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For the first time since April this year, India recorded less than 1% deaths from the Covid-19 pandemic during the period of a month. The case fatality rate (CFR or death rate) dropped to 0.97% in September from a high of 3.07% in June. http://dlvr.it/S8hxNW

After demanding an immediate meeting of the Congress working committee (CWC) to discuss the present turmoil in the party, senior G23 leader Ghulam Nabi Azad is learnt to be pushing for a “compact platform” for discussion instead of a “sprawling gathering” that the apex decision-making body usually becomes. http://dlvr.it/S8hxNR

When PM Modi attended a virtual ceremony on Thursday to lay the foundation stone of four medical colleges in Rajasthan, CM Ashok Gehlot put forward a list of development works he wanted for the state. “This shows he trusts me, despite our different political ideologies,” said Modi, calling Gehlot a “good friend”. http://dlvr.it/S8hxNH

The Congress dissident bloc G 23 Thursday condemned the protest outside the residence of senior colleague Kapil Sibal, calling it orchestrated and demanding party chief Sonia Gandhi take action against those responsible. While in a spate of tweets from the letter writers did not mention who was behind the protests that they called orchestrated, the allegation appeared to be pointing at the AICC managers. http://dlvr.it/S8hxMN

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India and the US have concretised a plan to expand their partnership in the space sector by deciding to work on an agreement on space situational awareness (SSA) during the first in-person bilateral meeting between PM Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden recently on the sidelines of the Quad summit. http://dlvr.it/S8d7y5

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Amid the frantic firefighting in Punjab, Congress found itself dragged into the Chhattisgarh power struggle on Wednesday when around 15 party MLAs — loyalists of CM Bhupesh Baghel — landed in Delhi in the evening, apparently to lobby against any change of guard in the state. http://dlvr.it/S8d7wL

A day after Navjot Singh Sidhu tendered his resignation from the post of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) chief, state chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Wednesday said he has urged the "Congress family's head" Sidhu, to resolve issues. http://dlvr.it/S8ZtmX

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Former JNU students’ union president Kanhaiya Kumar left CPI to join Congress on Monday, while independent Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani said he will fight the next Gujarat assembly polls on the Congress symbol. In a press conference, organisation general secretary KC Venugopal said the arrival of the two youth leaders in Congress would enthuse the youth and party cadres and strengthen its fight against BJP. http://dlvr.it/S8YLL8

Navjot Singh Sidhu on Tuesday resigned as the chief of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee. In a letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Sidhu, however, said he will continue to serve the party. He had taken over as the state party chief in July this year. http://dlvr.it/S8W4TY

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India recorded its lowest number of daily Covid cases in over 200 days with the tally on Monday falling below 20,000 for the first time since March this year as Kerala logged 11,699 fresh infections, the fewest in nearly five weeks. http://dlvr.it/S8TVcC

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"The situation (along the LoC) is pretty good. We are fully geared up with our deployment and control. We don't have to worry, the people of Kashmir don't have to worry about what is happening on the LoC," general officer commanding of the Army's 15 Corps Lieutenant General DP Pandey told reporters at Boniyar in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district. http://dlvr.it/S8RBtP

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his first-ever in-person meeting with President Joe Biden raised a number of issues involving the Indian community in America, including access for Indian professionals in the US and speaking about the H-1B visas, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla has said. http://dlvr.it/S8Hls2

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Pakistan, where terrorists enjoy free pass, is an "arsonist" disguising itself as a "fire-fighter", and the entire world has suffered because of its policies as the country nurtures terrorists in its backyard, India has said in a blistering retort after Prime Minister Imran Khan raked up the issue of Kashmir in his address to the UN General Assembly. http://dlvr.it/S8Hlpg

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The agriculture ministry on Tuesday estimated record output of kharif foodgrain, including paddy, and pegged its target for the entire 2021-22 crop year closer to the all-time high production figures of 2020-21. Overall, for both kharif and rabi put together, it set the target of 307 MT of foodgrain for the current crop year which is merely a million tonne less than the record output in the previous year. http://dlvr.it/S82Gtl

Covaxin output is all set to be ramped up to 5.5 crore doses in October from to 3.5 crore doses in September, Bharat Biotech’s chairman & managing director Dr Krishna Ella said on Tuesday. Pointing out that production at the Biovet facility in Bengaluru is catching up very fast, Ella said that output from Bengaluru will increase from October as the company had got the licence only one week back for one facility. http://dlvr.it/S804Hc

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"During the exercise, an Infantry Battalion each from the Indian Army and the Nepali army will be training together to develop inter-operability and share their experience of counter-terrorism operations and disaster relief operations," the Indian Army said. http://dlvr.it/S7wPmR

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