About 453 Covid positive patients were discharged following treatment today, thus taking the cumulative recoveries to 35,31,216 so far.

A plea by five Hindu women seeking the right to pray daily to idols installed inside the Gyanvapi Masjid complex in Varanasi is not barred under existing laws and should be decided on merits, a district court held on Monday, setting the stage for a long and fractious legal fight in the communally sensitive case.

Out of pocket expenditure on health, which pushes lakhs of people below poverty line each year, declined by 16 percentage points, from 64.2% to 48.2% between 2013-14 and 2018-19.

Actor-politician Phogat was declared dead at the St Anthony Hospital in North Goa on August 23 . The initial cause of death was a suspected heart attack but her family alleged foul play.

The prime minister, inaugurating the International Dairy Federation’s World Dairy Summit in Greater Noida, said fast digital payments directly to farmers’ account, a cooperative model and a business run mostly by women represent a model that can be an example for many countries.

A Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice of India Uday Umesh Lalit and Justice S Ravindra Bhat directed that the matter will be categorised into cases that relate to various provisions of CAA and others concerning legal provisions pertaining to the National Register for Citizens (NRC) in Assam and Tripura.

The TMC disassociated itself from Menaka Gambhir’s interrogation, saying this has no connection with the party. However, TMC state general secretary Kunal Ghosh took potshots at ED for the faux pas.

A bench of justices Ajay Rastogi and BV Nagarathna said, “No purpose is left in this case to keep him in custody when charges have already been framed.” In March, a charge sheet was filed, and the trial court framed charges against Jitendra Narayan Tyagi and others in May in the hate speech case.

A bench comprising Chief Justice of India Uday Umesh Lalit and Justice S Ravindra Bhat pointed out that liquor policy is a subject falling in the concurrent list, authorising both the Centre and states to come up with their own liquor policies.