Name: Voting begins for Jind assembly bypoll in Haryana
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Description: Amid tight security arrangements, voting began for the by-election in Jind assembly constituency on Monday morning. Despite the early morning chill, voters could be seen queued up at some of the polling stations. The by-election is a test for all the four major parties in the fray - the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, Congress, Indian National Lok Dal and the newly formed Jannayak Janata Party.

Amid tight security arrangements, voting began for the by-election in Jind assembly constituency on Monday morning. Despite the early morning chill, voters could be seen queued up at some of the polling stations. The by-election is a test for all the four major parties in the fray - the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, Congress, Indian National Lok Dal and the newly formed Jannayak Janata Party.

Cable TV operators in Nepal have pulled the plug on all Indian news channels, except Doordarshan. There is, however, no official order in connection with the ban. The move came hours after former Deputy PM and spokesperson of the ruling Nepal Communist Party Narayan Kaji Shrestha said that "baseless propaganda by Indian media against the Nepal government and our PM" should stop. Nepal&rsquo;s envoy Nilambar Acharya had also reportedly raised the issue of Indian media coverage of the Chinese envoy&rsquo;s recent meetings with senior Nepalese political leaders and certain derogatory references in these reports during a conversation with the external affairs ministry.

A day after he was arrested from Ujjain in MP, UP gangster Vikas Dubey was shot dead in an encounter on Friday morning after he reportedly tired to escape police custody, UP police said. The car carrying&nbsp;Dubey to Kanpur&nbsp;from Ujjain overturned. Police&nbsp;said that the gangster, who is the main accused in the killing of 8 cops in Kanpur last week, tried to escape the custody after the accident. According to the police, Dubey&nbsp;snatched a cop's gun and fired. He was then&nbsp;shot by the police.

ICSE Class X and ICS Class XII exam results will be announced today at 3 pm. Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination confirmed result date in a notice published on its website. The results will be released on the 'CAREERS' portal of the Council, its main website, and through SMS. The council has used a percentage-base alternative assessment scheme for exams cancelled due to coronavirus outbreak. It had internal assessment marks, and marks scored in best three subjects as components.

Around 15% of Delhi&rsquo;s population appears to have been infected with coronavirus, with the rate much higher in some pockets, according to initial results of antibody testing of 22,823 people across the Capital, the Hindustan Times has reported. The overall trend of a Delhi-specific sero surveillance, conducted between June 27 and July 5, suggests that certain pockets have developed widespread transmission but are still amenable to containment. The interim findings of the report are higher than the national average of positivity rate for tests &mdash; around 10%.

India will seek to patrol the portion of the Fingers Region along the Pangong Lake in Ladakh which it was prevented from doing after a large-scale Chinese incursion in the area once tensions between the two countries subside, NDTV reported citing government sources. India has traditionally claimed rights to patrol all eight spurs, which are referred to as fingers, in the disputed region and believes that the LAC here rests at Finger 8. China, for its part, believes that the LAC lies at Finger 4 beyond which the territory belongs to them. With the process of disengagement proceeding successfully, there is hope that China will vacate the region between Finger 4 and Finger 8.

Uttar Pradesh on Thursday announced a complete shutdown for 2 days starting from Friday 10 pm till Monday 5 am as Covid-19 cases in the state continue to rise.&nbsp;All offices, markets, urban and rural&nbsp;haats, grain markets, and commercial establishments will remain coded. During the period the state will run a&nbsp;sanitisation&nbsp;and drinking water supply consolidation drive across Uttar Pradesh.&nbsp;Railways will continue to operate the way it has been and the UP roadways would make arrangements to operate buses to ferry the passengers who arrive at the stations. However, barring these buses would not operate anywhere in the state.&nbsp;

For the second time in a week, India and China will on Friday discuss ways to build on the disengagement process.&nbsp;National Security Advisor&nbsp;Ajit&nbsp;Doval&nbsp;and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will hold&nbsp;Friday&rsquo;s meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on Indo-China Border Affairs&nbsp;or WMCC. This will be&nbsp;the first formal interaction at a diplomatic level after the Doval-Wang icebreaker video call on Sunday on the&nbsp;Ladakh stand-off.&nbsp;The WMCC,&nbsp;was&nbsp;set up in 2012 to address tensions along the Line of Actual Control.&nbsp;The Hindustan Times reported that&nbsp;Friday&rsquo;s meeting was being held under different circumstances, largely on account of the seven-hour-long video call between&nbsp;Doval&nbsp;and Wang.&nbsp;&nbsp;

