Name: General Manoj Naravane takes over as Army Chief
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General&nbsp;Manoj Naravane&nbsp;has taken over as the Chief of Army Staff from General&nbsp;Bipin Rawat. Appointed Vice Chief of Army Staff in September, General Naravane&nbsp;has also served as the head of the Eastern Command.&nbsp;Commissioned into the 7th battalion of the Sikh Light Infantry Regiment in 1980, he is a recipient of the 'Sena Medal'&nbsp;for commanding a battalion in Jammu&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Kashmir and 'Vishisht Seva Medal' for his services as the Inspector General of Assam Rifles (North) in Nagaland. He has also been awarded the 'Ati Vishisht Seva Medal'.&nbsp;

General Manoj Naravane has taken over as the Chief of Army Staff from General Bipin Rawat. Appointed Vice Chief of Army Staff in September, General Naravane has also served as the head of the Eastern Command. Commissioned into the 7th battalion of the Sikh Light Infantry Regiment in 1980, he is a recipient of the 'Sena Medal' for commanding a battalion in Jammu & Kashmir and 'Vishisht Seva Medal' for his services as the Inspector General of Assam Rifles (North) in Nagaland. He has also been awarded the 'Ati Vishisht Seva Medal'.

An expert panel tasked with drafting a roadmap for procuring, financing and distributing a potential Covid-19 vaccine for mass immunisation decided on Wednesday that all procurement will be done centrally, the Hindustan Times reported. The panel has decided that each consignment will be tracked real-time until delivery to ensure it reaches those who need it most. The first meeting of the panel, headed by Niti Aayog member VK Paul, also discussed the maintenance of a cold chain during distribution and storage. The health ministry has also announced the setting up of a state-of-the-art digital infrastructure to track last-mile delivery of the vaccine and stock position on a real-time basis.

PTI,&nbsp;Beijing: Indian Ambassador to China, Vikram Misri on Wednesday held talks with a senior official of the country's ruling Communist Party here and discussed the situation at the border in eastern Ladakh and overall bilateral relations.
Misri's meeting with Liu Jianchao, Deputy Director of the Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee Foreign Affairs Commission came amidst diplomatic and military-level talks between India and China on disengagment of troops from all friction points in eastern Ladakh.
"Ambassador @VikramMisri today met H.E. Liu Jianchao, Deputy Director of the Office of the CPC Central Committee Foreign Affairs Commission and briefed him on India&rsquo;s stance vis-a-vis the situation on the borders in eastern Ladakh UT and overall bilateral relations&rdquo;, the Indian Embassy tweeted.
No further details of the meeting were available.
Misri&rsquo;s meeting with Liu comes against the backdrop of reports that the disengagement process between the troops of the two countries has not moved forward as expected along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh.
At the latest round of military talks, the Indian side insisted forcefully on complete disengagement of Chinese troops at the earliest, and immediate restoration of status quo ante in all areas of eastern Ladakh prior to May 5 when the standoff began following a clash between the two armies in Pangong Tso.
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) has pulled back from Galwan Valley and certain other friction points but the withdrawal of its troops has not moved forward from the Finger areas in Pangong Tso, Gogra and Depsang as demanded by India, according to sources in New Delhi.
India has been insisting that China must withdraw its forces from areas between Finger Four and Eight. The mountain spurs in the area are referred to as Fingers.
The formal process of disengagement of troops began on July 6, a day after a nearly two-hour telephonic conversation between National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on ways to bring down tensions in the area.

At least 23 companies&nbsp;have shown interest in running private trains in the country. The companies which include top names like L&amp;T, Alstom, Siemens,&nbsp;Bombardier and GMR participated in an official pre-application online conference&nbsp;on&nbsp;Wednesday&nbsp;as a prelude to the Request for Qualification. In the first meeting, 16 companies had participated as India opens its rail sector to private firms to run passenger trains.&nbsp;The government has identified 109 busy routes across India to run 151 private trains for 35 years. These are routes with huge waiting lists and offer a potential to earn. The 151 trains represent only around 5 per cent of total trains run in India.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The BJP government in Karnataka swiftly acted on the suggestion of Bengaluru MP&nbsp;Tejasvi&nbsp;Surya, who wanted chief minister BS&nbsp;Yeddiyurappa&nbsp;to confiscate properties of those involved in attack on Congress lawmaker&rsquo;s house.&nbsp;Referring to a Supreme Court order, Home minister Basavaraj&nbsp;Bommai&nbsp;said that he has given the orders for recovering the losses from those who had caused the damage.&nbsp;Surya&nbsp;had asked the chief minister to confiscate properties like his counterpart Yogi Adityanath did in Uttar Pradesh.&nbsp;110 people allegedly involved in the violence and the accused who posted the communal post have been arrested by the Karnataka&nbsp;police. A district magistrate has been asked to probe the attack.

