Name: Over 500 challans issued for flouting rules in Delhi
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Description: The Delhi Police on Monday issued over 500 challans for not wearing face masks and violating social distancing norms amid the coronavirus outbreak, officials said. According to the police, 572 challans were issued for not wearing protective face masks, spitting and violation of social distancing norms. A total of 17,919 challans have been issued in the national capital since June 15.

The Delhi Police on Monday issued over 500 challans for not wearing face masks and violating social distancing norms amid the coronavirus outbreak, officials said. According to the police, 572 challans were issued for not wearing protective face masks, spitting and violation of social distancing norms. A total of 17,919 challans have been issued in the national capital since June 15.

The Delhi Police on Monday issued over 500 challans for not wearing face masks and violating social distancing norms amid the coronavirus outbreak, officials said. According to the police, 572 challans were issued for not wearing protective face masks, spitting and violation of social distancing norms. A total of 17,919 challans have been issued in the national capital since June 15.

A day after sacking him from the posts of deputy CM and Rajasthan Congress chief, the Congress' on Wednesday said that the doors have not closed for Sachin Pilot.
On a day that Pilot refuted reports of him joining the BJP saying he is still with the Congress, the party's national general secretary and Rajasthan in-charge Avinash Pande tweeted: "May God give... good sense and he realises his mistake. I pray that he comes out of the elusive trap of BJP".
Earlier in the day, Pilot and other rebel MLAs were served disqualification notices by the Assembly speaker for revolting against the party and skipping the MLAs meets.
Pilot has said that he worked very hard to bring the Congress back in power in Rajasthan and clarified that he is not joining the BJP. He added those spreading the rumours want to tarnish his image in the eyes of the Gandhis.&nbsp;

West Bengal police have arrested one person in connection with the death of BJP MLA Debendra Nath Roy, whose body was found hanging, near his home on Monday. The CID has taken Niloy Singh, whose name was written in the suicide note found in Roy's pocket, in custody. The death has triggered a bitter war between the BJP and the Trinamool with the saffron party alleging murder and attacking the ruling party for spiralling law and order in the state. The Trinamool has hit back at the BJP for politicising a suicide case. Both the parties have also met President Ram Nath Kovind with their representation on the case.

HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank along with Minister of State for HRD, Sanjay Dhotre launched a low-cost Covid-19 test developed by Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT) Delhi on Wednesday.&nbsp;Called 'Corosure', the test is being dubbed as the world&rsquo;s most affordable probe free RT-PCR based Covid-19 diagnostic kit, however the price has not been made public yet. The test kit uses an alternative method for testing Covid-19 samples and is being launched by Delhi-based pharma&nbsp;company&nbsp;Newtech Medical Devices. As per reports, the test kit can be used to conduct two million tests per month at an extremely affordable cost.&nbsp;The product, has been approved by the&nbsp;ICMR and the&nbsp;DCGI.
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PTI, New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday launched a fierce attack on the government's foreign policy, saying the country is losing power and respect everywhere and the current dispensation does not know what to do.
"India's global strategy is in tatters. We are losing power and respect everywhere and the Government of India has no idea what to do," he tweeted.
He cited a media report that claimed that Iran has dropped India from the Chabahar rail project, citing funding delays.
The former Congress president has been attacking the government on its foreign policy and the Congress party has been alleging that it has failed.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that the coronavirus pandemic has presented new challenges for the world which everyone needs to be prepared for. Addressing a digital conclave on World Youth Skills Day, PM Modi also presented a new mantra for the youth to stay relevant in the time of crisis and empowers them. Stressing that it is very important to stay relevant in the current time, PM said "the mantra is: Skill, re-skill and upskill.&rdquo;

The results of over 18.89 lakh students who registered to appear for the class 10 board exams has been declared. There has been a marginal increase in pass percentage since last year, 91.46% students passed the class 10 exam.&nbsp;
This year, Trivandrum has emerged as the best performing district with 99.28%, followed by Chennai with 98.95% and Bengaluru with 98.23%.
Students can&nbsp;check their results at&nbsp;cbse.nic.in&nbsp;or&nbsp;cbseresults.nic.in. The results will also be available at&nbsp;Digi locker and Umang app.
The CBSE class 10 results 2020 are special because this year, the marks have been awarded without conducting all the exams.
In a tweet, HRD&nbsp;Minister Ramesh&nbsp;Pokhriyal&nbsp;Nishank&nbsp;congratulated&nbsp;parents, teachers &amp; students,&nbsp;for making it possible. He reiterated, students' health &amp; quality education is a priority.