After Kerala chief&nbsp;minister&nbsp;Pinarayi&nbsp;Vijayan wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting &lsquo;coordinated investigation&rsquo; by central agencies into the gold smuggling racket, the Centre on Thursday asked the National Investigation Agency to probe the case. The MHA said the case was handed to NIA &lsquo;as the&nbsp;organised&nbsp;smuggling operation may have serious implications for national security&rsquo;.&nbsp;Vijayan in his letter had said that the case needs to be investigated because it has serious implications of undermining the country&rsquo;s economy.&nbsp;The main accused in the case, Swapna Suresh who moved the High Court for anticipatory bail on Thursday has claimed in an audio tape sent to a news channel that she had called the Customs to clear the consignment after being asked by the UAE consular office.&nbsp;

The World Health&nbsp;Organisation&nbsp;chief scientist&nbsp;Dr Soumya Swaminathan has said that developing a vaccine is a time-taking process which involves several complex steps, because of which it is not possible to make a vaccine with a deadline of six weeks. Speaking to India Today TV&nbsp;she was asked what she thinks about the Indian Council of Medical Research's recent move to set&nbsp;August 15 as the deadline for developing a vaccine&nbsp;to fight Covid-19.&nbsp;"No, it is not possible to do it,&rdquo;&nbsp;Dr Swaminathan replied.&nbsp;&nbsp;She said the clinical&nbsp;trail&nbsp;phase may itself take 6 to 9 to even 12 months, depending on how smoothly things are carried out.&nbsp;

While Congress leader&nbsp;Sushmita Dev has tested positive for coronavirus, the Assam government refuted media reports that jailed farmer leader Akhil&nbsp;Gogoi&nbsp;has contracted the deadly infection.&nbsp;Sushmita Dev, who is the&nbsp;All India&nbsp;Mahila&nbsp;Congress chief and the party's national spokesperson was on Wednesday admitted to the&nbsp;Silchar&nbsp;Medical College and Hospital after she tested&nbsp;Covid-19&nbsp;positive.&nbsp;Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi&nbsp;Vadra&nbsp;inquired about her health.&nbsp;Meanwhile&nbsp;Akhil&nbsp;Gogoi&rsquo;s&nbsp;legal counsel Santanu&nbsp;Barthakur&nbsp;said he&nbsp;received the news that&nbsp;the&nbsp;incarcerated farmer leader&nbsp;has tested positive for Covid-19.&nbsp;But the Inspector General of Prisons&nbsp;Dasarath&nbsp;Das said he had not received any such report from the health department.&nbsp;

With a recovery rate of over 72 per cent and doubling rate of nearly 30 days, the Covid-19 situation in the national capital has shown remarkable improvement in recent days because of joint efforts, the Union Home Ministry said on Thursday.&nbsp;The home ministry said joint efforts have improved the situation in Delhi&nbsp;and rapid antigen technology is being used at a large scale which has increased testing capability.&nbsp;The ministry&nbsp;said the Sardar Patel Covid&nbsp;care&nbsp;centre at&nbsp;Chattarpur&nbsp;has emerged as a game changer as provision of a good facility for Delhi residents was ensured within 12 days, setting an example for the entire country.&nbsp;

In a response to a plea filed by&nbsp;an&nbsp;NGO, the Centre on Thursday defended the formation of PM-CARES fund, and told the Supreme Court that the existence of the statutory National Disaster Relief Fund &lsquo;would not prohibit the creation of a different fund&rsquo;.&nbsp;In an affidavit filed before the apex court, the central government said&nbsp;there are several funds which are either established earlier or now for carrying out various relief works.&nbsp;The Centre said&nbsp;mere existence of a statutory fund would not prohibit in creation of a different fund like PM Cares Fund which provides for voluntary donations.&nbsp;The PIL by the&nbsp;NGO&nbsp;sought&nbsp;transfer of funds from PM-CARES to NDRF.&nbsp;It claimed that the Centre has been &lsquo;refraining from divulging information' about the money 'contributed to the PM CARES Fund till date&rsquo;.&nbsp;

A former employee of the UAE&nbsp;consulate in&nbsp;Thiruvananthapuram&nbsp;has claimed she has been falsely implicated in a gold-smuggling racket, that was busted at the city's&nbsp;airport last week and has now filed for anticipatory bail in the&nbsp;Kerala&nbsp;High Court. The Customs Dept&nbsp;suspects that Swapna&nbsp;Suresh, who is currently on the run,&nbsp;played a key role in the smuggling of 30kg of gold, that was seized from a diplomatic cargo addressed to the UAE Consulate-General's Office in Thiruvananthapuram. The Indian Express has reported that in her petition,&nbsp;Swapna&nbsp;claimed that she resigned from the UAE consulate in 2019 but continued to work to closely with the consulate on a 'work on request' basis. She said that she had contacted customs about delay in the cargo on the request of the Consulate General.&nbsp;

