Convict in the&nbsp;Nirbhaya rape case,&nbsp;Vinay Kumar Sharma on Wednesday filed a mercy petition asking for&nbsp;his capital punishment to be changed to a life term.&nbsp;Vinay Sharma, along with Mukesh Kumar Singh, Pawan Gupta and Akshay&nbsp;have been sentenced to death for brutally raping and killing a medical student in Delhi on December 16, 2012. Another convict, who was a minor at the time fo the crime, was sent to a correctional centre and has been released after he had served his sentence. The sixth accused hanged himself to death during the trial. The four convicts are set to be hanged on the 1st of February at 6 am.

Convict in the Nirbhaya rape case, Vinay Kumar Sharma on Wednesday filed a mercy petition asking for his capital punishment to be changed to a life term. Vinay Sharma, along with Mukesh Kumar Singh, Pawan Gupta and Akshay have been sentenced to death for brutally raping and killing a medical student in Delhi on December 16, 2012. Another convict, who was a minor at the time fo the crime, was sent to a correctional centre and has been released after he had served his sentence. The sixth accused hanged himself to death during the trial. The four convicts are set to be hanged on the 1st of February at 6 am.

The Centre Wednesday told the Supreme Court that it had served a showcause notice to Sudarshan TV over its 'UPSC Jihad' programme that claims to expose a 'conspiracy to infiltrate Muslims in government service'. The Centre said the show prima facie violated programme code and Sudarshan TV has been asked to submit a reply by September 28. The SC bench of Justices DY Chandrachud, Indu Malhotra and K M Joseph, had on September 15 stayed the telecast of remaining episodes of Sudarshan TV&rsquo;s show. Next hearing on the matter is scheduled on October 5.

The Central Pollution Control Board has released a report which states that five major rivers in the country, including the Ganga have deteriorated in spite of the the Covid-19&nbsp;lockdown.
Due to the release of sewage and no fresh water discharge, the quality in these rivers do not qualify criteria for even outdoor bathing. Apart from Ganga the other rivers include Beas, Chambal, Sutlej and Swarnarekha.
However, the report said improvement was seen in the water quality of Brahmani, Brahmaputra, Cauvery, Godavari, Krishna, Tapi and Yamuna due to minimal industrial&nbsp;discharge, no human activities like puja material and garbage disposals.
The pollution watchdog had asked the State Pollution Control Boards to monitor&nbsp;the quality of water during the lockdown period.

Minister of State for Railways Suresh C Angadi died in New Delhi on Wednesday due to Covid-19.&nbsp;Angadi had tested positive for Covid-19 on September 11 and was initially asymptomatic and said he was "doing fine". The BJP MP was later admitted to the dedicated Covid-19 facility at the AIIMS Trauma Centre where he passed away.
He is the first member of the Union Cabinet to succumb to coronavirus.&nbsp;Suresh Angadi was a four-time Lok Sabha MP from Karnataka's Belagavi constituency, elected in 2004, 2014 and 2019.
After news of MP Suresh Angadi's death broke, condolences poured in for the minister from across party lines.&nbsp;Prime Minister Narendra Modi remembered Suresh Angadi and said he was "an exceptional karyakarta".

The opposition parties on Wednesday urged President Ram Nath Kovind to hold back his assent to the contentious farm bills, which have been passed by both Houses of Parliament. Meeting the President at the Rashtrapati Bhavan&nbsp;on behalf of the opposition parties, Congress veteran and Rajya Sabha MP Ghulam Nabi Azad said the Constitution of India was undermined in the temple of democracy.
"There was no division of votes, no voice voting. Constitution was undermined in the temple of democracy. We have given a representation to the President that farm Bills have been passed unconstitutionally and he should return these Bills"&nbsp;Azad said.

