UN chief Antonio Guterres is closely following the situation in New Delhi and stresses that demonstrators should be allowed to protest peacefully, and security forces should show restraint, his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said at the daily press briefing.&nbsp; Communal violence over the Citizenship Amendment Act in northeast Delhi has killed over 20 people, including a police constable, and left over 250 people injured till Wednesday as police struggled to check the rioters who ran amok on streets, burning and looting shops, pelting stones and thrashing people.&nbsp;

UN chief Antonio Guterres is closely following the situation in New Delhi and stresses that demonstrators should be allowed to protest peacefully, and security forces should show restraint, his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said at the daily press briefing. Communal violence over the Citizenship Amendment Act in northeast Delhi has killed over 20 people, including a police constable, and left over 250 people injured till Wednesday as police struggled to check the rioters who ran amok on streets, burning and looting shops, pelting stones and thrashing people.

Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar met Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday. PTI reported NCP chief met Thackeray for 40 minutes at the Chief Minister's house. However, it is unclear what the two leaders discussed. The talks between Pawar&nbsp;and Thackarey sparked huge speculations in the state&rsquo;s political circles, especially as it comes a day after Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut met BJP leader and former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis in a suburban hotel in Mumbai. Raut, however has said it was only for an interview for the Shiv Sena mouthpiece &lsquo;Saamana&rsquo;.

The Indian population is far from achieving herd immunity against the novel coronavirus, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan&nbsp;said on Sunday citing Indian Council of Medical Research's unreleased second sero-survey report. In a video posted online he urged people to continue adhering to the Covid-19 guidelines and re-emphasised the importance of wearing face masks.&nbsp;
He also addressed questions about re-infection in the video and said ICMR&nbsp;is continuing its research on the matter and the govt is aware of it's importance.&nbsp;

According to an analytical study done by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mandi, COVID-19 got induced into Indian states mainly due to international travels. Travellers from Dubai and the UK were the primary sources of COVID-19 importations into India, the study published in the Journal of Travel Medicine stated. The study has also found that infected cases from Tamil Nadu, Delhi and Andhra Pradesh played a smaller role in spreading the disease outside their communities. Whereas infected people in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Kerala, Jammu and Kashmir, and Karnataka played a significant role in the local transmission, and some of them caused interstate transfer too.

Rajasthan minister Arjun Singh Bamaniya, senior officers and other public representatives on Sunday met a delegation of protesters in violence-hit Dungarpur where two people have died. The protestors are demanding recruitment of reserved category candidates on vacant unreserved positions for teachers from 2018. Violence erupted in the region when the candidates of teachers recruitment examination-2018 blocked the Udaipur-Ahmedabad Highway, pelted stones at police, damaged several properties and torched vehicles. Two companies of the Rapid Action Force have been deployed to deal with the situation. BJP MP Rajyavardhan Rathore, said the situation is worsening in four Rajasthan districts including Dungarpur and demanded immediate solution from the Rajasthan government.
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Rashtriya&nbsp;Janata&nbsp;Dal or the RJD&nbsp;has promised to give jobs to 10 lakh&nbsp;people if it is voted to power in Bihar. RJD's&nbsp;chief ministerial candidate Tejashwi&nbsp;Yadav&nbsp;said that the jobs will be on the agenda of the first cabinet meeting held by RJD&nbsp;in case of victory.&nbsp;&nbsp;He said that these will be permanent&nbsp;government jobs.&nbsp;
The promise of employment was one of the ten promises announced by Bihar's&nbsp;former Deputy Chief Minister on Sunday.&nbsp;
He also attacked Nitish&nbsp;Kumar&nbsp;and accused him of doing nothing fill up various govt posts in healthcare, education and police force.&nbsp;
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President Ram Nath Kovind gave his assent to three agriculture&nbsp;bills even as farmers and opposition parties are protesting against these. These bills were passed by Parliament amid much drama during the recently concluded monsoon session. The president's&nbsp;approval comes a day after ruling BJP's&nbsp;oldest ally, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), quit the NDA over the&nbsp;contentious farm bills.

Indian Army on Sunday moved T-90 and T-72 tanks near the line of actual control with China at altitudes of over 14,500 feet. These tanks can operate at temperatures upto minus 40 degree Celsius. The deployment of these tanks and other infantry combat vehicles comes just ahead of the winter season which can be very harsh in eastern Ladakh. India and China say differences should not become disputes but that has not helped ease the situation at the LAC

Adar Poonawalla, CEO of the Serum Institute of India, on Sunday praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Covid-19 vaccines.
Poonawalla added it was clear that his arrangements for India will take care of all needs for the Indian people. This comes after he had asked the government if they had&nbsp;₹80,000 crore to buy and distribute the vaccine to everyone in the country.
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has also lauded Modi's&nbsp;assurance that India will use&nbsp;its vaccine production capacity in helping nations fight Covid-19. He said the pandemic can be defeated only by mobilising resources for common good.

