The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, to amend the provisions under the Motor Vehicles Act of 1988. The Bill aims to enforce stricter penalties for road traffic violations. The Bill was previously introduced in 2017 but couldn't pass the Rajya Sabha and lapsed with the dissolution of the 16th Lok Sabha. Union Road Transport Minister, Nitin Gadkari said it will correct our mistake of being number one in road accidents.

The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, to amend the provisions under the Motor Vehicles Act of 1988. The Bill aims to enforce stricter penalties for road traffic violations. The Bill was previously introduced in 2017 but couldn't pass the Rajya Sabha and lapsed with the dissolution of the 16th Lok Sabha. Union Road Transport Minister, Nitin Gadkari said it will correct our mistake of being number one in road accidents.

In clear signs that the political turmoil in Rajasthan is not dying down soon, Congress leader&nbsp;Sachin&nbsp;Pilot has issued a statement saying he will not attend the meeting of party lawmakers called by chief minister Ashok&nbsp;Gehlot&nbsp;on Monday.&nbsp;Deputy chief&nbsp;minister&nbsp;Pilot who is camping in Delhi along with his loyalist MLAs, has said in the statement that&nbsp;Ashok&nbsp;Gehlot&nbsp;government is in the minority and&nbsp;has claimed support of&nbsp;30&nbsp;Congress lawmakers.
Reportedly,&nbsp;Pilot has sought time from the Congress high command for a meeting. News outlets had also reported that&nbsp;Pilot also had an elaborate discussion with Jyotiraditya Scindia, his former party colleague and friend, who recently jumped ship to the BJP.

Sub-inspector KK Sharma, one of the policemen who has been arrested over allegations of tipping off killed gangster Vikas&nbsp;Dubey&nbsp;has moved Supreme Court seeking protection for himself and his family. Sharma&nbsp;in his plea has said he fears that the Special Task Force will gun him down in an encounter. He has been accused of tipping off Vikas&nbsp;Dubey&nbsp;before a police raid that led to 8 policemen being killed in an ambush by the gangster in Uttar&nbsp;Pradesh's&nbsp;Bikru&nbsp;village.&nbsp;

The Congress party is sending a fire fighting team to Jaipur by a chartered plane. Multiple reports quoting sources said that the Congress president Sonia Gandhi has asked Ajay&nbsp;Maken, RS&nbsp;Surjewala&nbsp;and&nbsp;Avinash&nbsp;Pande&nbsp;to go to Jaipur and speak with party MLAs. Meanwhile an India Today&nbsp;report quoting sources said that the&nbsp;Gandhis&nbsp;have asked&nbsp;Sachin&nbsp;Pilot to return to Jaipur and work under the leadership of Ashok Ghelot.&nbsp;

Former Congress leader&nbsp;Jyotiraditya&nbsp;Scindia, whose rebellion led to the fall of Kamal Nath government in Madhya Pradesh, has backed Rajasthan deputy chief minister&nbsp;Sachin&nbsp;Pilot. Backing his erstwhile colleague,&nbsp;Scindia, the BJP Rajya Sabha MP, said&nbsp;that he feels sad that Polit too is being&nbsp;&lsquo;sidelined and persecuted&rsquo; by Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.&nbsp;He further said that it shows that&nbsp;&lsquo;talent and capability find little credence&rsquo;&nbsp;in the Congress party.&nbsp; &nbsp;

Stating that the Congress President Sonia Gandhi has been updated about the political developments in Rajasthan,&nbsp;Avinash&nbsp;Pande, the party&rsquo;s general secretary in-charge of the state, has said that all the party lawmakers are in touch with him and the Ashok&nbsp;Ghelot&nbsp;govt will last its full term. Accusing the BJP of trying to&nbsp;destablise&nbsp;the Rajasthan government,&nbsp;Pande&nbsp;said he is trying to&nbsp;reach out to Deputy Chief Minister&nbsp;Sachin&nbsp;Pilot and has left a message for him. The Congress general secretary said there is no harm in joining the&nbsp;horse trading&nbsp;probe by the Special Operations Group and everyone should cooperate.&nbsp;A letter asking Pilot to appear for questioning in an investigation into alleged attempts to destabilize his own government is believed to have pushed the Congress to breaking point in the state.&nbsp;&nbsp;

