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The top court granted time till August 24 to Bhushan to reconsider his 'defiant statement' refusing to apologise for his contemptuous tweets and tender an unconditional apology.

Chandrayaan-2 was launched on July 22, 2019, and inserted into the lunar orbit on August 20, exactly a year ago.

Areas like the Old Delhi road in front of Maruti Gate-1, Unitech Cyber Park, Sector 4 and 5 roundabout, Jawala Mill Road and Golf Course Road in Gurugram were completely submerged on Wednesday.

Pranab Mukherjee, who was admitted to the Army's Research and Referral Hospital on August 10, developed a lung infection on Wednesday.

The bench asked Bhushan to reconsider this statement, observing it can be "very lenient" only if the person concerned can show a sense of remorse from the core of his heart.

"On his birth anniversary, tributes to former prime minister Shri Rajiv Gandhi Ji," Modi tweeted..

The total cases of coronavirus infections mounted to 28,36,925, while the death toll climbed to 53,866 with 977 new fatalities being reported in a day, the data updated at 8 am showed.

The assistant, Arun Kumar, had allegedly instigated the mob against sitting MLA R Akhanda Srinivasa Murthy and his sister who were the prime target of the vandals during the violence on August 11, said police sources.

The institute had in June asked all students, who got stranded because of lockdown, to leave the campus by June 30 and return two months later for the next semester, but a few of them remained there.

The Gorakhpur doctor was arrested on January 29 for an alleged provocative speech against the Citizenship Amendment Act at Aligarh Muslim University in December last year.

A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde said the allegations of bias made by the petitioner against the members of the Commission merely on the basis of newspaper reports and are liable to be rejected outright.

Conducted by CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology and CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, the study said individuals infected by SARS-CoV-2 shed virus not only through nasal and oral routes but also through faeces.

Singh said multiple recruitment examinations are a burden on candidates, as well as on the respective recruitment agencies, involving avoidable or repetitive expenditure, law and order issues and venue-related problems.

Many Congress leaders feel the party is missing the mark by focusing all its energy on the alleged BJP-Facebook nexus, instead of cornering the Modi government on unemployment and economy.

Thai police arrested activist lawyer Anon Nampa on Wednesday over an Aug. 3 protest at which he called for reform of the powerful monarchy, the second time he has been arrested this month, a police officer said.

Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd is one of the financial backers of Dream11. Last year, it became India’s first gaming start-up to be valued at over $1 billion. And the BCCI is stressing on the fact that Dream11 is an Indian company.