News Highlights: Navjot Singh Sidhu resigns as Congress Punjab chief, says cannot compromise of state's future

Navjot Singh Sidhu resigns as Punjab Congress President

Putting Congress in a political turmoil, Navjot Singh Sidhu on Tuesday resigned as Punjab Congress chief, saying he cannot compromise on the future of his home state.

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If 8 were arrested, the attack did take place. Mentality of TMC workers behind the attack is a misfortune for this nation's democracy. We also demanded from EC that they appoint micro-Observers. We submitted an audio digital CD: Bhupender Yadav

1 Pakistani terrorist killed, another captured in Uri

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Calcutta High Court refuses to stay 30th September Bhabanipur bypolls

Delhi | Posters welcoming Kanhaiya Kumar into Congress put up outside the Congress office ahead of his proposed joining

Delhi: Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya launches 'National Action Plan for Dog Mediated Rabies Elimination from India by 2030'

One terrorist neutralised by Indian Army in the Uri sector, Jammu and Kashmir, while another surrendered before the troops during the operation

(ANI)

By-elections to three Parliamentary Constituencies of UT of Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu, Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh and 30 Assembly constituencies of various States to be held on 30th October: Election Commission

India reports daily new cases less than 20,000 after 201 days

18,795 new cases, 179 deaths in the last 24 hours; Active caseload stands at 2,92,206: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

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Volcanic eruptions helped dinosaurs dominate earth

For decades, scientists argued over whether volcanoes or an asteroid caused dinosaurs’ abrupt extinction 65 million years ago. It wasn’t until 2010 that an international panel of experts formally declared that it was the space rock, and not giant eruptions, that was the primary cause of dino demise.

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While other countries did not predict the "end of the problem" by January 2021, Indian oracles predicted the end of the problem: Virologist Jacob John

Prediction of the future is an Indian pastime. We do not know how to predict future virus-human interactions because the past did not give us clear metrics. Between the first and second waves, the virus behaviour changed drastically and that could not be predicted, virilogist Jacob John tells DH

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China installs new shelters for troops near LAC in eastern Ladakh

China has put in place new modular container-based accommodations for its troops in several high-altitude forward areas on its side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh in response to Indian deployment in the region, people familiar with the developments said on Monday.

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Attempts were made to defame earlier Kumbh Melas: UP CM

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday attempted to draw a comparison between the previous Kumbh Melas held in the state that were "defamed" and the one held in Allahabad two years ago.

"The heritage of Kumbh spanning over thousands of years may have been linked to faith in the country. But what was the point of view of the world? If you see the write-up of the West towards the Kumbh before 2019, it was in the form of chaos ('bhagdarh'), disorder ('avyavasthaa'), dirt ('gandagi') and anarchy ('arajaktaa'). Instead of mutual co-ordination, there were mutual differences. Attempts were made to defame it," the Chief Minister said while addressing a programme here on World Tourism Day.

(PTI)

Rains lash several parts of Telangana; IMD issues red alert to 14 districts

Rains pounded several parts of Telangana on Monday, even as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) warned that heavy rains are expected at isolated places in different districts of the State over the next 48 hours.

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Biden receives Covid booster, urges more Americans to get first shot

President Joe Biden may have gotten ahead of the government’s scientists in announcing prematurely that virtually all Americans would begin getting coronavirus booster shots this fall, but he made a show of getting his own. The president spoke briefly before he received a Pfizer-BioNTech booster Monday afternoon.

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ICMR experts favour phased reopening of schools with multi-layered Covid mitigation steps

Schools need to be reopened in a phased manner, starting with primary sections with proper implementation of multi-layered Covid-19 mitigation measures, according to experts at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).

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