In an apparent show of strength amid speculation over his rift with deputy&nbsp;Sachin&nbsp;Pilot, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has summoned Sunday night a meeting of&nbsp;all party&nbsp;MLAs.&nbsp;&nbsp;Several ministers and MLAs visited Gehlot&rsquo;s home during the day while reports said Pilot, who is also the state Congress president, and some MLAs close to him are noayw in Delhi.&nbsp;The meeting at CM&rsquo;s official residence is scheduled to take place on Monday at 10.30am.&nbsp;Independent MLAs&nbsp;supporting the Gehlot government have also been invited.&nbsp;The posturing comes amid allegations by Gehlot that the BJP is trying to lure Congress MLAs to topple the state government.&nbsp;The BJP has dismissed the claim, saying the developments reflect a power struggle between Gehlot and Pilot.&nbsp;

The Uttar Pradesh government has ordered a judicial inquiry into the July 3 ambush in&nbsp;Bikru&nbsp;village wherein eight policemen were killed and also the July 10 encounter killing of main accused Vikas Dubey near Kanpur. The probe will be headed by Retired Justice Shashikant Agarwal with its headquarters in Kanpur. The probe report will be submitted within two months.&nbsp;The probe will also cover the encounters of criminals done by police during this period.&nbsp;Six criminals, including Dubey, were killed in these encounters between July 3 and July 10.&nbsp;According to an official release, the judicial commission will also investigate the police-criminals nexus to check recurrence of such incidents in future.&nbsp;The commission has been tasked to suggest measures to stop such nexus from developing.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

As news reports came in of Congress leader and Rajasthan&nbsp;Deputy Chief Minister Sachin&nbsp;Pilot being in talks with the BJP, just months after Jyotiraditya&nbsp;Scindia&nbsp;joined the saffron&nbsp;party,&nbsp;senior Congress leader Kapil&nbsp;Sibal&nbsp;tweeted that he is worried for the party. He asked if the Congress will wake up when it is too late. According to reports Sachin Pilot is in Delhi with over a dozen of his loyal&nbsp;MLAs.

In the second part of his interview with Shiv&nbsp;Sena&nbsp;mouthpiece&nbsp;Saamana, NCP chief Sharad&nbsp;Pawar&nbsp;weighed on the political and economic situation in the country. The Maratha strongman said to a question asked by&nbsp;Saamana&nbsp;executive editor and&nbsp;Sena&nbsp;MP Sanjay Raut that&nbsp;country needs another Manmohan Singh.&nbsp;&nbsp;Speaking on the present state of the Indian economy,&nbsp;Pawar&nbsp;said Prime Minister Modi should consult economists and experts like Manmohan Singh to revive the economy.&nbsp;To a question on&nbsp;PM&nbsp;Modi calling him a&nbsp;&lsquo;political guru&rsquo;,&nbsp;Pawar&nbsp;said there is no such thing as guru in politics.&nbsp;Targeting the Centre, he said there is no dialogue&nbsp;between the Modi government and leaders of other parties.&nbsp;He said when Manmohan Singh, Pranab Mukherjee, P Chidambaram were finance ministers, they would constantly in touch with experts and political leaders cutting across party lines to ascertain their views on various issues facing the country.&nbsp;

To stop the spread of Covid-19 infection, the Uttar Pradesh government has decided to implement strict lockdown across the state on weekends. Additional Chief Secretary&nbsp;Awanish&nbsp;Awasthi said the lockdown on weekends will be implemented from the coming Saturday and Sunday especially in the crowded areas. The markets and offices will remain closed on these days. However, the banks will remain open.&nbsp;The lockdown will remain effective in both urban and rural areas of the state.&nbsp;The official said the weekend lockdown&nbsp;will be in place for the month of July at least.

Rajasthan&nbsp;Chief Minister&nbsp;Ashok&nbsp;Gehlot&nbsp;has&nbsp;blamed the media for misrepresenting&nbsp;the matter of summons being issued to Deputy Chief Minister Sachin&nbsp;Pilot. Gehlot&nbsp;tweeted that the Special Operations Group is&nbsp;investigating a complaint by Congress MLAs&nbsp;that BJP&nbsp;is trying&nbsp;to destabilise the Rajasthan&nbsp;govt and they have issued summons to the Chief Minister, Congress chief whip and a few ministers in this regard as well and just the Deputy Chief Minister. He said it is not appropriate for the media to misrepresent the matter. His tweet comes after reports that Sachin&nbsp;Pilot flew to Delhi with loyalist MLAs&nbsp;because he was miffed with the SOG&nbsp;notice for questioning.&nbsp;

India is at a 'good position' in the battle against the coronavirus pandemic and the country will fight the disease with determination and enthusiasm, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Sunday. Shah spoke after participating in a mega plantation drive initiated by the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) that has a target to plant about 1.37 crore saplings in their country-wide campuses by this month-end. "It was feared that how would a large country like ours would face this challenge given that we have a federal structure of governance, dense population of 130 crore people and no single chain of command. But 130 crore people of the country, all the states and every individual fought this battle against COVID-19 as one nation", he said.

