one more minister in Uttar Pradesh, Dara Singh Johan, quits the BJP ahead of the election. He is the sixth leader to have left the party in Uttar Pradesh in two days. Meanwhile, Swami Prasad Morea, who quit the party yesterday, tells NDTV My exit caused tremors in the BJP. A day after his resignation, an arrest warrant in a 2000 Fortin hate speech case against him, the centre announces that the coveted positivity rate has gone phenomenally high. 300 districts now have a positivity rate of over 5% a day after a top epidemiologist pointed out set a McCrone was like a common called the Centre says it's no such thing, also clarifies that seven day home quarantine is a must for contacts from polio campaigns. Election bound states to harvest festivals and massive crowds continue right through the covet search. The Aam Aadmi Party chiefs door to door campaign in Mohali are just after his own for been recovered. E and cops are also relaxed for who and the Ganga Sagar Mela as positivity sorts. The army chief says the Nagaland killings of civilians were regrettable, also says will emerge victorious if there is conflict in eastern Ladakh on questions on the border. It also says will extract Diouf costs of terror a double whammy for the economy. Inflation spikes even as I'm growth slows down. Retail inflation is at a six month high of 5.59%. November Iight growth slows to a nine month low of just 1.4%. Two. The Big Storey A second minister Dara Singh Chauhan, has quit Yogi Altoona cabinet in Uttar Pradesh after Swami Prasad Maury a shock resignation yesterday. He is the second leader to quit Team Yogi just before next month. State election. His reasons for doing so, in fact, echoed Maria's explanation offered less than 24 hours earlier. However, while Akhilesh Yadav has been quick to tweet photographs of himself with the leaders exiting the BJP, the net tha's for now are playing it cool. Interestingly, a court and Sultan Poor also issued an arrest warrant against Swami Prasad Morea in a case over a hate speech he allegedly made in 2040 first Swami Prasad Maria and now a resignation Buy up Government Minister Dara Singh Johan. The reason offered mirroring those of Moria, the alleged neglect of backward classes by the government. Once again, a tweet from Akhilesh Yadav welcoming Mr Johann Yes shh Garibay Ge or her face is Kitchen Ami Barge Aldi Nominations. Lagarde Our nominee, JJ officially War Sambisa, More edgy sodomy, Cushy ANC, Assad or sat Be Samajwadi Party. GI Joe Ana, Paula Sami Malala is Khorasan Kia, but like Swami Prasad Morea, Johan says he will decide later in case I Lok Sabha J. Sanka today. Poor Mohammed Cabinet Dukakis are carbon e of Sarkar Panicky baht in saffron. Johan is an obese leader from Eastern up. He was a long term Bahujan Samaj Party leader before joining the BJP in 2015. When he joined, he was made the president of the BJP's A BK Morcha and in 2017 he became the minister for environment and forests. Sources in the BJP claimed that Dara Singh Chauhan was unpopular in his area and was going to be dropped anyway. But two big ministers and four MLA. Exiting the BJP in a space of 24 hours is bad news for the party. 24 hours after he resigned from Yogi Aditya Cabinet and arrest warrant against Swami Prasad Maria from a court in full tin poor in an ongoing case over a hate speech he allegedly made in 2014. But Maria remained unfazed and was still cryptic about joining Akhilesh Yadav. Samajwadi Party. Hm Ari's depend of Kuwait Vishwanath correct Um, you see John Madden a joke are about There are the the grey as cable in a panic after it's a cheque. Our car Joe had Rokita Michel's lot. Our ministry Mills. Our son Rahul, he barked. Monaco! Wrong! Maria will be non committal about joining the SP, but many from the party visited him in today, including this ex MLA from Eastern up ice Aku Evidence Habaniya hard. A question with everybody is asking whether more be lawmakers will quit and align themselves with Prasad or with benefits. Samajwadi Party. One of the ministers about whom rumours are circulating Harm Sing Danny issued this video today. Party. Um, the Deputy Chief Minister once again tweeting an appeal for a dialogue. But the BJP's local unit in Sushi Nagar, from where Maria is MLA, both crackers over the exit and called it good riddance. Put comically Anuj unpack A okay from Brega. Our seats are untrue. Cgt There is speculation more ministers could quit and join Morea and Johan soon with Sing Saurav Shukla in Vinita Verma Listers Alok Pandey, NDTV and in a face saver for the BJP Congress, MLA Naresh Saini and a Samajwadi Party, MLA Harry Um Yadav, both from up joining the BJP. Both are also from backward castes. The BJP's decision to induct them