In a relief for Delhi residents, the Aam Aadmi govt has decided to reduce VAT on diesel that will bring down the fuel prices in the Capital. Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday announced that the tax on diesel will be cut from 30% to 16.75%, which will reduce price in Delhi by over 8 rupees from Rs 82 to Rs 73.64 per litre. Prices of diesel have been going up in the recent days and for the first time it became costlier than petrol in the capital.

In a relief for Delhi residents, the Aam Aadmi govt has decided to reduce VAT on diesel that will bring down the fuel prices in the Capital. Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday announced that the tax on diesel will be cut from 30% to 16.75%, which will reduce price in Delhi by over 8 rupees from Rs 82 to Rs 73.64 per litre. Prices of diesel have been going up in the recent days and for the first time it became costlier than petrol in the capital.

The number of deaths in Friday's landslide in Kerala's Munnar has gone up to 21 as rescue workers recovered more bodies on Saturday.
A number of tea estate workers are still feared trapped after landslide was triggered by heavy rain and flooding in Idukki district.
About a dozen people have been rescued as per latest reports and are undergoing treatment.
The landslide occurred&nbsp;after torrential rain in the area over the last three days.
At least 80 people were reportedly staying in the area, local authorities said.&nbsp;

India has formed an expert committee comprising representatives from various ministries and institutions to oversee all aspects of its Covid-19 vaccine plan, the Hindustan Times has reported. The committee will oversee the identification of vaccine to buying to financing the purchase to distribution and administration. The move comes even as six vaccines are in Phase 3 or combined Phase 2-3 trials and as countries around the world scramble to strike deals with multiple vaccine makers. The report added that the panel will be led by Niti Aayog&rsquo;s Dr VK Paul and co-chaired by health secretary Rajesh Bhushan. It will pick the vaccine or vaccines that India can use, plan the finances and prioritise the sequence of administration, the report said.

The flight data recorders of the Air India Express flight that broke into pieces after it skidded off a tabletop runway amid heavy rain at Kerala's Kozhikode airport late Friday evening have been found. The recorders - a Digital Flight Data Recorder (DFDR) and a Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) store crucial information about a plane's altitude, position and speed. Theya also store records of conversations between the pilots, and will be critical in helping aviation investigators understand what happened to flight. Civil aviation minister Hardeep Puri has ordered investigation into the crash.

A security guard at a government hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj was caught on camera mercilessly thrashing an old homeless woman outside the hospital. The guard Sanjay Mishra was arrested late on Friday night after the viral video triggered shock and anger. The woman in her 80s had taken shelter at the hospital on Thursday night. She is seen lying down on the ground, screaming in pain, as the guard kicks her and beats her relentlessly.

Before the Air India Express flight overshot and crash landed at the Kozhikode airport runway, the pilots, had attempted two landings but had to abort due to tailwind, a DGCA official said. "According to weather radar, approach was for runway 28 but as pilots found difficulties they went around twice and came from the opposite side on runway 10 and the plane crash-landed at Kerala's Kozhikode airport," a senior investigator from DGCA told ANI. Both the pilots died in the crash.

The Delhi government has launched the Electric Vehicle Policy which will waive registration fee, road tax, and provide an incentive of up to&nbsp;₹1.5 lakh for new&nbsp;electric cars.
With this policy, the government aims to generate employment to give a boost to Delhi's economy and reduce pollution levels in the national capital. The policy also aims to constitute 25% electric vehicles by 2024, which is currently just 0.29% in the national capital.
Chief Minister Arvind&nbsp;Kejriwal said his government will also give low-interest loans on electric commercial vehicles and will also set up 200 charging stations in a year.

Civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Saturday said that all efforts are being made to help the passengers and a formal enquiry will be conducted into the Kozhikode plane crash. The minister added that the task would have been much more difficult if the plane had caught fire. Puri said that the pilot must have tried to bring the flight to the end of tabletop airport's runway where it skidded due to slippery conditions owing to rains.