The Modi government is considering resettling Kashmiri&nbsp;militants who give up arms, according to a report by Reuters. BS&nbsp;Raju, who is one of the top military commanders in Kashmir, told the news wire&nbsp;that a proposal to temporarily resettle surrendered militants outside the valley has been submitted to the Prime Minister.
The senior army office said that they&nbsp;have recommended that the new rehabilitation scheme take a long-term approach as the past schemes have had mixed success.&nbsp;Under the 2004 policy, Kashmiri&nbsp;militants who surrender are given ₹1.5 lakh, a small monthly stipend, free vocational training and cash in return for weapons they hand over.&nbsp;
Reuters reported said 180 militants are believed to be active in the Valley. The proposed rehabilitation scheme comes a year after Centre revoked the region's special status.

Karnataka Congress MLA Srinivasa Murthy, whose nephew&rsquo;s social media post is believed to have triggered riots, has said he had a miraculous escape after a mob wielding machetes, swords and petrol bombs attacked his house on Tuesday night in Bengaluru.&nbsp;Demanding a probe by the CBI or CB-CID,&nbsp;Murthy told the Hindustan Times that&nbsp;the attack seemed to be&nbsp;&lsquo;well-planned&rsquo;. Claiming that&nbsp;he had fallen out with his nephew for the last 10 years and had nothing to do with his actions, Murthy said had he not been forewarned by some of his well wishers, he would have been killed.&nbsp;It is a miracle that I am alive, the newspaper quoted him saying.&nbsp;

Kamala Harris made India proud as she was chosen by Democratic party presidential nominee Joe Biden as his running mate. Harris will be the first Black woman and African American nominated for Vice President by a major party. Meanwhile, back home, Bengaluru is tense after violence broke over an alleged derogatory Facebook post, following which a mob gathered outside the residence of a legislator in in the city late on Tuesday, pelting stones and setting ablaze vehicles. Over 145 suspects have been arrested so far, say the Bengaluru police, as the city returns to normalcy. Watch the day's biggest headlines on editorji's playlist with Vikram Chandra.
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Amid widespread anger over&nbsp;US scholar's&nbsp;death in a reported road accident in Uttar&nbsp;Pradesh's&nbsp;Dadri, the&nbsp;Yogi Adityanath government&nbsp;has set up a Special Investigation Team&nbsp;to probe the case. With the 20 -year-old&nbsp;Sudiksha&nbsp;Bhati's&nbsp;family claiming that she was chased by two motorcycle-borne men and eve-teasing led to the fatal accident,&nbsp;police have sought information about&nbsp;all Bullet motorcycles&nbsp;registered&nbsp;in the area, and have questioned over 15 motorcyclists. However, a&nbsp;police officer told NDTV&nbsp;that they have found no evidence and alleged a 'twist' in the case because those linked to the woman 'thought of insurance money'.&nbsp;Meanwhile,&nbsp;BSP&nbsp;chief&nbsp;Mayawati&nbsp;and&nbsp;Congress leader&nbsp;Priyanka&nbsp;Gandhi slammed the CM over the mishap. Both leaders called out the alleged callous behavior&nbsp;of the UP&nbsp;government in tackling incidents of eve-teasing.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Rebel Congress leader&nbsp;Sachin&nbsp;Pilot&rsquo;s return to the party has an&nbsp;Uttar Pradesh&nbsp;Assembly election twist. According to a report in Hindi newspaper Hindustan it was Priyanka Gandhi&nbsp;who ironed out the difference between Ashok Gehlot and Pilot who comes from the&nbsp;Gijjar&nbsp;community. The report said&nbsp;Congress felt Pilot&rsquo;s need not just for elections in Rajasthan but Lok Sabha polls too. As&nbsp;Priyanka is preparing the ground for 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, at&nbsp;least 55 seats in the state are dominated by the Gujjar community, where Pilot holds considerable sway. If Pilot had quit the Congress,&nbsp;which has lost ground in the key state,&nbsp;the party would have suffered in these pockets.&nbsp;Apart from this, the community can also decide the fortunes of the elections in 14 seats in Madhya Pradesh.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Rajasthan Congress MLAs who were staying in Jaisalmer for the past few days&nbsp;returned to&nbsp;Jaipur on Wednesday. The MLAs&nbsp;had been sent off to Jaisalmer&nbsp;due to fear of horse-trading by the BJP&nbsp;ahead of the assembly session which starts on Friday, August 14.&nbsp;
The Congress legislators&nbsp;have been taken to Hotel&nbsp;Fairmont&nbsp;on the&nbsp;Jaipur-Delhi highway. They had been camping at the same hotel ever since Sachin&nbsp;Pilot's open rebellion against Chief Minister Ashok&nbsp;Gehlot.&nbsp;
Earlier in the day the Chief Minister had said that the MLAs&nbsp;are upset with the truce between the Congress and Sachin&nbsp;Pilot but&nbsp;everyone has to move on. Pilot had been camping in Delhi for over a month and returned to Jaipur&nbsp;on Tuesday after a meeting with Priyanka&nbsp;Gandhi and Rahul&nbsp;Gandhi on Monday