into its fold appears to be aimed at refuting suggestions that it is confronting challenges in maintaining its strength among vacation. With India's covet positivity rate at 11.5% the centre today said that the rise in the positivity rate in the last 12 days have seen sharp and concerning let's take a look at the overall numbers as well India reporting in fact, close to to lock cases today. But also there's been a rise in deaths in the last two weeks in 24 states has been an average 56% rise in the number of deaths, the actual number being 973 excluding Kerala where deaths have actually reduced. But states with the maximum number of cases include Maharashtra with 2.6 lakh cases, West Bengal with 1.3, Delhi has the same figure. Tamil Nadu has 70 for 1000 cases and Karnataka with 65,000 cases. Now ST Switch Shah are seeing the fastest to rise. Currently. Top of the list is worryingly the pole bound Uttar Pradesh, which is seen a weekly rise of 1300%. And that's followed by Bihar and second place Pud Ooh, Sherry Tripura and Madhya Pradesh. India. Seeing a surge in covert across the country, Kolkata positivity rate is a staggering 60% Mumbai's at 27% in Delhi and Chennai at 23%. You can see rapidly rising tested positive phenomenally 25% 30% 60%. The immediate worry are the election campaign in five states. Rallies are banned till Saturday but there are still small gathering wear. Masks and social distancing are largely missing cove. It rains in pole bound states at a major cause of concern. Major cities in all five states seeing positivity rate of 5% and more UPS weekly cases arising at over 1300%. UPS reproduction number at 3.5, the highest worse is India's one point for less than 1% indicate spread of cases, 16 of 20 to Punjab districts have positively rate above 5%. Bigley positively rate in all of Goa is over 23%. However, the centre today refused to say whether the ban on election rallies they are sharing data with the election Commission. Jaycee situation evolved. WHO? Election Commission A yoga top officials have urged the public to take home a crown seriously and warned that it can badly hit healthcare system. Macron is not common cold Seo mi grown keep Rajasa stayed a shank Health system collapse Okay Seiki Raja Saheb A hot health workers Coke armature like a bat Nepal or pressure products during assembly elections in five states last year. Stricter curves to contain the spread of 19 but brought in by the Election Commission of India. Similar curves are expected this time as well in the poll bound state amid arising third wave of covert 19 in the country. More important will be to see that whether these calls are implemented on the ground and inspected by the political parties as well. The care of our son Ashok Mahalia machine Only 20 d v with covert testing rules seem to have been tweaked with a U turn from the government in just 48 hours on Monday, the government had said asymptomatic contacts need not be tested today. It clarified that even if asymptomatic contacts are not tested, all contacts do have to home quarantine for seven days. Most important, his firm, Corrine. Time for all context for seventies. So if I have I have come here for work, I go back home and I test positive. All my relatives who are above 60 or comb abilities should be tested. All my Children etcetera should not be tested but have to be in home. Corrine Tine for seven days have to be in home, Corrine time for seventies as per guidelines and and continue to wear mosques. So use of mask is vitally important. When you're doing home quarantine, Delhi has logged 27,561 fresh covet cases are 29% rise in 24 hours. It's the most number of cases in a day. Since April of 2021 the positivity rate has touched 26% which is once again the highest in seven months in April. On the 20th of April last year, the city reported 3 28,095 cases well today Deli also reported 40 Covic deaths, and that is the most since the 10th of June, when 44 deaths were recorded. Active covet cases now stand at 87,000 for 45 which is also the highest. In eight months, 47,723 new cases have been reported from Maharashtra, which also saw 32 new deaths being reported now. Of these of the sequenced tests, 86 were found to be McCrone, but it can safely be assumed that almost all of them are indeed or macron cases. As for Mumbai, 16,420 new covet cases were reported in Mumbai alone, and this is a 40% rise in just 24 hours. The positivity rate has once again spite from 18.75% yesterday to 24.38% today. The number of tests did go up, but the only silver lining in all of this, the BMC claims 83% patients are asymptomatic. We have increased our line from 10 lanes to 30 lines. Now even the War room doctor staff has been