Kozhikode, PTI: Screams of pain, blood soaked clothing, terrified children and the blare of ambulance sirens. The distressing scenes that unfolded after the ill fated plane from Dubai fell into a valley with a deafening sound, killing at least 17 people on Friday.
Amid downpour, while rescue personnel, including the local civil police hastened to pull out the injured men and women from the aircraft that broke into two, passengers were stunned to even comprehend what had happened in a matter of moments.
Screams of people in pain and initial chaotic moments were appalling.
Children, some as young as four or five years clung on to rescue personnel and things strewn around, from shoes to baggage, bore tell tale signs of the agonising moments endured by passengers.
The scene was similar in hospitals where the injured were rushed as screams rent the air as health workers rushed to provide succor.
People living nearby pitched in on time to lend a helping hand to the grief struck passengers.
A local man said he rushed to the airport after hearing a "terrible thud" when the flight fell.
"Small kids were trapped under the seats and it was such a distressing sight," he said.
"When we reached there some were deplaned.
Many of them were seriously injured.
Legs were broken....My hands and shirt were soaked in the blood of the injured persons", he said.
Another man who participated in the rescue operations told a TV channel that "injured pilot of the aircraft was taken out from the cockpit after breaking it." By the time ambulances started reaching the spot, the locals had already started shifting injured passengers in cars to various hospitals in Kozhikode and Malappuram districts, he said

Wing Commander Deepak Vasant Sathe, the captain of the ill-fated aircraft that crashed at Calicut on Friday, was a top-notch Indian Air Force fighter pilot. He honed his skills flying the Soviet-origin MiG-21 fighter planes during his 22-year IAF career, the Hindustan Times has reported. 59-year-old Sathe was awarded the coveted &ldquo;sword of honour&rdquo; when he graduated from the Air Force Academy, Hyderabad, in 1981. The former IAF fighter, an alumnus of the prestigious National Defence Academy, was also an accomplished test pilot. Sathe joined the air force in 1981 and quit the IAF prematurely in 2003.

New Delhi, PTI: The Union Health Ministry has asked states and UTs to test grocery shop workers, vegetable and other vendors for coronavirus. The govt has stated that if undetected they can potentially spread the infection to a large number of people.
In a letter to states and UTs, Secretary in the Health Ministry, Rajesh Bhushan also stressed the need for operationalising ambulance transport system with oxygen facility and quick response mechanism.
He underlined that refusal rate of ambulances must be monitored at a daily basis and brought down to zero.
With the Covid-19 pandemic now spreading to newer areas in the country, Bhushan said there are likely to be scattered cases, cluster of cases or large outbreaks in districts and that the primary aim is to control outbreaks especially in new locations.
&ldquo;The focus at the same time should be to save lives at all cost," he said.
"While we have so far done better than many other countries in this respect, our aim should be to further reduce mortality and ensure that it does not cross the 1 per cent mark," Bhushan said in the letter, addressed to additional chief secretaries, principal secretaries and secretaries (health).
Bhushan pointed out that early detection of cases through aggressive testing, prompt isolation or admission in a healthcare facility and ensuring proper clinical management are major components of mortality reduction.
"Early detection of cases is the most crucial element to ensure that the case fatality is reduced. It helps in terms of not only identifying the case before it may become critical but also supports in terms of checking the spread of infection," he said in the letter.
He stressed on enhanced surveillance for influenza like illness (ILI)/severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) as their symptoms are mostly the same as COVID.
Once a positive case is identified, a prompt contact-tracing should be undertaken and at least 80 per cent of the contacts must be identified and quarantined within 72 hours, he said.
Normally, a person would have an average of 30 contacts for a period of tracking that two days before the symptom onset, Bhushan said.
"There can be potential hotspots for spread of infection like industrial clusters with closed work environment, people coming from high prevalence areas, other high density areas such as slums, prisons, old age homes etc.
"In addition, grocery shops, vegetable and other vendors etc can be potential spreaders of infection to a large number of people. Testing in such areas and of such people should be taken up proactively as per ICMR guidelines," Bhushan underscored.

Survivors of the Kerala plane crash say "brave pilot and vigilant local people averted a major tragedy." People rushed to the spot and retrieved passengers before help came in. Locals retrieved the injured passengers on board the ill-fated aircraft even though there was smoke inside it. Officials also lauded the pilot's experience and presence of mind as he managed to keep the plane from hitting a big settlement just 300 metre away. The impact would have been much bigger otherwise, officials said.

The Air India plane that crashed at the Kozhikode airport was part of the Vande Bharat Mission to repatriate Indian nationals from overseas during the coronavirus lockdown. 2 teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) comprising 60 personnel -- one from Mallapuram and the other from Wayanad, have also been dispatched with first aid and electrical equipment to cut through the wreckage. Officials say they are still searching for around 100 people, adding that a shortage of torches and incessant rainfall were hampering the rescue process. About 108 ambulances from Kozhikode and Malappuram have been rushed to the airport.

