The political theatre in Rajasthan moved from Jaipur’s Fairmont Hotel, where Congress legislators who support Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot are currently put up, to the lawns of Raj Bhavan on Friday.

Gehlot and 100 legislators drove to the Raj Bhavan and squatted on its lawns in the afternoon, demanding that Governor Kalraj Mishra call an Assembly session on Monday to allow the government to prove its majority on the floor of the House.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan tests positive for COVID-19.

The minister took to Twitter to confirm the news. I was having symptoms of COVID-19, after the test, my report came positive. I appeal to all my colleagues that whoever has come in contact with me, get tested for COVID-19. My close contacts, please quarantine yourselves, he wrote.

India has witnessed a huge single-day spike of COVID-19 cases with 48,916 cases reported in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

With these fresh cases, India's coronavirus cases tally has gone up to 13,36,861, out of which there are 4,56,071 active cases and 8,49,431 patients have been cured/discharged/migrated.

The World Health Organization reported a record increase in global coronavirus cases on Friday, with the total rising by 284,196 in 24 hours.

Deaths rose by 9,753, the biggest one-day increase since a record high of 9,797 deaths on April 30.

The previous WHO record for new cases was 259,848 on July 18. Deaths have averaged 5,000 a day in July, up from an average of 4,600 a day in June.

An astounding rally in the shares of Muthoot Finance has made the lender big enough to be added to the MSCI India Index, analysts say.

Shares of India’s largest cash-for-gold lender have surged 71 per cent this year, the third-biggest gain on a gauge of the nation’s top 200 firms. The company is now valued at $7 billion, a size that may spur MSCI to include the stock in its gauge at the quarterly review due in August, according to Edelweiss Financial Services and Target Investing.

Gold prices today jumped to Rs 50,750 from Rs 50,200 per 10 gram on Friday, while silver fell to Rs 61,050 from Rs 62,000 per kg, according to the Good Returns website.

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

With Cinema halls in the country closed since March due to COVID-19, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry has recommended to the Union Home Ministry that they be allowed to reopen in August.

I&B Secretary Amit Khare indicated this at a closed-door industry interaction with the CII Media Committee on Friday. He said his opposite number in the Home Ministry, Ajay Bhalla, will take the final call.

Under attack from the Congress for not calling an Assembly session despite a request, Rajasthan Governor Kalraj Mishra on Friday shot off a letter to Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot after the latter said that his government will not be responsible if people of the state gherao Raj Bhavan.

Gehlot, along with his 100 MLAs camped at Raj Bhavan, demanding an urgent assembly session amid a raging political crisis and left after assurances.

Amid extensive research on the development of a COVID-19 vaccine, the Central government has provided seed funding to an Indian company for novel mRNA based vaccine candidate for coronavirus.

The Department of Biotechnology under the Ministry of Science & Technology has provided seed funding for the development of Gennova’s novel self-amplifying mRNA-based vaccine candidate for COVID19.

Thirteen people have been booked by the Delhi Customs for smuggling foreign cigarettes without pictorial warning on them worth Rs 66 lakh.

The passengers were stranded in Dubai due to COVID-19 and were evacuated to India on July 23.

Their flight arrived on Terminal 3 of the IGI Airport in Delhi and they were intercepted after they had crossed the Green Channel.

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