In a move welcomed by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, the BJP has decided to shift its protests against the Supreme Court's Sabarimala verdict to the secretariat in Thiruvananthapuram. BJP workers from across the state are expected to join the 2-week protest. The decision, according to the BJP state Chief, Sreedharan Pillai, comes after women in the previously barred age-group stopped trying to enter the shrine.  

Weighing in on the Rajasthan&nbsp;political crisis, former Congress leader Jyotiraditya&nbsp;Scindia, who joined BJP in March this year, said in a tweet, "In present circumstances, there is no place for ability in the Congress party. This can be seen in every state."&nbsp;Scindia's&nbsp;comments came after&nbsp;the Congress sacked Sachin Pilot as the deputy chief minister of Rajasthan for his revolt, as he skipped the second meeting of MLAs in two days.&nbsp;Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said Sachin Pilot was "ensnared" by the BJP to bring down the Congress government in Rajasthan.&nbsp;

The Centre has given in-principle approval to construct a strategic tunnel under the Brahmaputra river, Hindi newspaper Hindustan has reported. The four-lane tunnel will link Gohpur and Numaligarh towns in Assam. This is the first time that India will be constructing an under-river tunnel, the report said and it will be close to the Chinese border. It will be longer than the under water tunnel being built by China below the Taihu Lake in Jiangsu province, it further added. The proposed tunnel in India will provide year-long connectivity between Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. It will also help in transporting military supplies and ammunition.

PTI, New Delhi: The national capital&nbsp;recorded over 1,200 fresh Covid-19 cases on Monday, taking the city's tally to over 1.13 lakh. Forty deaths in the last 24 hours took the number of fatalities to 3,411, authorities said.
This is the third consecutive day when the national capital has recorded fresh cases in the range of 1,000-2,000.
The health department bulletin said that the total number of cases in the Capital have now reached 1,13,740.
The number of active cases on Monday stood at 19,017, down from 19,155 the previous day.
However, the total number of Covid-19 tests conducted so far in the national capital was revised to 6,92,845, a reduction of over 97,000, according to the bulletin.
The bulletin issued on Sunday stated that a total of 7,89,853 tests had been conducted in the capital.

PTI, New Delhi: A 14-year-old girl was found dead at a boarding school in UP's Noida. Her family has alleged that she was raped, killed and the body cremated without their consent by the institute management, police said on Monday.
 The incident allegedly took place on July 3 at the school in Sector 115 and came to light on Sunday after an uproar on social media, demanding justice for the girl's family, police said.
No case has been registered as there has been no formal complaint yet at the local Sector 49 police station, even as senior officials assured investigation into the incident if the family approached them with any evidence supporting their claim.
However, the family, based in Mahendragarh district of Haryana, has written to their Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, seeking legal action against senior officials of the Noida school.
The Class 10 student's mother has urged people to support them to get "justice", citing weak financial condition of the family.

Mumbai |&nbsp;PTI:&nbsp;Maharashtra recorded 6,497 new cases of Covid-19, taking its tally to 2,60,924 on Monday, while 193 more patients succumbed to the infection, 47of them in Mumbai, the state health department said.&nbsp;
With 193 fresh deaths, thetoll rose to 10,482, said a statement from the health department.&nbsp;Also, 4,182 people were discharged from hospitals in the state, pushing up the number of recoveries to 1,44,507, the statement added.
There are 1,05,935 active cases in the state, where so far 13,42,792people have been tested for coronavirus, it said.&nbsp;Out of the total 193 deaths, 47were reported from Mumbai, which also accounted for 1,158 of the total cases recorded in the last 24 hours.
With this, the case tally in Mumbai rose to 94,146, while the death toll increased to 5,335.&nbsp;The statement said recovery rate in the state was 55, that is 38 per cent, while the case fatality rate was 4.02 per cent.
Currently, 6,87,353 people are in home quarantine and 41,660 in institutional quarantine.&nbsp;Out of the total 6,497 new cases in the state, Pune city accounted for 564 and Aurangabad city 110.
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), including Mumbai city, accounted for the highest 3,807 cases, taking the tally to 1,76,867, while the death toll rose to 7,398.&nbsp;Out of the total 193 fatalities, 117 occurred in the MMR which includes areas of districts adjoining Mumbai.
In the MMR, Thane city and Kalyan-Dombivali, the two satellite cities which are among the worst-hit areas, saw their count rising to 15,110 and 15,105 cases, respectively.&nbsp;Kalyan-Dombivali registered 494 new cases, while Nashik city recorded 148 fresh infections.
Pimpri-Chinchwad in Pune district logged 367 new cases.&nbsp;Jalgaon district saw 179 new cases, Aurangabad district 105 and Jalna district recorded 100 fresh infections, the statement said.

