;

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