PTI,&nbsp;Mumbai:&nbsp;NCP president Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said he gives "absolutely no importance to his grand-nephew Parth Pawars recent demand for a CBI probe into the case of actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death, and also termed the young leader as immature.
Sharad Pawar also said he has faith in the Mumbai Police, but added that he will not oppose if someone still wants the central agencys investigation into the case.
Rajput, 34, was found hanging at his apartment in suburban Bandra on June 14.
"We attach absolutely no importance to what my grand- nephew says. He is immature...I have clearly said that I have 100 per cent trust in the Maharashtra Police and Mumbai Police. But if someone still wants a CBI probe into it, then there is no reason to oppose that too," the NCP chief told reporters here after a meeting with Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut.
He was asked about the demand for a CBI probe in the case being made some people, including by his grand-nephew Parth Pawar.
Sharad Pawar said he does not want to respond to the allegations being levelled against the Maharashtra government in connection with the case.
"We feel sad if any person commits suicide. But I feel a bit surprised at the way it is being discussed (in the media), he added.
The NCP patriarch further said he had recently been to Satara where a farmer expressed surprise to him on the discussion in the media over Rajputs death.
"The farmer said he felt surprised at the way it (Rajputs death) is being discussed in the media. "He (the farmer) said 20 farmers committed suicide in Satara, but it was not even noted by media. So, I know what are the sentiments of the common people, Pawar added.
Parth Pawar, who lost the last year's Lok Sabha election from Maval seat in Maharashtra, is the son of the NCP president's nephew and state Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar.
On July 27, Parth Pawar met state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh demanding that the case of Rajput's death be handed over to the CBI or a Special Investigation Team (SIT) be formed with forensic experts to probe the case.
Shiv Sena's Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Raut on Sunday claimed "pressure tactics" were being used in the case of Rajput's death and the issue was being politicised as part of a conspiracy against Maharashtra.
It is wrong to see the unfortunate suicide of the actor from a political angle, Raut said in his weekly column 'Rokhthok' in the party mouthpiece 'Saamana'.
A tug of war has been going on between the governments of Bihar and Maharashtra over the Rajput death case.
Maharashtra has been contending that Bihar had no jurisdiction in the matter since the death took place in Mumbai.
Meanwhile, after the nearly hour-long interaction with Pawar at the Y B Chavan Centre here, Raut told PTI it was a routine meeting where many issues were discussed.
He also posted a tweet, saying, "Yes, I met Sharad Pawar and discussed developments in the state and the country.
There is no need for anybody to worry or have stomachache." Raut in his column 'Rokhthok' on Sunday also mentioned about his telephonic conversation with Pawar on some TV news anchors referring to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray in first person.
"'The chief minister is not an individual but an institute. What is the government doing'?" Raut wrote in the column, quoting Pawar.
The NCP and the Congress are part of the Shiv Sena-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government in the state.&nbsp;

