Vice President Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday tested positive for COVID-19. Taking to micro-blogging site Twitter, the official account of the Vice President, Naidu said he is asymptomatic and in good health.

The Vice President has been advised home quarantine. His wife Usha Naidu has tested negative and is in self-isolation.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear a petition seeking the release of former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti.

The plea was filed by Mufti's daughter Iltija Mufti.

In July, Mufti's detention under Public Safety Act (PSA) was extended by three months.

The Centre on Monday informed the Supreme Court that a decision on the issue of waiver of interest on deferred EMIs during the moratorium is at an advanced stage and likely to be taken within two or three days.

A three-judge bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan noted that Solicitor General Tushar Mehta has informed the court that the issues are under active consideration by the government, and it is likely that a decision may be taken within two or three days.

With over 70,000 new cases reported in the last 24 hours, India's COVID-19 count on Wednesday (September 29) crossed the 61 lakh-mark, while the death toll has topped the 96,000-mark as well.

At 9:30 AM on this day, the COVID-19 tally in the country has reached 61,45,292 cases, which include 9,47,576 active cases; 51,01,398 cured, discharged, or migrated patients, and 96,318 deaths.

The 19-year-old Dalit woman who was gang-raped by four men in Hathras in Uttar Pradesh four days passed away on Tuesday morning. She was struggling for her life under ventilator in an Aligarh hospital for three days, after which she was shifted to Safdarjung, Delhi yesterday, but her conditions failed to improve in the slightest.

Gold prices today at Rs 53,030 per 10 gm, silver trends at Rs 59,000 a kg

Gold prices today climbed to Rs 52,740 from Rs 53,030 per 10 gm, while silver was trending at Rs 58,000 per kg, according to the Good Returns website.

A rupee invested in Adani Enterprises two-and-a-half decades back has given over 800-times return, billionaire Gautam Adani said as he saw his infrastructure conglomerate evolve into an integrated 'platform of platforms'.

Speaking at the JP Morgan India Summit - Future in Focus, the Adani Group chairman said the seaports-to-airports-to-energy group's incubation model has created six publicly-traded companies with thousands of jobs and unprecedented shareholder value.

In a move to further clean the Ganga, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate six mega projects in Uttarakhand under the Namami Gange Mission on Tuesday via a video conference.

These projects include construction of a 68 MLD sewage treatment plant (STP), upgradation of the existing 27 MLD at Jagjeetpur in Haridwar and construction of an 18 MLD STP at Sarai in Haridwar.

On Monday, a panel of doctors from the prestigious All India Institute Of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) forensic team submitted to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) the forensic report and met with the agency's officials to discuss the findings of the investigation done in late actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death case. The meeting took place for over two hours.

Three people were killed after an under-construction building in Bawamanpura area of Gujarat's Vadodara collapsed in the wee hours of Tuesday i.e. September 29.

The deceased include one female and two male.

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