Actor and politician Rajinikanth on Wednesday lashed out at the Centre over the violence in Delhi that left over 27 people dead, saying the riots should have been dealt with an iron fist. In a sharp attack, Rajinikanth also asked those in power to 'resign and go' if the violence could not be tackled. He said an intelligence failure meant failure of the Union home ministry. Makkal Needhi Maiam chief Kamal Haasan hailed Rajinikanth's comments remarks, saying the path chosen by Rajinikanth is the right one. Haasan took to Twitter and wrote, this is a good path, it's not for just one person, but a royal path for an entire community.

Actor and politician Rajinikanth on Wednesday lashed out at the Centre over the violence in Delhi that left over 27 people dead, saying the riots should have been dealt with an iron fist. In a sharp attack, Rajinikanth also asked those in power to 'resign and go' if the violence could not be tackled. He said an intelligence failure meant failure of the Union home ministry. Makkal Needhi Maiam chief Kamal Haasan hailed Rajinikanth's comments remarks, saying the path chosen by Rajinikanth is the right one. Haasan took to Twitter and wrote, this is a good path, it's not for just one person, but a royal path for an entire community.

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. With this, five criminals involved in the Kanpur shootout have now been killed.

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.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi late on Wednesday night called the family of the slain BJP leader in Jammu and Kashmir. PM Modi expressed his condolences to the family of Sheikh Wasim, BJP's Bandipora district president, who was shot by terrorists along with his father and bother on Wednesday. The killings are being seen as a major security failure. Reports said that none of the eight guards provided to Wasim as part of his security detail were present during the attack. They have been taken into custody for dereliction of duty and are being interrogated, reports added. The attack took place barely a few metres from a police station.

A BJP leader, his father and brother were shot dead by militants in Jammu and Kashmir's Bandipora district Wednesday night.&nbsp;Militants opened fire on Wasim Ahmad Bari, BJP district president, outside his shop near police station Bandipora at around 9 pm, the police said.&nbsp;Bari's brother Umar and father Bashir Ahmad were injured in the firing.&nbsp;They were taken to the Bandipora district hospital where they succumbed to injuries.&nbsp;

The Chinese military removed all temporary structures and completed withdrawal of its troops from the face-off site in Hot Springs in eastern Ladakh on Wednesday even as the Indian Army kept a close watch on the pull back and maintained a high-level of combat readiness in the region, PTI reported quoting sources.&nbsp;&nbsp;They&nbsp;news&nbsp;report said&nbsp;the two armies are expected to carry out a joint verification in the next few days to assess the implementation of the disengagement process once the dismantling of the temporary infrastructure and withdrawal of troops by China are completed at the friction points along the Line of Actual Control&nbsp;in eastern Ladakh.&nbsp;There has been thinning out of troops from Finger areas in Pangong Tso as well, they&nbsp;report said. Pangong Tso has been a major face-off site between the two sides.&nbsp;

The Ministry of External Affairs on Wednesday came down heavily on Pakistan over the Kulbhushan Jadhav case and said that the Indian national was coerced by the country to forego his rights.&nbsp;The MEA&rsquo;s reactions comes after Pakistan&rsquo;s claims that the 49-year-old retired Indian Navy officer refused to file a review petition and reconsideration of his death sentence and conviction. The MEA statement said in a brazen attempt to scuttle even the inadequate remedy&nbsp;Pakistan&nbsp;has refused to initiate review petition is a continuation of the farce that has been in play for the last four years.&nbsp;Despite our repeated requests, the MEA said that Pakistan continues to deny India free and unimpeded access to Jadhav.&nbsp;&nbsp;

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday accused China of taking 'incredibly aggressive action' in a recent confrontation with India along the LAC in eastern Ladakh's Galwan valley. Pompeo told reporters that the Indians have done their best to respond to that. He added he had spoken&nbsp;to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar many times about this. 20 personnel of the Indian Army were killed in violent clashes with Chinese troops in Galwan Valley on June 15. After high-level talks between the two armies and leaders, both India and China agreed to pull back from the contested spots earlier this week.

After the&nbsp;Central Board of Secondary Education&nbsp;announced that it has decided to reduce its syllabus for class 9 to 12 for academic session 2020-2021 by up to 30%, the board issued a clarification on the rationalization saying that it was a "one-time measure" owing to pandemic. The CBSE&nbsp;clarification comes in the backdrop of the education board facing criticism for its decision to&nbsp;drop key chapters&nbsp;like Democratic Rights, Federalism, Citizenship and Secularism from school courses.&nbsp;The Board stated that the objective behind the cut in syllabus is in order to reduce the examination stress of the students due to the current situation of coronavirus pandemic leading to health emergency circumstances as well as to "prevent learning gaps."&nbsp;

The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday confiscated assets worth ₹329.66 crore of Punjab National Bank scam accused and fugitive&nbsp;jeweller&nbsp;Nirav Modi&nbsp;under the fugitive economic&nbsp;offenders&nbsp;law.&nbsp;The probe agency said&nbsp;the&nbsp;&nbsp;confiscated&nbsp;properties are in the form of four flats at the iconic building Samudra Mahal in&nbsp;Worli&nbsp;Mumbai, a sea-side farm house and land in&nbsp;Alibaug, a wind mill in Jaisalmer, a flat in London and residential flats in UAE, shares and bank deposits.&nbsp;The agency has till now attached assets worth ₹2,348 crore of Nirav Modi under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.&nbsp;The 49-year-old fugitive&nbsp;jeweller,&nbsp;who is&nbsp;a key accused in the&nbsp;₹13,600 crore PNB fraud, is fighting extradition to India on charges of money laundering. He has been lodged at Wandsworth Prison in south-west London since his arrest in March last year.&nbsp;

