Corona  

India is conducting 828 Covid tests per day per million, as against 140 tests per million per day, thereby exceeding the number set by WHO 

The VSSUT students have started an initiative, ‘Unlock Education, The New Face of Knowledge’.
 

CEO of the Serum Institute of India, Adar Poonawalla has praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his coronavirus vaccine offer to the world during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)

“India will not hesitate in raising its voice against the enemies of humanity, human race and human values – these include terrorism, smuggling of illegal weapons, drugs and money-laundering,” PM Modi said at UNGA. 

On August 2, Shah, 55, had said on Twitter that he had tested positive for COVID-19. He had undergone treatment at Medanta Hospital and was discharged after he tested negative for the disease. 
 

Uttar Pradesh Shia cleric Maulana Kalbe Jawad Naqvi has given a call to defy the Lucknow Police Commissionerate’s order on blanket ban on all Muharram rituals in the wake of COVID-19 protocols 

Karnataka high court has granted bail to a public servant accused of writing an alleged incendiary statement on Facebook on the grounds that the police had sought no prior permission to prosecute him
 

A school student, through social media, has raised funds to donate protective gears to health workers. She collected Rs 79,000 through social media

Amit Shah, on Sunday (August 2), tested positive for COVID-19 and was admitted to hospital
 

Union home minister Amit Shah has tested positive for coronavirus, the minister tweeted on Sunday afternoon

The ICMR in collaboration with the health ministry and the AIIMS is planning to set up the National Clinical Registry which will help researchers and policy makers understand lot of things in improving COVID-19 treatment

States like Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka and Tripura are yet to follow directives on timely payment of salaries to healthcare workers engaged in COVID-19
 

 Sunni Waqf Board has constituted a trust to build a mosque on the Ayodhya land as mandated by the Supreme Court

Prince Habeebuddin Tucy, a sixth-generation descendant of Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, has gotten a gold brick made for the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya

As the Congress held a ‘Save Democracy and Save Constitution’ campaign, the BJP has criticised it alleging that it has flouted the COVID-19 norms