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Sachin Pilot, who ended his month-long revolt after a meeting with Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday, today said he bore no ill-will against Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, who had called him "nikamma" and accused him of conspiring with the BJP to pull down his government.

The Shiv Sena today said that the "silence" of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's devotees in the Maharashtra BJP over the removal of his statue in Karnataka is worrying, and asked what is the use of such "fake devotion".

A day after a truce between Sachin Pilot and the Gandhis signaled the end of the Rajasthan Congress rebellion, the BJP cancelled a big meeting it had called at a time the Ashok Gehlot government seemed wobbly and a test of strength in the assembly on Friday was a real possibility.

Krishna Janmashtami 2020: Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Janmashtami celebrations are low-key this year. The rituals at temples in Mathura and Vrindavan, the land of Bhagwan Krishna, is being performed but devotees are not being allowed in large numbers due to the pandemic. The famous Banke Behari Mandir has been decorated with flowers and lights as usual but there are no large gathering of devotees for puja this year.

A sub-inspector in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi district has been suspended and a departmental inquiry initiated against him after he was caught throwing maize off a hawker's cart and then upturning it in a video clip.

COVID-19 patients under home isolation will stand discharged after 10 days of symptom onset or date of sampling, and no fever for three days, as per the revised guidelines for home care issued by the government of Karnataka.

4G internet services will be allowed on a trial basis in one district each in Jammu and one in the Kashmir valley after August 15, the centre told the Supreme Court today, adding that a special committee has made this decision.

An expert committee under the chairmanship of NITI Aayog member Dr VK Paul will meet tomorrow to consider the logistics and ethical aspects of procuring and administering the COVID-19 vaccine, the Union Health Ministry said today.

Sachin Pilot, who dropped his rebellion after a meeting on Monday with Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, returns to Rajasthan today, a month after he broke ranks with Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot. He is expected to arrive in state capital Jaipur in the afternoon.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi holding a virtual meeting with Chief Ministers of 10 states to review the coronavirus situation. This is the seventh such interaction with Chief Ministers on the coronavirus crisis.

Khudiram Bose death anniversary: Khudiram Bose was the youngest revolutionary freedom fighter who was executed on August 11, 1908 for his role in the Muzaffarpur conspiracy case. Khudiram Bose, along with another freedom fighter Prafulla Chaki, tried to assassinate a British judge, Douglas Kingsford. The bombs did not hit the judge's carriage but hit a different one, leading to the death of two others.

A BJP leader was shot dead in Uttar Pradesh while he was out on a morning walk in fields near his home, the police said on Tuesday.

A fresh surge of 53,601 new coronavirus patients in the last 24 hours has taken India's Covid tally to 22,68,675 cases, the Union Health Ministry said this morning. This is the seventh consecutive day that India, which has the third highest caseload in the world, has reported more cases in a day than the United States and Brazil, which have logged more patients than the country since the beginning of the pandemic. About 15.8 lakh Covid patients have recovered in India, the government data shows, and the recovery rate stood at 69.79 per cent this morning.

A 20-year-old woman from western Uttar Pradesh, who overcame many odds to secure 98 per cent marks in her class 12 board exams in 2018 and then went on to receive a full time scholarship at a prestigious university in the United States, was killed on Monday in a road accident in the state's Bulandshahr district.

The Expert Committee on vaccine administration under the chairmanship of NITI Aayog member Dr VK Paul will meet on Wednesday to consider the logistics and ethical aspects of procurement and administration of COVID-19 vaccine, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.