PTI, New Delhi: The fourth round of India-China military talks to discuss the border tension lasted for close to 15 hours. The marathon meeting between Lt Gen level officers that started at 11:30 am on Tuesday ended around 2 am on Wednesday.
The Indian delegation was led by Lieutenant General Harinder Singh, commander of the Leh-based 14 Corps, while Major General Liu Lin, commander of the South Xinjiang military region, was led the Chinese side.
The key focus of the talks was on rolling out the phase two of the disengagement process. Also on the table reportedly was firming up modalities for withdrawal of forces and weapons from the rear bases in a time-bound and verifiable manner. Reports quoting sources said that the aim is the further de-escalation of the situation at various friction points.
The third round of military talks on June 30 lasted for 12 hours.
The talks are taking place days after implementation of the first phase of the disengagement process from the friction points.
China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) has already completed pulling back troops from Gogra, Hot Springs and Galwan Valley and significantly thinned down its presence in the ridgeline of Finger Four in the Pangong Tso area in the last one week as demanded by India.
In line with a mutually agreed decision, the two sides created a minimum buffer zone of three kilometres in most of the friction points where they were locked in a standoff.
The formal process of disengagement of troops began on June 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 tension in the area.

Former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot, who was removed as the president of Congress&rsquo; state unit on Tuesday, has said that he is not going to join the BJP. &ldquo;I am not joining BJP. Those saying that are just trying to lower me in the eyes of Gandhis,&rdquo; he told Hindustan Times.
Pilot also cancelled a press conference scheduled for Wednesday morning. Pilot&nbsp; insisted that he is still with the Congress&nbsp;amid reports that he is in serious talks with senior BJP leaders.
Sachin Pilot and other rebel Congress MLAs from Rajasthan have been issued disqualification notice by the Assembly speaker. The move comes a day after Sachin Pilot was sacked as deputy CM and state party chief after his open rebellion. The speaker has asked the leaders to respond by Friday to the disqualification notices.
A meeting of Congress MLAs on Tuesday had unanimously&nbsp;resolved to sack Pilot and his supporters after the attempted to topple the Gehlot govt. The chief minister, who has the support of close to 100 MLAs is banking on Pilot and his supporters' disqualification from the Assembly, which will bring down the majority mark in case of a floor test.
Moments after party's action against him on Tuesday,Sachin&nbsp;Pilot took to twitter and wrote that &lsquo;truth can be troubled, cannot be defeated&rsquo;.
The 42-year-old leader, who didn&rsquo;t attend a second meeting of Congress legislature party on Tuesday, also&nbsp;changed his twitter bio. The action against, Pilot, who is campaign in the national capital, comes after he also skipped the legislative meet on Monday. Over 100 MLAs&nbsp;had turned up for the meet on Monday, which passed a resolution backing Pilot's rival and chief minister Ashok&nbsp;Ghelot. The Congress after the Monday's meeting had left the door open for Pilot and had requested him to join the Tuesday's meeting in Jaipur.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; In his changed twitter bio, the former minister at the Centre,&nbsp;has removed the designation of Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister and state&nbsp;president. Besides other information, Pilot&rsquo;s bio now reads that his is an MLA from&nbsp;Tonk.&nbsp;&nbsp;

India for the first time reported over 29,000 coronavirus cases in a single day. In the biggest one-day spike, 29,429 Covid cases were reported in 24 hours between Tuesday to Wednesday, health ministry data showed. This took the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 9,36,6181. 582 deaths were also reported in the same period taking the total number of fatalities to 24,309. But the good news amid the Covid gloom is the rising recovery rate that stands at over 63%. Close to 6 lakh people have recovered from the contagion so far. According to ICMR, over 3 lakh and 20 thousand samples were tested for Covid on Tuesday.