While holding a meeting with chief ministers of 7 states that have the highest Covid-19 case load in the country, Prime Minister Narendra&nbsp;Modi&nbsp;said that there are over 700 districts in India but only 60 districts in 7 states are reporting worrying numbers. He suggested that the chief ministers of these states hold virtual conferences with district-level officials for 7 days and directly seek reports from them. He also asked the chief ministers to adopt best practices from other states. These 7 states are Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi Punjab and Tamil Nadu.&nbsp;
The Prime Minister said even though number of recoveries was rising in the country it was important to increase&nbsp;focus on effective testing, tracing and treatment.&nbsp;

Railway Minister Piyush&nbsp;Goyal informed the Parliament on Wednesday, in a written reply, that the Railways has not received any complaints about inhuman conditions on the Shramik&nbsp;Special trains run by the govt for migrant labourers. He, however, added that they have received over 3000 complaints about&nbsp;catering, cleaning, water and electricity on these trains.
He also placed before the Rajya&nbsp;Sabha&nbsp;details about the number of Sharmik&nbsp;special trains run by govt.&nbsp;Between May 1 and August 31 this year, the Railways operated 4,621 Shramik Special trains and carried 63.19 lakh stranded people to their respective home states during the Covid-19 pandemic-induced lockdown, he said.&nbsp;
The Railway Minister further said in his reply that they had not received any application for compensation from the kin of 97 people who died while travelling on these trains and therefore no compensation has been paid to them.&nbsp;

After chaotic scenes that resulted in the passage of three contentious farm bills, Rajya Sabha was adjourned sine dine on Wednesday. The monsoon session of the Parliament, was scheduled to go on till October 1, but was cut short in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic. The current Monsoon Session was scheduled to have 18 sittings without a break from September 14 till October 1. The attendance also remained low throughout and now with the session cut short, the 252nd session of the Rajya Sabha has become the third shortest in terms of total sittings since the Upper House came into existence in 1952. Meanwhile, Opposition parties, that boycotted Rajya Sabha session, have called a meeting at the office of Leader of Opposition in the House, Ghulam Nabi Azad, to discuss further strategy on the farm bills passed in Parliament.

Continuing the high Covid recovery trend, India for the fifth consecutive day recorded more daily recoveries than the number of fresh cases. The change in the trend started from September 19, when India was reporting around 90,00 daily Covid-19 cases. On that date, the number of recoveries was over 95,000. Monday saw the highest jump in recoveries when over a lakh patients recovered from the virus. Close to 46 lakh patients have so far recovered from the contagion.
&nbsp;

Chief Minister K Palaniswami on Wednesday urged the Centre to reconstitute an expert committee under the Culture Ministry to study the origin and evolution of Indian culture during the past 12 millennia by including scholars from Tamil Nadu. In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the CM said the composition of the 16-member committee to conduct holistic study of Indian culture was a matter of &lsquo;deep concern&rsquo; as it has no representative from any of the Southern States, especially from Tamil Nadu, &lsquo;which has a glorious past and is home to one of the oldest civilisations&rsquo;.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday reviewed the Covid-19&nbsp; situation with chief ministers, health ministers and other representatives of seven states with high case load.&nbsp;
These states are Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Delhi and Punjab. According to officials &nbsp;more than 63 per of the active cases in the country are concentrated in these seven states.&nbsp;They also account for 65.5 per cent of the total confirmed cases and 77 per cent of the total deaths, a govt statement said.
Other than Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, the case positivity rate of these states has also been observed to be above the national average of 8.52%, the statement added.&nbsp;

Winter is coming! The clear blue sky that&nbsp;Delhiites&nbsp;saw in all these months of lockdown will be of no respite as the city's pollution crisis aggravates in the winter months.
Experts say that the 3-foot physical distance protocol in use during the lockdown&nbsp;and unlock phases of the pandemic&nbsp;will be irrelevant for residents of Delhi-NCR with the rise in pollution levels.
With the Covid-19 virus being airborne, pollution will only make it easier for the virus to travel faster. Congested areas like slums and unauthorised colonies are highly vulnerable to this mode of transmission.

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who tested positive for novel coronavirus last week, has been taken to Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Hospital in the national capital for a check-up, after he complained of fever.
After testing positive&nbsp;on September 14, Sisodia&nbsp;had said that he had no fever and was going into isolation.
Manish Sisodia was the second minister in the Arvind Kejriwal government, who has tested positive for the novel coronavirus.&nbsp;In June, Health Minister Satyender Jain had tested positive for Covid-19 and recovered.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard petition filed by Facebook India's VP and MD, Ajit Mohan, against the notice issued by Delhi Legislative Assembly for deposing before it. The court has given one week time to the respondent to file counter affidavit. The Delhi assembly's peace committee looking into Facebook's alleged&nbsp;role&nbsp;during the February riots in the national capital, deferred its meeting after the apex court directed it to not take any coercive step against Facebook and its VP &amp; MD Ajit Mohan, till October 15, when it will take up the matter for further hearing. Senior lawyer Abhishek Manu Singhvi representing Delhi Assembly Committee has however argued &lsquo;no coercive step was intended by Delhi Assembly against Facebook&rsquo;.