Tweeting about the Air India plane crash, PM&nbsp;Modi expressed anguish at the loss of lives.
PM Narendra Modi dialled Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan moments after news of the Air India plane crash at Kozhikode broke. Vijayan informed PM that a team of officials including Kozhikode &amp; Malappuram District Collectors along with IG Ashok Yadav are at the airport &amp; participating in the rescue operations.
A host of political reactions have started pouring in after a Dubai-Kozhikode Air India flight skidded during landing at Karipur Airport.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said, he was deeply anguished by the loss of lives due to an accident carrying several passengers on Air India flight. 
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar tweeted, his prayers are with the bereaved families and those injured. 
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi tweeted, he was shocked at the devastating news of the plane mishap in Kozhikode.

Rescue operations are underway after an Air India plane carrying about 190 passengers and crew members on board crashed at the Kozhikode airport. Reports say there are 174 passengers, 10 infants, two pilots and five cabin crew on board the aircraft. Kerala govt officials say passengers are being taken to hospital for medical care. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has ordered a detailed inquiry into the matter. The Kozhikode airport is a tabletop airport like the one in Mangaluru. The Air India Express plane allegedly fell into a 30 feet deep gorge, while landing at the Karipur Airport in Kozhikode. Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said he has instructed the police and fire Force to take urgent action.

An Air India Express plane with 190 on board from Dubai overshot Karipur&rsquo;s table top runway and fell about 35 feet into a valley on Friday evening.
Officials said 18 people, including the&nbsp;pilot Captain Deepak Vasant Sathe&nbsp;and the co-pilot, have died in the accident and over 140 more are injured, some of them are critical. All 4 crew members were reported to be safe.
Images from Karipur airport, also known as Kozhikode international airport, showed the aircraft split into two pieces. The plane skid off the runway due to rainy conditions and fell in a gorge.&nbsp;
It was a Vande&nbsp;Bharat&nbsp;mission flight ferrying people stranded in Gulf due to Covid-19 pandemic back home.

The Serum Institute of India on Friday said it has entered into a new partnership with international vaccine alliance Gavi and Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation to accelerate manufacturing and delivery of up to 100 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines for India as well as other low and middle-income countries. The collaboration will provide upfront capital to SII to help them increase manufacturing capacity now, so that, once a vaccine gains regulatory approval and WHO prequalification, doses can be produced at scale for distribution to India, as early as the first half of 2021. The company has set an affordable ceiling price of around Rs 225 per dose.
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On Thursday, 1,299 new Covid-19 cases were reported in Delhi, taking the total tally to over 1.41 lakh in the capital. 1,008 people recovered from the disease and Delhi currently has 10,348 active coronavirus cases, including 3,024, who are receiving treatment at hospitals. Meanwhile, liquor shops timing extended in the capital. All liquor shops in Delhi are allowed to open from 10 am to 10 pm instead of 10 am to 9 pm, with immediate effect till further orders.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath triggered a row after he said he would not attend the inauguration of the mosque to be built in Ayodhya, replacing the demolished Babri Masjid. In an interview to a television channel on Thursday, Adityanath said he couldn't go for the mosque inauguration 'as a yogi and as a Hindu'. Yogi Adityanath said, he has no problem with any belief, religion or community, but as a Hindu he has the right to express his way of worship and act accordingly. Reacting to the remark, the opposition, Samajawadi Party said he should seek an apology from the people of the state.

Like Maharashtra, Karnataka too is reeling under torrential rain. A flood like situation was reported in the border regions of Belagavi district, with rising water levels in the Krishna river and its tributaries.
Swollen Hemavathi river and rains in the district has also caused damage to houses and roads, so people living in low lying areas are being shifted, say officials.
A video showing a&nbsp;temple submerged in water due to overflowing of the river in Hassan&nbsp;area has been doing the rounds&nbsp;of social media.&nbsp;
Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa, has released Rs 50 crore for emergency relief.

A trial court here on Friday granted bail to Bishop Franco Mulakkal, accused of raping a nun in Kerala, with stringent conditions and directed him to be present on the dates of hearing of the case.
The Additional Sessions Court had cancelled the bail granted to the Bishop on July 13 for failing to appear for the trial and issued a Non Bailable Warrant against him.
Mulakkal was present in the Court on Friday when it considered the matter.
Granting bail, the Court directed him not to leave the state till the chargesheet is read out to him on August 13 and to be present court on the dates of hearing of the case.
The Court also directed him to offer fresh sureties and bail bonds.
On July 13, Mulakkal's counsel had informed the court that his client could not appear as he had been in self quarantine due to his primary contact with a COVID-19 infected person.
The next day, the former Jalandhar Bishop had tested positive for coronavirus.

In a relief for Delhi residents, the Aam Aadmi govt has decided to reduce VAT on diesel that will bring down the fuel prices in the Capital by ₹8 per litre

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