The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 28.3 million, while the deaths have increased to over 913,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

As of Saturday morning, the total number of cases stood at 28,331,121 and the fatalities rose to 913,015, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed in its latest update.

The JD(U) made fresh inroads into the Grand Alliance as two Congress MLAs, a former RJD minister and several other leaders including an RLSP spokesman joined the ruling party ahead of the Bihar assembly polls due in October-November.

The opposition Grand Alliance comprises four parties
the RJD, Congress, RLSP and the Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP).

The Telangana Assembly on Friday passed various Bills to bring major reforms in the state's Revenue Department by reducing human interface for land transactions.

The government has scrapped the posts of Village Revenue Officers (VROs) and Village Revenue Assistants (VRAs).

During her NCB probe in Sushant Singh Rajput drug angle, Rhea Chakraborty named actresses Sara Ali Khan and Rakul Preet Singh too. She also informed that designer Simone Khambatta, Sushant's friend and former manager Rohini Iyer, and the actor's 'Dil Bechara' director Mukesh Chhabra also consumed the narcotics substances.

Rhea has revealed as many as 15 names who consume drugs, while being interrogated by the Narcotics Control Bureau. It has been learnt that they all belong to B-category of actors. They are now on NCB radar.

The problems with Shiv Sena is Maharashtra are increasing every day. Already locked in a verbal spat with Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut, another incident on Friday added to the party's problems after a retired navy officer was brutally thrashed by Shiv Sainiks in Mumbai.

At around 4 pm on Friday evening, five-six Shiv Sainiks beat up a retired Navy officer Madan Sharma badly after he shared a cartoon on Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on WhatsApp.

In a major organisational rejig in the Congress on Friday, the party's working committee and dropped senior leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Ambika Soni as general secretaries. Several other leaders Motilal Vora, Mallikarjun Kharge and Luizinho Falerio were also dropped from their posts. Azad and Soni, however, continue in the reconstituted working committee.

In the reshuffle, Randeep Surjewala came out a gainer as he has been inducted in the high-power six-member panel that advises the Congress president.

Gold prices today jumped to Rs 54,820 from Rs 54,600 per 10 gm, while silver climbs to Rs 68,560 from Rs 67,900 per kg, according to the Good Returns website.

Gold jewellery prices vary across India, the second-largest consumer of the metal, due to excise duty, state taxes, and making charges.

The result of a serosurvey in Andhra Pradesh has shown that 19.7 per cent of people have developed antibodies to COVID-19. It also revealed that a high percentage of people who had contracted the coronavirus were asymptomatic, said the State government.

A month after the efforts to conduct the sero surveillance began in Andhra Pradesh as instructed by Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, the result of the survey across all the 13 districts are out.

With the highest single-day spike of 96,551 new cases and 1,209 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, India's COVID-19 count crossed the 45-lakh mark on Friday.

According to the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry, the COVID-19 case tally stands at 45,62,415 in the country.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that the New Education Policy (NEP 2020) will sow the seeds for starting a new era and will give a new direction to the 21st century.

Addressing students at the School Education Conclave, PM Modi talked about the changes the NEP 2020 will bring.

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