PM Narendra Modi on Friday launched the second phase of Swachhta and urban rejuvenation missions with a call to make cities “completely free of garbage” while giving full credit to sanitation workers and rag-pickers terming them as the “mahanayaks” (great actors) for the success of the Swachh Bharat Mission.
A day after Amarinder Singh announced that he would quit Congress, the former CM came under a no-holds-barred attack on Friday from AICC’s Punjab minder Harish Rawat who alleged that Captain had circulated the theory about “humiliation” by the Congress leadership to gain sympathy.
A farmer group’s plea for permission to hold protest against the three new agricultural laws at Jantar Mantar near Parliament triggered a volley of questions Friday from the Supreme Court. It asked the petitioner about the justification of continuing protests by blocking highways that have strangulated the capital city when the oufit had already challenged the laws in the court.
In an important judgment, the Supreme Court has ruled that courts cannot force DNA test on one of the siblings, who are engaged in a civil suit, for crystallising inheritance rights as it has the possibility of stigmatising a person as a “bastard” and violating his right to privacy, which is part of right to life.
A day after recording more than 27,000 fresh cases of Covid-19, India’s daily tally dipped to under 24,000 on Friday as Kerala and several other states reported a fall. India logged 23,910 fresh cases on Thursday. While infections continue to decline overall in the country, there are significant day-to-day variations mainly following the pattern in Kerala, which has been accounting for a bulk of fresh cases.
Much of Kerala could be a fit case to be placed under lockdown with the state’s fortnightly positivity rate, or total confirmed cases per 100 tests over a 14-day period, at a high 16% which hasn’t changed much from the situation a fortnight ago.Top opposition figures, including Congress's Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, NCP patriarch Sharad Pawar and Le...