Former President Pranab Mukherjee&rsquo;s condition continues to be critical at the Army&rsquo;s Research and Referral Hospital in New Delhi. Mukherjee had undergone a brain surgery on Monday. &ldquo;Presently he is haemodynamically stable and on ventilator,&rdquo; the hospital said in the medical bulletin on Wednesday. His daughter Sharmistha Mukherjee posted an emotional message on Twitter on Wednesday morning stating that she hopes God chooses the best path for her father and gives her the strength to accept whatever comes ahead.

That the truce in Rajasthan is uneasy was clear from chief minister Ashok Gehlot's remarks on Wednesday. Gehlot, who met with Congress MLAs staying at a hotel in Jaisalmer Tuesday evening, said they were "upset" after the truce and it was "natural". The CM added that he explained to the party MLAs that sometimes we need to be tolerant if we have to serve the nation and the state. The Congress MLAs had, just a day before Sachin Pilot dropped his rebellion, demanded that "betrayers" should not be allowed back into the party.

A day after witnessing a dip below 60,000 in single-day Covid cases after 4 straight days of 60,000 plus cases, India again recorded close to 61,000 new infections on Wednesday. According to the health ministry data on Wednesday morning, the country's Covid tally crossed 23 lakh with the latest spike. With 834 new fatalities, the number of deaths due to the coronavirus has gone past 46,000. Close to 16.5 lakh people have recovered from the highly contagious disease, taking the recovery rate to 70.37 per cent.

Curfew has been imposed in parts of Bengaluru that witnessed largescale violence and arson on Tuesday night. A communal social media post by a relative of a Congress MLA triggered massive protests in the city.
Protesters attacked MLA Srinivasa Murthy's residence, vandalised it and damaged the vehicles parked there. 3 people have reportedly been killed police firing on the mob and a number of policemen have also sustained injuries. Protesters also vandalised a police station.&nbsp;Over a 100 protesters have been arrested.
CM Yeddiyurappa has said that his govt won't tolerate any provocations and violence. Congress state chief DK Shivkumar has called a meeting of party MLAs to discuss the situation.
On Tuesday night, irked by the social media post, hundreds of people went on a rampage and set DJ Halli police station on fire.
They torched many police and private vehicles, smashed the belongings of MLA Murthy and those of his sister. An ATM was smashed into pieces.
To disperse the mob, police resorted to lathi charge, lobbed tear gas shells and later opened fire, killing three people.
Legislator Murthy appealed against violence.
"I appeal to my Muslim brethren that we should not resort to violence for the fault committed by some miscreants. There is no need to fight. We all are brothers.
We will get the person punished as per law. We will also be with you. I appeal to the Muslim friends to be calm," he said in a video message last night.
Congress MLA and former minister B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan termed the violence as 'unfortunate.' "I am hopeful police will take action against all those who are responsible for this. I also request everyone to stay calm and maintain peace in the area," Khan tweeted.
Shivaji Nagar Congress MLA Rizwan Arshad too appealed to the people to maintain peace and harmony (With PTI&nbsp;Inputs)

At least one soldier of the Indian Army and an unidentified terrorist were killed during a gunbattle in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Wednesday morning. Kashmir Zone police tweeted that the encounter took place in Kamrazipura of Pulwama. There was an exchange of fire when security forces approached an orchard in Kamrazipora early on Wednesday. The soldier was injured in the initial exchange of firing and later succumbed. One AK 47 assault rifle along with grenades, pouches and other war like stores were recovered from the encounter site.

The number of deaths due to Bihar floods reached 24 even as 75 lakh people were affected across 16 districts on Tuesday, the Bihar government said. While 10 people died in Darbhanga, six lost their lives in Muzaffarpur, four in Champaran, two in Saran and two in Siwan. According to agency reports, 33 teams of National Disaster Response Force have been deployed across the state to carry out rescue and relief operations. Over 12,000 people have been shifted to relief camps.