Sachin Pilot and other rebel Congress MLAs from Rajasthan have been issued disqualification notice by the Assembly speaker. The move comes a day after Sachin Pilot was sacked as deputy CM and state party chief after his open rebellion. The speaker has asked the leaders to respond by Friday to the disqualification notices.
A meeting of Congress MLAs on Tuesday had unanimously&nbsp;resolved to sack Pilot and his supporters after the attempted to topple the Gehlot govt. The chief minister, who has the support of close to 100 MLAs is banking on Pilot and his supporters' disqualification from the Assembly, which will bring down the majority mark in case of a floor test.
Moments after party's action against him on Tuesday,Sachin&nbsp;Pilot took to twitter and wrote that &lsquo;truth can be troubled, cannot be defeated&rsquo;.
The 42-year-old leader, who didn&rsquo;t attend a second meeting of Congress legislature party on Tuesday, also&nbsp;changed his twitter bio. The action against, Pilot, who is campaign in the national capital, comes after he also skipped the legislative meet on Monday. Over 100 MLAs&nbsp;had turned up for the meet on Monday, which passed a resolution backing Pilot's rival and chief minister Ashok&nbsp;Ghelot. The Congress after the Monday's meeting had left the door open for Pilot and had requested him to join the Tuesday's meeting in Jaipur.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; In his changed twitter bio, the former minister at the Centre,&nbsp;has removed the designation of Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister and state&nbsp;president. Besides other information, Pilot&rsquo;s bio now reads that his is an MLA from&nbsp;Tonk.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Pilot&rsquo;s two loyalists&nbsp;Vishvendra&nbsp;Singh, Ramesh Meena have also been dropped from the Gehlot Cabinet. Govind Singh&nbsp;Dotasra&nbsp;has been made Congress state president and will replace Pilot. Hem Singh&nbsp;Shekhawat&nbsp;has taken over as the&nbsp;Sewa&nbsp;Dal state president.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; On Monday, the Rajasthan Congress Legislature Party passed a resolution to extend their support to the Ashok Gehlot-led government, which Pilot claimed, has been reduced to a minority.&nbsp;
Rajasthan governor Kalraj Mishra&nbsp;accepted Gehlot's proposal to remove Sachin Pilot as Deputy CM, and Vishvender Singh and Ramesh Meena as ministers.

Days after India banned 59 Chinese mobile apps, China raised the issue during a bilateral meeting with New Delhi held recently, news agency ANI reported quoting govt sources. The Indian side made it very clear to the Chinese that the action was taken in view of the security issues and it did not want the data-related to its citizens to be compromised, the report added. India had recently banned 59 Chinese apps, including the widely-used social media platforms such as TikTok, WeChat and Helo, citing threat to the nation's sovereignty and security.

PTI, Chandigarh: Amid a surge in coronavirus cases, Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij on Tuesday said the state government may impose a curfew or seal borders of its worst-hit four districts falling in the National Capital Region.
The state has so far reported 22,628 coronavirus cases, of which 15,425 have been detected in Gurgaon, Faridabad, Sonipat and Jhajjar, which fall in the National Capital Region (NCR).
So far, 238 of 312 fatalities in the state have been reported from the districts adjoining national capital Delhi.
Gurgaon and Faridabad are the hardest hit as 7,126 and 5,665 cases, respectively, have surfaced there so far. Both districts have reported 109 and 101 fatalities, respectively.
&ldquo;We can think of sealing the boundaries of these four districts; we can think of imposing a curfew in these four districts,&rdquo; Vij said.
Earlier in the day, Vij, who is also the state's Health Minister, had said the state's recovery rate is over 75 per cent, which is quite good.
He said adequate arrangements, including isolation facilities, doctors and medicines are there to deal with coronavirus cases.
&ldquo;We are conducting over 15,000 tests per million. I have issued orders for two lakh rapid antigen testing kits, which will help us scale up our testing,&rdquo; he said.
"Eighty per cent of our cases come from these districts (Gurgaon, Faridabad, Sonipat, Jhajjar). If need arises, in the interest of Haryana, if we have to impose stricter curbs to contain the spread of the infection, we will not hesitate to do so,&rdquo; said Vij.
When asked if the state government could impose a lockdown in the worst-affected areas, Vij replied, &ldquo;In Haryana's interest, whatever is required to be done, I will do that.&rdquo; Later in Chandigarh, Vij said one thing is clear that the surge in infections in the districts adjoining Delhi is linked to the national capital.

PTI, New Delhi: Delhi hospitals have over 11,000 beds available for coronavirus patients, according to the city government's health bulletin issued on Tuesday.
According to the bulletin, Delhi has a total of 15,300 beds and out of these 11,106 are lying vacant. In view of the Covid-19 situation in the national capital, the Delhi government has also made arrangement of beds in hotels and banquet halls which are linked to hospitals.
Delhi, on Tuesday, recorded 1,606 fresh coronavirus cases taking the tally in the city to over 1.15 lakh, while the death toll from the disease mounted to 3,446.
Last month, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had said Delhi would need 1.5 lakh beds in healthcare facilities by July 31 once people start coming to the city for treatment from other states.
Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain had said that around 7,000 beds will be occupied by June 15, and 15,000 beds will be occupied by June 30. However, experts have said that Delhi might need a fresh forecast for the end of July since there has been a decline in cases. The government had predicted that the capital would see 5.5 lakh cases by July end.

