Manoj Sinha takes oath as new Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir

• Manoj Sinha was administered the oath of office by Jammu and Kashmir Chief Justice Gita Mittal in Raj Bhavan
• 61-year-old Manoj Sinha succeeds Girish Chandra Murmu

Rahul attacks Modi govt over India's covid-19 tally crossing 20-lakh mark

'The 20 lakh-mark has been crossed, the Modi government is missing, Rahul Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi, which was in a rhyme

China tyres now under DGFT lens

• Though the restriction is in general for all tyre imports, most tyres imported by either OEMs or for the after-sales market are sourced from China
• India has put import of tyres under the restricted category, which essentially means OEMs will require a licence to continue importing them

India slams Pakistan for criticising Ram Temple's foundation laying ceremony

• Pakistan should desist from interfering in India’s affairs and refrain from communal incitement, foreign ministry said

Delhi Decoded: Women of Shaheen Bagh

• With covid-19 restrictions being imposed across the country in March, the protest in Shaheen Bagh came to an abrupt end

India slams China's attempt to raise Kashmir issue at UN Security Council

• India’s parliament had on 5 August last year also passed a bill to allow the region to be integrated closer with New Delhi
• The move had caught Pakistan off guard as it took the Indian administered part of Kashmir off the negotiating table with Islamabad

Heat over NEP grows, lawmakers want to raise issue in HRD parliamentary panel

• The Congress has said NEP lacks clarity on implementation roadmap, and AAP has termed it a highly-regulated, poorly-funded education model while CPI (M) has called it a unilateral drive to destroy education system

Manoj Sinha appointed as new lieutenant governor of Jammu & Kashmir

• Manoj Sinha has represented the parliamentary constituency of Ghazipur in eastern Uttar Pradesh thrice in the Lok Sabha.

Complete lockdown in some areas in West Bengal's Nadia from Friday midnight

• Shops and market complexes will be shut, and public and private transport, except long-distance ones, will be off the roads
• West Bengal's Nadia has so far reported 12 COVID-19 deaths and at least 1,231 positive cases

Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Girish Chandra Murmu resigns: Report

Girish Chandra Murmu,60, belongs to the 1985-batch Indian Administrative Service and is from the Gujarat cadre. He was the principal secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi when Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat.

Biden’s campaign plans $280-mn ad blitz in fall, nearly twice as much as Trump

• Democratic candidate Joe Biden will going to spend twice as much as planned by President Trump during the final three months before the elections specifically targeting to Blacks, Hispanics and Asian Americans
• Joe Biden is trailing Trump in recent national polls by seven percentage points so far

DMK MLA, suspended for praising PM Modi, visits BJP office in Chennai

• The DMK now functions as a family's party, says Ku Ka Selvam at BJP office
• On Tuesday, Selvam praised Modi for good governance and extended his best wishes to him for efforts to construct the Ram temple in Ayodhya

A long wait has ended, says Modi at Ayodhya

• Ram temple would become the modern symbol of Indian traditions, devotion and national sentiment, the Prime Minister said

SC refers to constitution bench pleas challenging validity of 10% EWS quota

• Petitioners had challenged the 103rd constitutional amendment providing 10% EWS quota in government jobs and admissions to educational institutions on the ground that economic criterion cannot be the sole basis for reservation

SC to hold final hearing in BPSL insolvency case on 8 September

• Bhushan Power was part of the original dirty dozen cases identified by the Reserve Bank of India to be referred to bankruptcy courts
• JSW Steel, with an offer of ₹19,700 crore for the bankrupt steel mill, was the highest bidder for the asset

UP minister Brajesh Pathak tests positive for coronavirus

• 'After symptoms of coronavirus, I got tested on advice of doctors. I tested positive for Covid-19', UP minister Brajesh Pathak tweeted
• Earlier, state BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh also tested positive for coronavirus

Labour panel to meet Friday to examine govt welfare schemes for migrant workers

• The Centre had announced free distribution of food grains and pulses to 8 crore migrant labourers not covered under the NFSA or the PDS at 5kg per person per month for two months, which was later extended

Ram temple groundbreaking ceremony today, PM to attend

• The event signals the start of fulfilling a promise that has been part of BJP’s poll manifestos for decades
• Members of Ram Janmabhoomi Trust consulted senior BJP leaders to draw up the list of invitees

Delhi HC dismisses plea seeking stay on release of ‘Lootcase’

• The high court reiterated that there is no copyright in any idea, subject matter, theme or plot, and violation of copyright is confined to the form, manner and arrangement and the expression of the idea by the author of the copyright at work

Plea in HC seeks to ban online labs from collecting samples for covid testing

• The plea has claimed that these illegal aggregators are neither accredited by National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories nor approved by ICMR or any other authority for testing and diagnosing the disease