New Delhi, PTI: For the past seven days, India's single-day count of Covid-19 cases has been more than that of the US and Brazil, the two worst-hit nations in terms of infections, according to an analysis of WHO data.
India, the third worst-hit nation in terms of infections, has also accounted for over 23 per cent of the cases and more than 15 per cent of the deaths reported worldwide between August 4-10, the data shows.
India recorded 4,11,379 Covid-19 cases and 6,251 deaths due to the disease in a span of seven days till August 10, while the US which is at the number one spot in terms of both cases and deaths, registered 3,69,575 infections and 7,232 deaths during the same period.
Brazil reported 3,04,535 cases and 6,914 fatalities during this period.
Recording over 60,000 cases daily for four days on the trot, the single-day rise in infections dipped to over 52,000, taking India's Covid-19 tally to 22.68 lakh on Tuesday, according to the Union health ministry data updated at 8 am.
It took 110 days for Covid-19 cases in India to reach one lakh and 59 days more to cross the 10-lakh mark. India's Covid-19 cases have jumped from 10 lakh to 22 lakh in 24 days.

New Delhi, PTI: Two leading pilot unions of Air India on Tuesday deamnded that DGCA chief Arun Kumar should be immediately sacked. The unions said that he should be replaced with a suitable candidate with substantial knowledge of the aviation sector and operational experience.
The unions, in their letter to civil aviation minister Hardeep Puri, that aviation watchdog chief's comments on news channels reveal a total lack of technical know-how and an "amateurish view" of the Kerala plane crash.
According to the Indian Commercial Pilots' Union (ICPA) and Indian Pilots' Guild (IPG), Kumar said during one of the televised interviews that the plane's "landing was not smooth".
On another news channel, Kumar stated that the "two fellows are dead...and the landing it seems was not appropriate", according to a letter jointly written by the two unions to Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Tuesday. Pilot-in-command Captain Deepak Vasant Sathe, 58, and co-pilot Captain Akhilesh Kumar, 32, were the ones operating the Air India Express flight with 190 that overshot the runway and crashed at the Kozhikode airport in Kerala on Friday night.
Both pilots, along with 16 other people on board, died in the accident.
Air India Express is a wholly owned subsidiary of Air India. The two deceased pilots were not part of either of the two aforementioned unions.
The unions noted, "Whether a landing technique is appropriate or a contributory factor to a mishap can only be ascertained after a thorough, evidence backed investigation and not by speculative, casual remarks." The above remarks of Kumar on news channels only go to reveal his "total lack of technical knowledge and amateurish view of the unfortunate accident", the letter noted.
It is an established scientific fact that so-called &ldquo;smooth&rdquo; touchdowns may be counterproductive in certain adverse weather conditions and may pose a significant risk to safety, it stated.
The unions requested Puri that "Arun Kumar IAS is immediately replaced with a suitable candidate with substantial aviation knowledge and operational experience, to serve the country as the Director General of Civil Aviation".

Bengaluru, PTI: A mob rampaged through Bengaluru's Pulakeshi Nagar Tuesday night and vandalised a police station and a Congress legislator's residence after an alleged relative of the MLA shared a social media post purportedly on a communal issue, police said.
A large number of people gathered near MLA Akhanda Srinivasa Murthy's residence and vandalised it and damaged the vehicles parked there.
The mob then targeted the police station and damaged vehicles believing that the police had kept the accused detained there, they said.
The police teams that tried to contain the violence also bore the brunt of the mob as their vehicles were damaged, eye-witnesses said.
Police sources said a person said to be a close relative of Murthy allegedly shared a social media post that enraged members of a community.
Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai said riots and arson are against law and warned the rioters that he has given police a free hand to contain the violence.
Later, MLA Murthy appealed to the community members to not resort to violence.
"I am appealing to my Muslim brethren that we should not resort to violence for the fault committed by some miscreants. There is no need to fight. We all are brothers. We will get the person punished as per law. We will also be with you. I appeal to the Muslim friends to be calm," he said in a video message.
Congress MLA and former minister B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan said the violence was unfortunate.
"I am hopeful that police will take action against all those who are responsible for this. I also request everyone to stay calm and maintain peace in the area," Khan tweeted.

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