Name: 'Normal practice': Rajnath plays down notice to Rahul
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Description: Playing down his ministry's notice to Congress President Rahul Gandhi over his citizenship issue, home minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday called it a routine process. Singh said that when an MP writes to any ministry raising a query, action is taken. He called it a normal practice.

Playing down his ministry's notice to Congress President Rahul Gandhi over his citizenship issue, home minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday called it a routine process. Singh said that when an MP writes to any ministry raising a query, action is taken. He called it a normal practice. 

Days after it informed the Parliament that it does not have a record of how many migrant workers died due to lockdown&nbsp;hardships, the govt informed the Rajya&nbsp;Sabha that 97 people died while travelling on the Shramik&nbsp;Special&nbsp; trains.&nbsp;
In a written answer to a question posed by TMC MP Derek O&rsquo;Brien on Friday, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal&nbsp;told the Upper House that based on the data provided by state&nbsp;police, 97 people have been reported dead till September 9 while travelling on special trains meant for migrant workers.
He also added that 87 bodies were sent for post-mortem&nbsp;and a total of 51 reports have been received from the state police. The reason for deaths in these reports have been shown as cardiac arrest/heart disease/brain hemorrhage/pre-existing chronic disease/chronic lung disease/chronic liver disease, Goyal&nbsp;said.&nbsp;

As the national capital continues to witness a spike in coronavirus cases, Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain said on Saturday attacked the Centre, saying&nbsp;the community spread of the&nbsp;deadly virus&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;city&nbsp;should have been admitted by now.&nbsp;Jain&nbsp;said only the Central government or the Indian Council of Medical Research can comment on the community spread of coronavirus in Delhi.&nbsp;The health minister also said&nbsp;the doubling rate in Delhi is about 40 days.&nbsp;Delhi's coronavirus tally breached the 2.38 lakh mark on Friday as the national capital detected 4,127 fresh cases while the death toll mounted to 4,907.&nbsp;

The Delhi Police on Friday arrested a freelance journalist and author under the Official Secrets Act. Police alleged that Rajeev Sharma, who has previously worked with UNI and The Tribune, had been found in possession of defence-related classified papers. Police said Sharma was passing sensitive information to Chinese intelligence. A Chinese woman and her Nepalese associate have also been arrested for paying Sharma large amounts of money routed through shell companies, the police said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the high-level meeting to mark 75th anniversary of the United Nations next week. The annual session of the UN General Assembly will begin on September 21 with a high-level meeting to commemorate the occasion. PM Modi will deliver the national statement on September 26 through a pre-recorded video statement. According to India&rsquo;s envoy to the UN Ambassador T S Tirumurti, the PM&rsquo;s speech will be "truly significant" as it comes ahead of India taking a seat at the powerful UN Security Council as an elected non-permanent member for a two-year term beginning January 1, 2021.

The Rajya Sabha on Saturday will take up the two contentious agriculture reform bills whose passage in the Lok Sabha on Thursday night led to fireworks in the house, with fault lines showing up within the NDA as well.
While opposition MPs staged a walkout, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, the lone Akali Dal leader in PM Modi's cabinet stepped down in protest of the bills.
In a series of tweets, Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused the opposition of trying to mislead farmers, while the Congress said the bills are a govt conspiracy to 'undo' the Green Revolution.
Opposition parties TMC and RSP have also opposed the two bills, along with BJP ally Shiromani Akali Dal who have called it 'anti-farmer'.

Jammu &amp; Kashmir LG Manoj Sinha&nbsp;on Saturday announced a ₹1,350 crores economic package for the businesses in the union territory. The package includes 5% interest subvention to every borrower, without any conditions for six months in the current financial year. Stamp duty will also be exempted up to March 2021 for all borrowers. 50% discount is to be given for a year in electricity and water bills as well. A customised Health-Tourism scheme by J&amp;K bank will be set up with good pricing and repayment options.&nbsp;Decision to extend maximum limit to Rs 2 lakh under the credit card scheme has been taken to benefit people working in handloom &amp; handicraft industry, who will be given 7% interest subvention. Special desk for youth on women enterprises is on its way too.