Stepping up its fight against coronavirus, the Punjab government has put a complete bar on all public gatherings, while restricting social gatherings to five and marriages/other social functions to 30 instead of the current 50. These are part of the revised guidelines issued in line with the announcement made on Sunday by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh. Mandatory FIRs shall be filed against those found violating the curb on public gatherings, which now stand strictly disallowed.

After a meeting with MLAs that lasted for several hours, the Rajasthan Congress Legislative&nbsp;Party passed a resolution supporting the Ashok Gehlot-led government in the state. In a major show of strength, 102 MLAs turned up at the chief minister&rsquo;s residence ahead of the meeting. The resolution passed at the CLP meet said, this ripping off of democracy by BJP is insult to eight crore people of Rajasthan, they'll not accept it. The resolution added, that the Congress has full confidence in Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, and unanimously supports the government led by Ashok Gehlot. Rajasthan Congress MLAs&nbsp;along with Gehlot&nbsp;are now at a hotel. Minister Mamta Bhupesh told reporters 'all is well'&nbsp;before boarding one of the buses.

Amid political crisis in the Rajasthan govt after Sachin Pilot's revolt against Ashok Gehlot, two of CM's aides were raided by tax department on Monday morning. Rajiv Arora, vice president of the party's Rajasthan unit, and another leader Dharmendra Rathore were raided by the tax officials. Reports said that 5 premises linked to the two leaders were raided in Jaipur and Kota over allegations of "tax evasion".

The Supreme Court on Monday sided with the Travancore Royal family for the administration and control of the Padmanabha Swamy temple in Kerala. Settling the nine-year-long dispute, the top court overtuned the 2011 judgment of the Kerala high court which had ruled that the state government should take over the control of the temple from a trust headed by the royal family. &ldquo;Great God&rsquo;s will prevailed," said Princess Gowri Lakshmibai of the erstwhile Travancore royal family soon after the judgemnt.

In a shocking incident, a BJP MLA from West Bengal was found hanging in a market near his home on Monday morning. Police said that&nbsp;Debendra Nath Ray, who was MLA from Hemtabad reserved seat in North Dinajpur district, had died due to suicide and a note was found on him. The BJP had earlier&nbsp;claimed that the MLA&nbsp;was killed and hanged later. The party blamed the ruling Trinamool. BJP&nbsp;president JP Nadda&nbsp;tweeted that the killing was proof of gunda raj&nbsp;in Mamata's Bengal.&nbsp;Ray had contested on a CPM ticket but had switched over to the BJP last year after the Lok Sabha elections.

A woman police constable was forced to resign after she was bullied by an MLA's son and his friends whom she questioned for breaking the night curfew rules and not wearing masks. An audio clip of constable Sunita Yadav's heated exchange went viral on social media in which Gujarat Health Minister Kumar Kanani's son Prakash can be heard arguing with the cop and bragging about his power. Following which, Sunita Yadav called her superior, who tried to sweep the matter under the rug and asked her to leave the spot. This apparently frustrated the woman constable and she resigned.

The Congress has issued a whip for all its Rajasthan MLAs to attend the meeting called by CM Ashok Gehlot today. The party has said that disciplinary action will be taken against MLAs who skip the meet. The party also claimed that 109 MLAs have signed a letter expressing their trust and support to the govt led by Ashok Gehlot amid a rebellion by Dy CM Sachin Pilot. Rajasthan Congress in-charge Avinash Pande claimed that more MLAs have pledged support on phone and will attend the meet.

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.

Six NSCN(IM) militants were killed in an encounter with security forces in Khonsa area of Arunachal Pradesh early on Saturday morning. One soldier of Assam Rifles was also injured in the operation and his condition was stated to be stable. News agency ANI reported that the encounter took place at around 4:30 am and that six weapons along with "war-like stores" were recovered from the area. The NSCN(IM) is an insurgent outfit fighting for a separate homeland for Naga people for last several decades.

