Newspaper Headlines: Congress's Sachin Pilot Back In Jaipur After A Month & Other Top Stories
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Hindustan Times: PM Modi cited the Covid-19 response in the National Capital Region, including Delhi, to urge the chief ministers of the 10 hardest-hit states to focus on three particular areas that he said would help track, contain and mitigate the outbreak - strategies that he said are crucial to defeat the virus across the country. A day after the Congress high command brokered a peace deal, Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot struck a reconciliatory note and reached out to dissident legislators. Sachin Pilot, whose rebellion posed a threat to the state government's stability, returned to Jaipur after a month and stressed that there should be no place for vendetta politics.
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The Telegraph: Sachin Pilot on Monday met Rahul Gandhi in a dramatic turnaround that could bring down the curtain on the vicious internal war in the Congress that had jeopardised the party's government in Rajasthan. Many private hospitals in Calcutta on Sunday said they would seek a Rs 50,000 deposit even from patients with cashless insurance policies, highlighting that the state regulatory commission's day-old advisory allowing deposits stipulated no exceptions.
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The Asian Age: Holding that daughters cannot be deprived of their right of equality, the Supreme Court Tuesday ruled that they will have equal coparcenary rights in joint Hindu family property even if the father died before the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act 2005. A day after truce was declared between Rajasthan's former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot and the Congress, Mr Pilot said on Tuesday that he has never hankered after any post and hoped that raising his voice for "truth and principles that are important in my scheme of things" will not lead to "vendetta politics".