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Actor Rakul Preet Singh has reached the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) office to record her statement in connection with the agency's probe into the alleged Bollywood-drug nexus.

Deendayal Upadhyay Birth Anniversary: Union Ministers and other leaders are paying homage to Deendayal Upadhyay on his 104th birth anniversary today. Deendayal Upadhyay was a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) thinker and former leader of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the forerunner of Bharatiya Janata Party.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar shared his state's policy initiatives and sustainable development efforts, including climate resilient agriculture and water conservation, aimed at contributing to the goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5C at a climate change roundtable hosted by the UN Secretary-General.

More than 15 lakh Covid tests were performed in the last 24 hours - taking the total number of tests conducted since the pandemic began closer to the seven crore-mark - government data showed Friday morning. In that same period - the last 24 hours - 86,052 new cases and 1,141 deaths were recorded. The total number of coronavirus cases in India has crossed 58 lakh, of which 9.7 lakh are active cases and around 92,000 are deaths linked to the virus. In the last 24 hours over 80,000 people were discharged after receiving treatment. The total number of people recovered since the pandemic began has crossed 47.5 lakh. India remains the second worst-affected country in this pandemic, behind only the United States which crossed 70 lakh on Thursday.

As a farmers' union in Punjab has startedits three-day "Rail Roko" protest onThursday against the three farm sector bills in Amritsar and Firozpur districts, others have given a call for a statewide "bandh" on September 25, and from October 1.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call for an "Aatmanirbhar Bharat" (self-reliant India) is an important initiative, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Thursday.

The Election Commission will announce the schedule for Bihar assembly polls today at 12:30 PM. This is will be the first state election to be held in India since the beginning of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

US President Donald Trump hoped on Thursday that India and China would be able to resolve their current border disputes as he reiterated his offer to help the two Asian giants in this regard.

India's COVID-19 case count crossed the 58-lakh mark with a spike of 86,052 new cases. A total of 1,141 deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday instructed officials to connect medical institutions through virtual ICUs as adopting this technology-based system would enable the treatment of more seriously ill patients by qualified and experienced physicians.

Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), a globally-banned terror group, is now probably capable of only small-scale regional attacks, a top American counter-terrorism official told lawmakers on Thursday.

The Congress on Thursday supported the "Bharat Bandh" call given by farmer organisations for Friday, saying millions of party workers stand in solidarity with the farmers' cause and will participate in their dharnas.

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Thursday asked Dharma Productions' executive producer Kshitiz Ravi to appear before it in the drugs probe linked to Sushant Singh Rajput's death, an official said.

Kerala has won a United Nations award on Thursday for its "outstanding contribution" towards the non-communicable diseases-related sustainable development goals.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has extended vocal support to the contentious farm bills of ally BJP that has created huge turbulence among farmers and drawn opposition criticism. Breaking his self-imposed boycott of electronic media, Mr Kumar told reporters on Thursday that the countrywide farmers' protest called on Friday is "completely unnecessary". Taking a veiled dig at opposition parties that are highlighting the issue ahead of the coming state elections, he accused them of trying to create "misunderstanding" on the issue.