Liutenant-Governor Overrules Delhi Government Order & Other Top Stories

The Asian Age: The daily covered the death of the Congress sarpanch in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district. On Monday, unidentified gunmen shot dead a village head associated with the Congress party. All mainstream parties condemned the killing. The newspaper also carried the news of Gujarat Congress moving all its MLAs to a resort in Rajasthan over the fear of "poaching" by the BJP ahead of the Rajya Sabha polls.

Hindustan Times: The lead headline today focused on Lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal overruling the Aam Aadmi Party government's decision to restrict the admission and treatment of COVID-19 patient at both private and State-run city hospitals to those bearing documented proof of residence in Delhi. The other stories in focus include "India-China stand-off". India is working on two key roads near the China border in eastern Ladakh - the site of a tense weeks-long border stand-off with its northern neighbour - to provide connectivity to an important forward area that the military calls Sub-Sector North (SSN).

The Telegraph: The headline story gives a detailed report of "Calcuttans" bidding a graded goodbye to a stringent 75-day lockdown -- intended to slow the spread of COVID-19 -- and stepping out to resume their everyday business. The front page also carried a study which shows that the actual numbers of people infected by the novel coronavirus in some Indian cities could be 100 to 200 times the confirmed cases there.