Rajasthan's deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot arrived in Delhi on Sunday morning with some of his loyalist MLAs and may talk to party leadership regarding the developing political crisis in the state, say reports. Pilot met senior party leader Ahmed Patel on Saturday. The flurry of meetings comes amid a slugfest over the BJP's alleged attempts to topple the Congress-led Rajasthan government. Reports say Pilot told Patel at a meeting late on Saturday night that chief minister Ashok Gehlot was trying to sideline him and was given assurances that &ldquo;injustice will not be allowed to happen to him&rdquo;.

India saw the biggest daily jump in coronavirus cases on Sunday as 28,637 new infections were identified in 24 hours. The total case count is now near 8.5 lakh at 8,49,553. India also witnessed 551 deaths during the last 24-hour period, taking the total death toll to 22,674. 2,92,258 are active cases, and 5,34,621 have been cured. Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Delhi continue to be the top 3 worst-hit states.

The Centre has petitioned a court in Rajasthan to stop any of the Chinese companies whose 59 apps it recently banned from obtaining an injunction to block the order, according to the legal filing.&nbsp;India last month outlawed dozens of Chinese apps including ByteDance's&nbsp;video-sharing app TikTok, Alibaba's UC Browser and Tencent's messaging app WeChat, saying they posed a "threat to sovereignty and integrity". The government had presented a so-called caveat in the High Court of Rajasthan, suggesting it expects one or more of the companies to challenge the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology's ban.&nbsp;Such caveats are typically filed to prevent a ruling in favour of companies without hearing the government.

Patidar leader Hardik Patel was appointed the new working president of the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee on Saturday. 26 year old Patel rose to prominence when he led an agitation in 2015 demanding that the Patidar community be given benefits of the quota for backward castes.&nbsp;Hardik Patel's outfit Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti, which was at the forefront of the agitation for reservation benefit in government jobs and college admissions, had declared its support to the Congress party in the local body elections in 2015 and Gujarat assembly polls in 2017.&nbsp;He joined the Congress on March 12, 2019, but did not contest the Lok Sabha election that year due to his conviction in a case.

Actor Amitabh Bachchan, on Saturday said that he has tested positive for the coronavirus infection. Taking to Twitter, Bachchan said he has been admitted to Nanavati Hospital in Mumbai. His son, actor Abhishek Bachchan has also been tested positive for the coronavirus. He tweeted, "both my father and I tested positive for Covid-19, both of us have mild symptoms and have been admitted to hospital. They&nbsp; have informed all the required authorities and their family and staff are all being tested, he requested all to stay calm and not panic. They are both in Mumbai's&nbsp;Nanavati&nbsp;hospital and their health is stable now without any complications.

With India and China attempting to lower weeks of border tension in eastern Ladakh, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday said a disengagement and de-escalation process has been agreed upon between the two countries and it is "very much a work in progress". During a video&nbsp;interactive session at the India Global Week, Jaishankar&nbsp;said, what happened is that the two countries have agreed on the need to disengage because troops on both sides are deployed very close to each other and it is very much a work in progress.&nbsp;Jaishankar's comments came a day after India and China held another round of diplomatic talks during which both sides resolved to push ahead with "complete disengagement" of troops in eastern Ladakh in a timely manner for "full restoration" of peace and tranquility.

Former India cricketer and Uttar&nbsp;Pradesh&nbsp;Cabinet&nbsp;Minister Chetan Chauhan&nbsp;has tested positive for Covid-19. Chauhan&nbsp;has been admitted&nbsp;to Sanjay Gandhi PGI hospital in Lucknow.&nbsp;A minister in Yogi Adityanath's cabinet, Chauhan&nbsp;also played&nbsp;40 Tests and 7 ODIs&nbsp;after making his debut for Team India in 1969. Chauhan&nbsp;in Test cricket was best known as&nbsp;Sunil Gavaskar&rsquo;s partner as the pair is considered one of the most successful in Indian cricket with 10 century partnerships.

Swapna Suresh and Sandeep Nair, the two key accused in Kerala's gold smuggling case, were reportedly arrested by the National&nbsp;Investigation Agency&nbsp;from Bengaluru on Saturday. They will be taken to the NIA&nbsp;office in Kochi on Sunday. The arrests pertain to seizure of 30kgs of gold by the Customs from a diplomatic cargo at the&nbsp;Thiruvananthapuram&nbsp;airport&nbsp;last week. Swapna, a&nbsp;former employee of UAE Consulate in&nbsp;Thiruvananthapuram, has claimed that she has been falsely implicated in the case by the acting Consulate General.&nbsp;

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