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.

The Rajasthan High Court will deliver its verdict on a petition by Congress’ 19 dissident legislators, including Sachin Pilot, against the Assembly Speaker’s move to disqualify them on Friday at 10:30 am.

On Thursday morning, Rajasthan Assembly Speaker C P Joshi failed to get any temporary relief on his plea in the Supreme Court (SC) that the high court cannot interdict the disqualification proceedings undertaken by him under the 10th Schedule of the Constitution.

Wife of slain gangster Vikas Dubey on Thursday said that she had unsuccessfully tried to convince her husband to leave the path of crime. She said that the family has been left in the lurch after gangster's death.

About the claim that Dubey had acquired property worth crores of rupees, she said it was "fake news" and that her husband has left the family to fend for themselves.

Gold prices on Friday surged to new highs of Rs 50,703 from Rs 50,552 per 10 gram while prices of silver also climed to Rs 60,785 from Rs 60,586 per kg, according to India Bullion and Jewellers Association.

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

GST rates can be reduced further once the tax base increases and everyone pays taxes properly, Finance Secretary Ajay Bhushan Pandey said on Thursday.

Once the tax base increases and if we are able to enforce our tax laws and everyone pays taxes properly, there will be definitely scope for further reduction of taxes, he said.

After Glenmark’s Fabiflu, a second favipiravir—an oral antiviral drug used in Covid-19 treatment—has got approval from the drugs regulator.

Pune-based Brinton Pharmaceuticals said on Thursday it had got the nod from the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) to market its brand Faviton, priced at Rs 59 per tablet.

India has yet again witnessed its highest single-day spike of COVID-19 cases with 49,310 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 12,87,945, out of which there are 4,40,135 active cases and 8,17,209 patients have been cured/discharged/migrated.

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