President Donald Trump on Sunday announced emergency authorisation to treat COVID-19 patients with convalescent plasma a move he called a breakthrough, one of his top health officials called promising and other health experts said needs more study before it's celebrated.

The announcement came after White House officials complained there were politically motivated delays by the Food and Drug Administration in approving a vaccine and therapeutics for the disease that has upended Trump's reelection chances.

Members of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on Sunday staged a protest at the party office in Nandigama town in Krishna district demanding Amaravati should continue to remain as the sole capital of Andhra Pradesh.

The TDP leaders and cadre raised slogans No to three capitals, Amaravati is the sole capital.

Ahead of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting on Monday, the dissenters in the party seeking a leadership change have suffered a major setback as all four party Chief Ministers and various state units have sided with the Gandhis and lashed out against those who had written the letter for change and leaked it to the media.

After the letter surfaced, it is now raining letters in favour of interim party chief Sonia Gandhi and former President Rahul Gandhi.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and other politicians paid tribute to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) veteran leader and former finance minister of India Late Arun Jaitley on his first death anniversary.

Jaitley died on August 24 last year.

Taking to microblogging site Twitter, PM Modi said that Jaitley's wit, intellect, legal acumen and warm personality were legendary.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast light rains and drizzle in parts of Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) on Monday.

Drizzle over South-Delhi, Dadri and Kosali during the next two hours, it said.

Light rain/ drizzle would occur over and adjoining areas of Palwar, Ballabhgarh, Farukhnagar and isolated areas of entire Delhi during next two hours, it added.

A team of Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad carried out raids at several areas in Balrampur on Sunday following the arrest of alleged ISIS operative Abu Yusuf. Earlier today, a huge amount of explosives, including explosive jacket, were recovered from Balrampur in Uttar Pradesh, sources said.

The jacket was allegedly prepared for a fidayeen attack, they added.

Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district will soon come up with the world's highest railway bridge which will be 35 metres taller than Eiffel Tower. The bridge, which is being built over the Chenab river is likely to be completed by August 2022.

The bridge will connect Kashmir valley with Katra in Jammu and the rest of the country. It will also reduce the journey time by 5-6 hours from Katra to Srinagar.

Metro train services in Delhi might resume on a trial basis as the COVID-19 situation was improving in the city Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Sunday. He hoped that the Centre would soon take a decision on the matter.

Talking city to traders, entrepreneurs, and businessmen in a 'Digital Samvad', the chief minister said that the issue has been raised with the Centre many times and hopefully a decision will be taken soon.

Ten post-mortem examinations performed on patients with confirmed COVID-19 found that all patients had lung injuries and early scarring of the lungs as a result of the virus, as well as injury to their kidneys.

Nine patients also had thrombosis - a blood clot, in at least one major organ (heart, lung or kidney). The team was unable to investigate thrombosis in the tenth patient.

India's COVID-19 tally zoomed past 29 lakh, a day after it crossed 28 lakh, with asingle-day spike of68,898 infections, while the recoveries have increased to 21,58,946 on Friday taking the recovery rate to over 74 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data.

The total cases of coronavirus infections mounted to 29,05,823, while the death toll climbed to54,849 with 983 new fatalities being reported in a span of 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am showed.

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