Describing&nbsp;the Akali Dal's decision of snapping ties with the NDA&nbsp;over farm bills as &ldquo;unfortunate&rdquo;, Punjab&rsquo;s senior BJP leaders&nbsp;on Sunday asserted that the party can fight and win the 2022 Punjab assembly polls alone.
BJP's senior Punjab leader Manoranjan Kalia&nbsp;said that the Akalis&nbsp;had taken a U-turn after initially supporting the farms bills.&nbsp;
He added that&nbsp;&nbsp;BJP had always tried to accommodate the SAD but now&nbsp;there was a generational change in the Akali&nbsp;Dal after several veteran leaders left the party.&nbsp;
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Former Bihar DGP Gupteshwar Pandey, who recently took voluntary retirement, joined Janata Dal (United) on Sunday at Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's residence in Patna. Speculation of his political entry was rife after a music video surfaced in which Pandey&nbsp;was portrayed as the man who got Sushant&nbsp;Singh&nbsp;Rajput justice. Pandey&nbsp;also made headlines when he&nbsp;questioned Rhea Ckahraborty's&nbsp;status during&nbsp;the Maharashtra&nbsp;versus Bihar police controversy in the late actor's death case. Interestingly, Pandey&nbsp;after joining the JDU said he did not understand politics.&nbsp;

The new President of BJP's youth wing Tejasvi Surya will visit poll-bound Bihar on Monday. Ahead of his visit, the Karnataka MP while speaking to NDTV launched a veiled attack on RJD's Tejashwi Yadav, a former partner in the Nitish Kumar-led government. Responding to Yadav&rsquo;s attack on the BJP over the state of unemployment, Surya said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has &lsquo;created more job opportunities in Bihar than any other government&rsquo;. He also added that the &lsquo;dynasts and princes of Bihar who talk about unemployment have never worked a day in their life.&rsquo;

Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Sunday took a dig at the BJP after Shiromani Akali Dal quit the NDA alliance citing differences over the three farm bills. Amid intensifying protests by farmers in Punjab over the three legislations which were passed by Parliament, SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday night announced the decision to snap ties with the NDA. Raut said, the 'strong pillars of NDA were Shiv Sena and Akali Dal and without them, there can be no NDA.

BJP national vice president Uma Bharti&nbsp;has tested positive for the&nbsp;coronavirus.&nbsp;Announcing it via Twitter on Sunday, Uma&nbsp;Bharti&nbsp;said she was&nbsp;in quarantine at Vande Mataram Kunj between Haridwar and Rishikesh. She will get re-tested after four days and has asked all contacts to quarantine themselves and get their Covid-19 tests done.

Former Union minister&nbsp;Jaswant Singh&nbsp;passed away on Sunday at the age of 82.&nbsp;He was admitted to hospital on June 25 and was being treated for sepsis associated with multiorgan&nbsp;dysfunction. Singh&nbsp;had a cardiac arrest on Sunday, his Covid-19 report was negative.
Prime Minister&nbsp;Narendra Modi&nbsp;tweeted saying&nbsp;Singh&nbsp;served our nation diligently, first as a soldier and later during his long association with politics, adding that in the Vajpayee&nbsp;govt, he&nbsp;handled crucial portfolios and left a strong mark in the worlds of finance, defence and external affairs.
Defence Minister&nbsp;Rajnath Singh&nbsp;said, deeply pained by the passing away of veteran BJP leader and former Minister, adding that Singh&nbsp;served the nation in several capacities including the charge of Raksha Mantri, he distinguished himself as an effective Minister and a Parliamentarian.

A single-day spike of 88,600 new Covid-19 cases and 1,124 deaths were reported in India, in the last 24 hours, pushing the overall tally to nearly 60 lakh. The case tally stands at 59,92,533 which includes over 9.5 lakh active cases, 49 lakh recoveries and over 94,000 deaths. The ICMR has said 71 million samples were tested up to September 26, of these, 9 lakh were tested on Saturday alone. India has reported higher number of new recoveries than new cases for several consecutive days. 24 States/UTs recorded more recoveries than positive cases.

Amid protests across India by farmer unions against the contentious agriculture bills passed by Parliament recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday praised the 'huge role' played by farmers towards building an &lsquo;aatmanirbhar Bharat&rsquo;. In the 69th edition of his monthly radio broadcast, Mann Ki Baat, PM Modi said, even during the pandemic farmers didn't give up. He added that he now gets letters from farmers who tell him how technologies are changing.

Mumbai Police has issued a stern warning to car-chasing paparazzi after a video of Deepika Padukone's car chase went viral.
Warning the media vehicles against pursuing celebrity vehicles,&nbsp;Deputy Commissioner of Police&nbsp;Sangram Singh Nishandar said that they will not tolerate&nbsp;media vehicles chasing cars and putting people's lives&nbsp;at risk.
Singh&nbsp;added if anyone will be&nbsp;found violating the rules, police will&nbsp;seize their vehicles and take action against the drivers.

BJP chief JP Nadda's organisational rehaul has ruffled some feathers in the party's Bengal unit. Senior leader Rahul Sinha, who was dropped as the national secretary, lashed out at the party top brass saying, this was his reward for dedicated service for 40 years. In a video message, Rahul Sinha claimed that he will articulate his 'stand' and 'next step' in the coming 10 to 12 days. Targeting newly appointed office-bearers Mukul Roy and Anupam Hazra, both turncoats from the Trinamool Congress, Sinha said he has been dropped to pave way for TMC leaders who have joined the BJP. Mukul Roy, once considered the number two in the TMC, had switched over to the BJP in 2017 after differences with Mamata Banerjee.

Former Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut met at a suburban hotel on Saturday, prompting speculation in Maharashtra's political circles. Maharashtra BJP chief spokesperson Keshav Upadhye however said there was no political angle to the meeting. He tweeted saying Raut wanted to interview Fadnavis for the Sena mouthpiece Saamana and this meeting was to discuss how to go about it. Adding there are no political connotations to the meeting, he said Fadnavis has informed Raut that he would give the interview after returning from poll campaigning in Bihar.

The Shiromani Akali Dal on Saturday broke ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party, days after Harsimrat Kaur resigned from the Union cabinet over contentious farm bills.
SAD President Sukhbir&nbsp;Singh&nbsp;Badal&nbsp;said, the party was not taken into confidence before passing the three agriculture bills, which directly affect farmers, labourers and local traders. He added, Akali&nbsp;Dal&nbsp;had been trying to attract Centre's attention to the farmers' issues and the impact of the Bills but their efforts went in vain.
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