The Defence Research and Development Organisation on Tuesday successfully test fired the indigenously developed Laser Guided Anti Tank Guided Missile from Main Battle Tank (MBT) Arjun at KK Ranges in Ahmednagar in Maharashtra.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh tweeted congratulating the DRDO adding that India is proud of them for assiduously working towards reducing import dependency in the near future.
DRDO scientists said that the missile uses a warhead that has the capability to neutralise armoured vehicles which have Reactive Armours, which are specially designed protective armours used in military vehicles. The missile was fired at a range of around three kilometers in the test and successfully took out a target.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made it to Time magazine's &lsquo;100 Most Influential People 2020&rsquo; list.&nbsp;Modi is the only politician from India to have been featured in the 'Leaders' category.
Other world leaders who feature in the coveted list are people who have dominated global headlines over the past few months, including US President Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping,&nbsp;Joe Biden, Democratic challenger to Trump and Kamala Harris, his running mate.
Among the other Indians to who made it to the list are 82-year-old Bilkis, who was one of the most prominent faces during the anti-CAA protests at Shaheen Bagh in Delhi, Professor Ravindra Gupta who spearheaded a study that led to the second man in history being cured of HIV in London, last year.
Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai has also been named among the world&rsquo;s 100 most influential people along with Bollywood actor Ayushmann Khurrana in the 'Artist' category.

The death toll in the building collapse in Maharashtra's Bhiwandi climbed up&nbsp;to 40 on Wednesday. Police said that the dead included at least 18 children, while around 25 people, including a four-year-old boy, have been rescued from the debris. The rescue efforts are still on two days after the collapse. The 43-year-old building had caved in in the wee hours of Monday. The three-storey building had 40 flats and around 150 persons lived there, officials said. Two civic officials have been suspended in connection with the collapse and an offence has been registered against the building owner.

82-year-old Bilkis, one of the dadis of the Shaheen Bagh movement, has been named by the Time Magazine in its list of &lsquo;100 Most Influential People of 2020&rsquo;. Bilkis was at the forefront of the protest against CAA-NRC. Bilkis was among hundreds of women who braved biting Capital cold to protest against the new law and proposed NRC. The Time Magazine article authored by journalist Rana Ayyub talks of how Bilkis became the voice of the marginalised.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Sri Lankan counterpart Mahinda Rajapaksa will hold a virtual bilateral summit on September 26, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Wednesday. The summit will be an opportunity for the leaders to comprehensively review the broad framework of the bilateral relationship. The two leaders are expected to deliberate on a host of issues like ways to further deepen anti-terror cooperation, boost overall defence and trade ties as well as implementation of India's development projects in Sri Lanka. The long-pending Tamil issue in Sri Lanka is also likely to figure in the talks.

Opposition parties will meet President Ram Nath Kovind at 5 pm on Wednesday amid the ongoing row over contentious farm bills. Only five opposition leaders will be allowed to meet the President, reports said. On Tuesday, opposition leaders boycotted parliament in protest over the three bills related to the agriculture sector and suspension of eight MPs over chaos and "unruly behaviour" in the Rajya Sabha. Meanwhile, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said suspension of the MPs will be revoked only if they apologise.

The ICMR chief, Dr Balram Bhargava, has said that no vaccine for respiratory diseases has a 100% efficacy and ones with 50-100% efficacy can be approved for use against the coronavirus, the Times of India has reported. He added that although maximum efficacy will be sought, but the WHO has said that a vaccine with 50% efficacy can be accepted. The comment came a day after Central Drugs and Standard Control Organisation issued a note for Covid-19 vaccine that suggested researchers may not necessarily look for the preventive capacity of a vaccine. and settle for one that protects a person from developing severe infection.

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