Facebook or the Force? The Delhi high court on Tuesday told an army officer to take his pick. The court asked the army officer to either abide by his organisation&rsquo;s mandate or resign while declining his plea seeking a stay on the army&rsquo;s directive to soldiers to delete 89 apps from their smartphones.
The court declined to stay the order as the matter related to the country&rsquo;s security and safety. 
The officer, Lieutenant Colonel PK Choudhary, moved the court after he was directed to remove the applications and also delete his Facebook and Instagram profiles. "It cannot work like this. You are part of an organisation. You have to abide by its mandate,&rdquo; the court told&nbsp;Lieutenant Colonel PK Choudhary, who moved the court after he was directed to remove the applications and also delete his Facebook and Instagram profiles. &ldquo;If you are so dear to FB, then put in your papers. See you have to make a choice, what do you want to do. You have other choices which are also irreversible,&rdquo; the court added. 
In his plea, the officer called himself an active Facebook user, who used the platform to connect with his friends and family as most of them are settled abroad, including his daughter.

Weeks after dropping him as a spokesperson, the Congress on Tuesday suspended Sanjay Jha for "anti-party activities and breach of discipline".
The action on entrepreneur-turned-politician comes weeks after he wrote a newspaper article critical of the country's oldest political party. Jha has been suspended with immediate effect for "anti-party activities and breach of discipline", Maharashtra Congress chief Balasaheb Thorat said in a statement. 
Soon after the article appeared in a leading English daily last month, the Congress had removed Jha as a national spokesperson of the party. 
Reacting to his suspension, Jha wondered what "anti- party activities" he had indulged in to invite the action from the Congress.
"I have just seen the press release. The least the Congress party could have done was to actually reach out to me and tell me that we are suspending you and these are the alleged acts of yours that have violated the protocol of the party constitution," he told a private news channel.
"I believe we are showing an extremely intolerant culture," Jha added.

PTI, New Delhi:&nbsp;No one should be turned away from hospitals due to higher cost of treatment, the Supreme Court said on Tuesday while asking the government to consider framing guidelines on the issue of cost of treatment for Covid-19 infection.
Though the apex court opined that &ldquo;cost of the treatment should not be higher at the present time," it also said that court is not equipped to either regulate cost of treatment or say what should be the best model of treatment for patients infected with coronavirus.
A bench comprising Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices R S Reddy and A S Bopanna, was hearing through video-conferencing a plea filed by advocate Sachin Jain who has sought a direction for regulating the cost of treatment of Covid-19 at private hospitals across the country.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, told the bench that government is looking into all the issues related to coronavirus and concerns raised by the petitioner would be taken care of. During the hearing, the bench referred to the affidavit filed earlier in the matter by the Centre which had said that there is no provision under the Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act, 2010 "whereby it is mandated that the private hospitals running on the public land shall treat Covid-19 patients on free basis". "It is again reiterated that such policies may only be defined and implemented by the respective state governments," the Centre&rsquo;s affidavit had said.
The counsel appearing for federation of private hospitals said that states have their own models and there cannot be a uniform pricing for all the states.
He said as far as charitable hospitals are concerned, they are already providing free treatment to Covid-19 patients.
He said each state is grappling with the problem of coronavirus and it is not that private hospitals are making money during the time of pandemic.
Jain claimed in the court that some private hospitals are charging exorbitant rates for Covid-19 treatment at this time of this pandemic.
The apex court said that concerned authority of Union health ministry should consider framing guideline on this aspect. In June, the apex court had asked private hospitals whether they were ready to provide treatment to Covid-19 infected patients at the charges prescribed under the government's Ayushman Bharat Scheme.