The Uttar Pradesh police on Wednesday arrested two policemen for allegedly tipping off gangster Vikas Dubey before the Kanpur encounter in which eight policemen including a deputy superintendent of police was&nbsp;killed.&nbsp;Kanpur SSP Dinesh Kumar Prabhu told reporters that they have arrested policemen Vinay Tiwari&nbsp;and&nbsp;KK Sharma&nbsp;have been arrested after probe revealed that they had tipped of the history sheeter who continues to be on the run.&nbsp;Meanwhile the Haryana police has arrested three alleged accomplices of Vikas Dubey in a raid at a house in Faridabad after a tip-off that the gangster was holed up there.&nbsp;CCTV footage of a person resembling the gangster trying to book a room at a hotel in Faridabad on Tuesday night went viral. However, the man managed to flee before the police reached there.&nbsp; &nbsp;

Lockdown will be imposed in containment zones in West Bengal for seven days from 5 pm Thursday to check the surge in novel coronavirus cases. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday the&nbsp;situation will be reviewed after the seven days and the next course of action will be decided.&nbsp;Banerjee said if it is seen that the number of cases&nbsp;are&nbsp;coming down during this period, then some relaxations will be announced.&nbsp;She urged people to maintain physical distance and wear face masks.&nbsp;Banerjee directed the police to be strict with those violating norms and send back people home, if they are found without masks.&nbsp;The West Bengal government had 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.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday highlighted how the economic crisis in the country is deepening, adding that he was 'ridiculed' for warning the country about the truth. In a tweet, Rahul said, 'small and medium enterprises stand destroyed. Large companies are under severe stress. Banks are in distress. I stated months ago that an economic tsunami was coming and was ridiculed by BJP and the Media for warning the country about the truth. Gandhi also shared a screenshot of an article which said corporate stress could increase by an additional 1.68 lakh crore by the next fiscal. His comments come at a time when India's economy is expected to contract for the first time in four decades.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday slammed the CBSE's decision to drop topics such as &lsquo;citizenship&rsquo;, &lsquo;federalism&rsquo; and &lsquo;partition&rsquo; in an effort to&nbsp;rationalise&nbsp;its curriculum amid the Covid-19 crisis.&nbsp;She appealed to the Human Resource Development Ministry not to curtail important lessons at any cost. In a tweet, she said she was shocked&nbsp;&nbsp;and&nbsp;strongly objects&nbsp;the move.&nbsp;The CBSE has&nbsp;rationalised&nbsp;the syllabus for Classes 9 to 12 for the 2020-21 session by up to 30 per cent to make up for the academic loss caused due to Covid-19.

The Centre will spend an amount of RS 1.49 lakh crore on free foodgrain and pulses for eight months to beneficiaries under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said Wednesday. On June 30, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced that the scheme for free food grain to more than 80 crore poor people will be extended until November amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The cabinet also approved extending employees provident fund (EPF) support for businesses and workers for three more months for 72 lakh employees.

A Delhi court on Wednesday granted bail to Chinese, Brazilian, Australian, Fijian, and Philippines nationals who participated in the Tablighi Jamaat congregation at Nizamuddin in&nbsp;Delhi&nbsp;in March. They were granted bail on a personal bond of&nbsp;₹10,000 each. They have also moved a&nbsp;plea bargaining&nbsp;application before the trial court.&nbsp;Plea bargaining is a pre-trial negotiation between the accused and the prosecution where the accused agrees to plead guilty in exchange for certain concessions.&nbsp;This came a day after the court granted bail to 122 Malaysian nationals. All the foreign nationals had participated in the congregation in alleged violation of visa norms and guidelines issued by the Indian government on Covid-19.

Jammu and Kashmir IPS officer Basant&nbsp;Rath&nbsp;has been suspended for alleged instances of gross misconduct and&nbsp;misbehaviou, the Ministry of Home Affairs has said.&nbsp;Basant&nbsp;Rath, a 2000 batch IPS officer,&nbsp;had recently written a letter in which he expressed apprehension about his safety&nbsp;due to "certain activities" of the Jammu and Kashmir Police chief&nbsp;Dilbagh&nbsp;Singh. The letter had gone viral on the social media, triggering a controversy.&nbsp;Rath, posted as inspector general, civil&nbsp;defence, in the union territory, has been asked not to leave the headquarters without permission from the director general of Jammu and Kashmir Police.&nbsp;

Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren has quarantined himself at his Ranchi residence after a cabinet minister whom he had met recently tested positive for Covid-19.&nbsp;The chief minister had recently come in contact with Drinking and Sanitation Minister Mithilesh Thakur who has tested positive. Soren has also urged staff members of the Chief Minister's Office to go into home quarantine.&nbsp;The chief minister's samples are expected to be tested during the day.&nbsp;

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