As the number of coronavirus cases continue to rise, Kolkata Police has asked the Cricket Association of Bengal for a makeshift quarantine centre at the iconic Eden Garden stadium. The police has written to CAB president Abhishek Dalmiya requesting him to allot five blocks of Eden Gardens for setting up a quarantine centre for state police Personnel with immediate effect.

The WHO has praised the efforts taken to contain the coronavirus in Mumbai's Dharavi. "There are many examples around the world to show that even an intense outbreak can be controlled," WHO chief said, while listing Dharavi as one of the examples. "A strong focus on community engagement and the basics of testing, tracing, isolating and treating are key to breaking the chain of transmission," he added. Dharavi, Asia's largest slum has seen a turnaround from being a hotspot to a containment model. Over 2300 cases have been reported so far from the slum that is home to over 7lakh people.

West Bengal is fast running out of private hospital beds as coronavirus numbers peaked in the state. Almost half of the private hospitals in the state appeared to be running out of beds, reports said. The health department reported almost 1200 new Covid-19 cases on Friday evening, 374 of them in Kolkata. 26 people died in the last 24 hours in the state, raising the death count to 880. The state govt has imposed a fresh round of lockdowns in parts to check the rising numbers.

The encounter of gangster Vikas Dubey, wanted for the killing of 8 policemen in Kanpur, has opened a can of worms, with many questioning the circumstances that led to his death. Dubey was gunned down after he reportedly tried to flee when a car in the Special Task Force (STF) convoy taking him from Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain to Uttar Pradesh's Shivli overturned in Kanpur. In a press note issued on Friday evening, the UP Special Task Force has now said, a herd of cattle had come in front of the vehicle due to which the driver took a sudden turn, leading to an accident. The police tried to go close to him to nab him alive but he continued to fire. The police retaliated in self-defence.

Vikas Dubey&rsquo;s alleged encounter on the morning of 10 July, ending a week-long search operation that began with the deadly shoot-out at his residence on 3 July, raises several questions. #1. Why was the media, who were following the police convoy that was bringing Vikas Dubey back, stopped by the police? #2. Questions are being raised about the car in which Vikas Dubey was travelling. A video of three cars crossing a toll booth around 4:00 am shows that Dubey was in a different car, not the one that is seen tipped after the accident on the highway. #3. Why was Dubey not restrained effectively while being brought to UP by the UP Special Task Force? Why did the police not handcuff Vikas Dubey knowing fully well how dangerous a criminal he was. #4. What is also unclear is how Dubey, despite a limp in his leg, was allegedly able to snatch a gun from an injured cop (after the car tipped in an alleged accident) and allegedly make an attempt to flee. Why did the policemen not secure their service weapons? #5. Finally, the eerie similarities between Dubey's encounter and that of his aide Prabhat Mishra's encounter a day ago. the UP police version of the two encounters is pretty much the same. The accused snatched a pistol from a policeman, fired at cops and tried to escape, when he was shot. Why would the UP Police not be more careful in ensuring a similar incident doesn&rsquo;t play out again?

Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa has gone in self-quarantine after his driver and a cook at his residence tested positive for Covid-19. His office informed that the CM is healthy and has no symptoms, but has decided to isolated himself as a precaution. Last month, yediyurappa's office was sealed after four government employees, including 2 policemen posted there, tested positive for coronavirus.

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Twitter on Friday 'lit up' with memes following Prime Minister Modi's address to the nation. In the address PM Modi called upon Indians to switch off their lights and step into the balcony with candles and torches in a show of solidarity during the lockdown. Making a comeback on the internet&nbsp;was a fake 'Nasa&nbsp;picture of Diwali', and many predictions that this is what the nation will look like on April 5th!&nbsp;

Twitter on Friday 'lit up' with memes following Prime Minister Modi's address to the nation. In the address PM Modi called upon Indians to switch off their lights and step into the balcony with candles and torches in a show of solidarity during the lockdown. Making a comeback on the internet was a fake 'Nasa picture of Diwali', and many predictions that this is what the nation will look like on April 5th!

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