increased even the area of the war room has been increasing. The BNC CA VID board war rooms are critical piece of infrastructure in tackling the third wave of cove, it largely believed to be driven by the omicron variant. Now, in this wave, most patients are in home isolation, and that means that the war war owns are keeping track of their treatment, but a so you can see how every detail of the patient hoods and home isolation is being collected here by this lady from the ward War Room of the The patients say they feel assured by the calls. Wait a anchor. Gupta, a bank employee, says the war more room has been following up regularly with him. BNC has been really, really improve active in making sure that, you know, I am not left alone in such tough times. I got multiple calls from various people m BNC asking if I needed anything. If I needed any help. Here's another call that's taking place at the same time. Let's just listening to this conversation as well have take a last 2 to 3 days. We are issuing near about 400 100 college, but before that 2 to 3 days before we were receiving their list of patients. This is how the World war rooms in Mumbai a tackling the third wave of covet with cameraperson Rajendra Alker inside the ward war um of the G, not Ward Sarah Gupta, NDTV With the Big Harvest Festival now just days away their fears that they could become super spreader events already covered curbs have been relaxed in Assam despite soaring positivity. The Bengal chief minister's decision to allow the Ganga Sagar festival to go ahead has also raised eyebrows. Andhra Pradesh to has postponed night curfew ahead of Makar sank Rantie Assam is gearing up for its biggest harvest festival, Bogalay Bayou, at a time when there is a major Corbett spike with 2800 cases reported yesterday. Yet the state government has lifted curbs to a love celebrations but not large gatherings, mostly in touch with the various organizer's of functions, and all since know express restrictions have been put. As of now, we are still monitoring the situations. Curfew hours would be relaxed for a day to allow people to celebrate the WHO, even though experts say a large community gathering might cost a big surge in places like Guwahati, where the positive rate is above 10%. Replication level is madaya, Dad are then the other Varian. That is why you must be very concerned and we must be very cautious at a time when Assam is witnessing a major spike in the number of cases with the positivity rate in Guwahati, more than 10 persons people are also gearing up to celebrate Assam's biggest festival, Bogalay Behove in Bengal, to which is badly hit by the current search. The authorities have allowed visitors and holy men from many states at the Ganga Sorry Mela Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has allowed public events. Even the provisions have been made for rt PCR test and also vaccinations at the venue even though vaccinations efficacy kicks in only after two weeks at sick. Andhra Badran v station rushed to catch trains headed to Andhra Pradesh as people go home, the native towns and villages for four days of sank Rantie celebrations. Donna Anna Jonah Satya praised K Krone Camas Marsala Yes, Santa and Mosque government that had initially imposed night curfew from Tuesday 11th of January responded by one week from January 18 to 31st. It also said no more than 200 people are public eventual ceremonies and no more than 100 people in indoor events, whereas cockfights like this one are very popular and I usually witnessed for several hundreds. Experts worry that the celebrations may take the covet numbers from the urban cities to the villages where the service festival is largely celebrated with Rock 90 Chaudhary, Guwahati, Shankar in Kolkata and Nag Raju in Hyde Park. You must be for NDTV. India and China have been working on mutual disengagement and they have been positive developments, but the threat is very much there. That was the army Chief General. Mm Nah, Rabbani, telling reporters this at an annual press conference that he holds ahead of our Me day. I think it is quite clear and I think the Amy also made reference to it when they said that the amassing of large forces by the Chinese in eastern Ladakh is the root cause of this situation which developed. But now that they are dead and they made a lot of infrastructure, it remains to be seen whether they will permanently station themselves. They're terrorism carries in themselves there or whether they would be amenable to some kind of the induction in times to come. War is also always conflict is always an instrument of last resort but is resorted to we will come out with tourists. The news updates continue and NDTV 24 7 to keep.