PTI, Kolkata:&nbsp;The West Bengal government on Tuesday extend the total lockdown in containment zones till July 19.
According to a notification by the Home Department, the rigorous containment in these areas would be extended from July 15 to July 19.
These zones are located in and around Kolkata, besides Jalpaiguri, Malda, Cooch Behar, Raiganj and Siliguri, it said.
The total lockdown was enforced in the containment zones from 5 pm of July 9 to stem the spike in Covid-19 cases.&nbsp;

Nine more people died on Tuesday as floods continued to ravage Assam. Reports say the floods have so far&nbsp;affect nearly 33 lakh people from 28 districts of the northeastern state.&nbsp;Barpeta&nbsp;is the worst-hit district with 5.49 lakh people affected in the deluge followed by 4.10 lakh people in Dhubri district.
A&nbsp;government report on Tuesday said&nbsp;371 villages&nbsp;are currently underwater and the floodwaters submerged 1.28 lakh hectares of agricultural land.&nbsp;Over&nbsp;44,108 people are currently taking shelter at 517 relief camps in 24 flood-hit districts.&nbsp;
Over 21 lakh domestic animals are also affected in the deluge.&nbsp;The water levels of all major rivers are flowing above danger level mark in many places of the state.&nbsp; &nbsp; Authorities in the state confirmed 77 deaths due to inundation and mudslides since the beginning of the floods late last month, and said vast tracts were still underwater with 26 of the state's 33 districts badly affected.&nbsp;

The Congress on Tuesday attacked the Narendra Modi government after a report in The Hindu newspaper claimed that&nbsp;Iran had decided to proceed with the Chabahar port rail project&nbsp;by itself citing funding delays from India.&nbsp;Claiming that China gave Iran a &lsquo;better deal&rsquo;, the&nbsp;main opposition party&nbsp;called the development a &lsquo;big loss&rsquo; for the country even as it questioned the diplomatic tactics of the Centre.
The report said that Iran had decided to proceed with the construction of a rail line from Chabahar port to Zahedan, along the border with Afghanistan, on its own following alleged delays from the Indian government in funding and starting the project.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Senior Congress leader Abhishek Manu&nbsp;Singhvi&nbsp;tweeted:&nbsp;&ldquo;This is the diplomacy of the Modi government that won laurels even without getting the work done,&nbsp;China&nbsp;worked quietly but gave them a better deal. Big loss for India. But you can&rsquo;t ask questions!&rdquo;&nbsp;
 The development comes in the backdrop of Iran&nbsp;finalising&nbsp;a 25-year strategic partnership deal with China worth $400 billion.&nbsp;The Hindu report said that the&nbsp;partnership will include Chinese involvement in Chabahar&rsquo;s duty free zone, an oil refinery nearby, and possibly a larger role in Chabahar port as well.
&nbsp;&nbsp; Chabahar, which is located 72 kilometers west of Pakistan&rsquo;s Gwadar port, holds immense strategic and economic significance for India.&nbsp;
India and Iran signed an agreement to construct the rail line four years ago.
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PTI, New Delhi:&nbsp;Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal inaugurated Delhi's second plasma bank at the state-run Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital on Tuesday, and asserted that plasma therapy was "really helpful" in saving lives of Covid-19 patients.
Kejriwal inaugurated the first plasma bank at the state-run Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences on July 2. He said over 200 people have taken plasma from ILBS so far.
"Plasma therapy is really helpful in saving lives. We cannot say it can save 100 percent of the lives...but the death rate has reduced in Delhi and plasma has a role in it," the chief minister said at the launch.
The LNJP Hospital is located in central Delhi, so it is easily accessible to those willing to donate plasma, he said.
Covid-19 patients can donate their plasma 14 days after recovery.
Such people should aged between 18 and 60 and weigh not less than 50 kg.
However, women who have been pregnant, people with diabetes, hypertension, cancer survivors, those with chronic heart, liver, lung and kidney diseases and high blood pressure cannot donate plasma.
"We do not want to store plasma in plasma bank forever, but no one should suffer for lack of plasma either. The arrangement should be such that those needing plasma get it easily. So far, no one has been denied plasma," Kejriwal said.
He said his government will continue setting up facilities and beds even if the beds for COVID-19 patients remain vacant to ensure there is no shortage if the cases increase.
He said the spread of COVID-19 in Delhi is gradually reducing.&nbsp; "The recovery rate is increasing very fast. Earlier, 35 out of 100 people tested would be diagnosed with coronavirus. Now only 7 or 8 people out of 100 are found positive.
The chief minister said the number of fatalities has also decreased.
"In mid-June, there were about 101 deaths per day but there are about 40 deaths now. All of us together have to reduce it further," he said.
However, Kejriwal cautioned people against any complacency.
"Nothing is known about COVID-19, it may rise again tomorrow. Therefore, we need to take precautions. We always have to wear a mask, maintain social distancing, wash our hands and sanitize them repeatedly," he said.
He also said the city government has successfully implemented the home isolation programme and there has been no death among those undergoing home isolation.
Kejriwal said he was happy that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also praised the model implemented in Delhi and everyone's cooperation in it.
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