The CBI has named middleman Christian Michel in its supplementary chargesheet in the AgustaWestland case. The chargesheet names 15 individuals, the British national, Michel, who was extradited to India from Dubai in December 2018 and is currently lodged in Delhi's Tihar Jail. The CBI has also sought sanction to prosecute former defence secretary Shashi Kant Sharma. The supplementary chargesheet focuses on the role of Christian Michel and details how he influenced bureaucrats to ensure the contract was awarded to AgustaWestland. It also details how he received and transferred the alleged kickbacks to government officials, reports said.

More people in India recovered from the coronavirus than were infected in the last 24 hours, Health Ministry data released om Saturday morning showed. India is the second worst-hit country by the coronavirus pandemic, after the US. While the country recorded 93,337 new Covid-19 infections in the last 24 hours, 95,880 people recovered from the deadly virus in the same period. Recovery rate in India currently stands at over 78%. More than 42 lakh people have recovered from the contagion so far.

With more than 30 MPs, including Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari and Prahlad Patel, testing positive over the last week, Covid concerns have peaked in Parliament and may lead to cutting short of the Monsoon Session. The Indian Express, quoting sources, reported that the session may be cut short if the Bills for which ordinances were issued during the lockdown are passed by both Houses. The session may be concluded by the middle of next week, the report said quoting two Opposition MPs.

The National Investigation Agency has busted a terror module with the arrest of 9 alleged Al-Qaeda terrorists from Bengal and Kerala. The arrests were made after multiple raids in Bengal's Murshidabad and Kerala's Ernakulam. While six terrorists were arrested from Bengal, three terrorists were arrested from Kerala in the early morning raids on Saturday. The agency said that the group was planning to undertake terrorist attacks at vital installations in the country. The NIA added that a large quantity of incriminating materials, including digital devices, documents, jihadi literature, and weapons have been seized from their possession.

Pakistan army violated ceasefire along the Line of Control in Jammu on more than 3,000 occasion in eight months this year, the government told Parliament this week. 3,186 ceasefire violations is the highest number in a year for 17 years - since the 2003 Ceasefire Agreement was brokered by then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. In addition, there were also 242 incidents of cross-border firing between January and August in the Jammu region, along the international border with Pakistan. The govt informed that 8 soldiers and a number of civilians were killed in Pakistani firing.

President Ram Nath Kovind while addressing the Visitor's Conference on 'Implementation of National Education Policy 2020, said &nbsp;effective implementation of NEP &nbsp;is likely to restore India&rsquo;s glory as a great centre of learning. Stressing that NEP 2020 aims to increase Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in higher education to 50% by 2035, the President highlighted the twin objectives of inclusion and excellence. He also added that NEP seeks to discourage overemphasis on grades and promote critical thinking instead. He noted that Academic Bank of Credits (ABC) that will digitally store academic credits earned, will be of great help to students.

India's coronavirus case tally on Saturday crossed the 53-lakh mark with a spike of over 93,000 new infections. According to the health ministry data on Saturday morning, 93,337 new cases &amp; 1,247 deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours. The total number of fatalities due to the virus has now crossed 85,000. India has seen a sharp spike of over 90,000 daily cases on 12 out of the last 13 days. The total number of active cases in the country stands at over 10 lakh, while more than 42 lakh have recovered from the contagion so far.

The Rajasthan govt has decided to allow family members to meet Covid patients undergoing in hospitals, The Indian Express has reported. The decision has been taken after concerns over mental well-being and loneliness of coronavirus patients who till now can only contact families via video calls. Several patients who died spent their last hours without their loved ones around them. Now, family members will be allowed to meet the patients wearing PPE kits, masks and gloves during the visiting hours decided by the hospital. They can also get the patients home-cooked food as per the prescribed protocol.

The Delhi High Court on Friday pulled up Delhi Police over the use of excessive force during the violence at the Jamia Milia Islamia university in December last year. The court asked the police what action has been taken against police officers who allegedly used excessive force against the Jamia students. Citing a report by the National Human Rights Commission the court said that it had pointed out instances of police violence and that no action had been taken so far. Delhi Police's lawyer said that an enquiry is on against individual cases where some police officers used excessive force.