Speaking to reporters at the daily media briefing , the govt said till July 8, a total of 6,79,831 Covid-19 tests have been conducted in Delhi. This means 35,780 tests were conducted per 10 lakh people and over 20,000 tests are being conducted daily. Referring to ICMR's letter to pharma company Bharat Biotech who are working on the Covid-19 vaccine with an August 15 deadline, the Health Ministry said the letter's intent was only to expedite duly approved clinical trials without compromising on safety and security concerns. When asked to confirm if the virus was airborne, the govt said the situation was dynamic and evolving and the govt is keeping abreast with the information coming from WHO headquarters in this regard.

As opposition attacked BJP governments in&nbsp;Madhya&nbsp;Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh over the scanty details of the arrest of&nbsp;gangster Vikas Dubey who was caught from a temple in Ujjain, a Congress leader has posted a video claiming that his arrest was stage managed.&nbsp;
The harshest attack on the MP government&nbsp;came from Srinivas BV, of the Indian Youth Congress, who brought to light a video circulating on social media that showed Vikas Dubey walking out of the temple barefoot, a private security guard walking along with him.&nbsp;
In a tweet, the youth Congress leader asked, from what angle does it appear that this terrorist Vikas Dubey has been arrested by the police? This was scripted. This video is the proof.&nbsp;

The National Green Tribunal has directed the Delhi government to comply with the Supreme Court order to levy sewerage charges on all households in the national capital for discharge of untreated effluents in Yamuna.&nbsp;The green panel noted that 2.3 lakh people in unauthorised colonies in Delhi have not taken sewage connection which was resulting in emission of pollutants in the river.&nbsp;The NGT said as per &ldquo;Polluter pays Principle, every individual&nbsp;household causing pollution by release of sewage into&nbsp;open environment or in the sewer network is&nbsp;liable for payment for its treatment. NGT&nbsp;chairperson Justice AK Goel, said the Delhi govt may forthwith comply with the order of&nbsp;the Supreme Court dated October 24, 2019.

The Delhi High Court on Thursday granted more time to the Delhi University to draw up a plan for conducting examinations for final year students studying in the varsity. A division bench of the High Court granted the time after advocate appearing for the varsity informed the court that a new plan has to be formulated in accordance with the latest UGC guidelines. The court has asked the varsity to file an affidavit&nbsp;by&nbsp;Monday and the matter has been posted for further hearing on July 14.&nbsp;On Wednesday, the High Court was informed by the Delhi University that it has postponed the online Open Book Examination till August 15. The exams were slated to commence from July 10.&nbsp;

After controversy over the removal of certain topics by CBSE in an exercise to reduce the syllabus for the current academic year, HRD&nbsp;Minister Ramesh&nbsp;Pokhriyal&nbsp;on Thursday&nbsp;said that&nbsp;there has been an "uninformed commentary" on the issue to portray a false narrative. The minister tweeted that while it is easy to misconstrue exclusion of 3-4 topics like nationalism, local government, federalism, etc and build a concocted narrative, a wider perusal of different subjects will show that this exclusion is happening across subjects. He also reiterated that it is a one-time measure taken due to the Covid-19 pandemic and to reduce the burden of students. CBSE&nbsp;has decided to reduce the syllabus for classes 9-12 by up to&nbsp;30% for 2020-21.&nbsp;

China on Thursday said Chinese and Indian troops have taken 'effective measures' to disengage at Galwan Valley and other areas along the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh. Days after the two sides agreed on an expeditious withdrawal of soldiers from all the standoff points, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said&nbsp;the situation is 'stable and improving'. The remarks by the Chinese came a day after people in New Delhi familiar with the developments said that the Chinese military removed all temporary structures and completed withdrawal of its troops from the face-off site in Hot Springs in eastern Ladakh.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered the inaugural address at the India Global Week 2020, a virtual conference organised in the UK, which also featured a "never-seen-before" performance on the Aatma Nirbhar Bharat campaign, the Prime Mister's Office said. Themed 'Be The Revival: India and a Better New World', the event has 5,000 global participants from 30 nations and it will be addressed by 250 global speakers in 75 sessions. PM said that there is faith that the story of global revival and India will play a leading role.

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