Islamabad, PTI: Pakistan on Friday rejected India's demand that an Indian lawyer or a Queen's counsel should be appointed for death-row prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav to ensure a free and fair trial in this country.
Foreign Office spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri, replying to a question during a media briefing, said India has been consistently making the "unrealistic demand" of allowing a lawyer from outside Pakistan to represent Jadhav, sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court for alleged spying.
&ldquo;We have informed India that only those lawyers are allowed to appear in Pakistani courts who have a license to practice law in Pakistan. This is in line with international legal practice. There can be no change in this position,&rdquo; he said.
Queen's Counsel is a barrister or advocate, appointed Counsel to the UK Crown on the recommendation of the Lord Chancellor.
Earlier this month, the Islamabad High Court in Pakistan directed the federal government to give India another chance to appoint a lawyer to represent Jadhav and adjourned hearing for a month.
Pakistan's Parliament on Tuesday extended for four months an ordinance that allowed Jadhav to file an appeal against his conviction in a high court as required by the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said the government of Pakistan has not been able to fulfil its obligations on implementation of the ICJ judgment in letter and spirit.
"It has not yet addressed the core issues, which include provision of all documents related to the case, providing unconditional and unimpeded consular access to Kulbhusan Jadhav and appointment of an Indian lawyer or a Queen's counsel to ensure a free and fair trial," he said at an online media briefing on Thursday.
In 2017, India approached the ICJ against Pakistan for denial of consular access to Jadhav and challenging the death sentence handed to him by a military court.
The Hague-based ICJ ruled in July 2019 that Pakistan must undertake an "effective review and reconsideration" of the conviction and sentence of Jadhav and also to grant consular access to India without further delay.
India has slammed Pakistan for adopting a "farcical" approach in denying available legal remedies to Jadhav against his death sentence in contravention of the ICJ order.
Fifty-year-old retired Indian Navy officer Jadhav was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of espionage and terrorism in April 2017.

Akali Dal leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal, who resigned from the Narendra Modi Cabinet on Thursday in protest against three farm bills, has said that she failed to convince the Cabinet over the farmers' issues. In an interview to the Hindustan Times, Harsimrat said that she couldn't make her Cabinet colleagues understand that Punjab's apprehensions related to the farm bills were different from those in other parts of the country. She, however, insisted that the Akali-BJP alliance remained intact and that she has quit to support the farmers on the new bills.

A discussion on the PM Cares fund turned into a heated argument in the Lok Sabha, with exchanges between BJP MPs and the opposition leaders.
As many opposition leaders criticised the PM CARES fund during a discussion on the Taxation Bill, Union Minister Anurag Thakur accused Gandhi family of &lsquo;cheating&rsquo; the people by accumulating public money by creating funds under different names. 
"Nehru ji ordered the creation of Prime Minister&rsquo;s National Relief Fund in 1948 like a royal order but its registration has not been done even till today. How did it get FCRA clearance?, " he said.
Thakur&nbsp;said the Congress was opposing the PM Cares Fund, just for the sake of it, just how they opposed EVMs &amp; then lost many elections.&nbsp;

All schools in the national capital will continue to remain closed till October 5 in view of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Delhi government announced on Friday.
However, online teaching and learning activities will continue as usual, the official order issued by the Directorate of Education (DoE) said.
School principals are authorised to call staff as per requirement for smooth conduct of online classes or any other work.
Universities and schools across the country have been closed since March 16 when the Centre announced a countrywide classroom shutdown as part of measures to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Paytm on Friday evening in a tweet said it's back on Google Play Store, hours after it was pulled down for allegedly violating gambling policies.
Earlier on Friday, in a blog post the company said its recently launched &lsquo;Paytm Cricket League&rsquo; was found in violation of the Play Store policies on gambling. The fintech major said &lsquo;Paytm Cricket League&rsquo; allows users to engage in their passion of cricket and get cashback. The game allows users to get player stickers after each transaction, collect them and receive Paytm Cashback.
Google, in its own blog post on Friday, said it does not allow apps facilitating sports betting and hence removed the app from Play store.

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