Daily NEWS Summary: 19.07.2020

With Rajasthan’s political crisis continuing for the ninth day, Avinash Pande, the observer of the Rajasthan from All-India Congress Committee (AICC), said the party would decide on ‘merit’ if some rebel MPs want to return to Congress, the Congress General Secretary said that the Prime Minister of Rajasthan, Ashok Gehlot, is fully ready to demonstrate his strength to the Assembly and that his government will complete its 5 year term. However, Pande declined to say whether Congress would attempt to contact former Rajasthan Congressman Sachin Pilot. The party is now awaiting the decision of the High Court of Rajasthan, which will rule on the challenge of Pilot and other dissident MPs.

Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Sunday launched a new attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and accused the ruling party of “institutionalizing” the lies by manipulating data on new coronavirus-related deaths, the proceeds gross interior, the confrontation with China and claimed that “India will have to pay the price”.

American Indian votes crucial for “battlefield” states

• Three and a half months before Election Day, prominent Democrats urged the Indo-American community to vote this year and support the presumed candidate.
• Democrat Joe Biden, emphasizing his character and history of support for India-EE Relationship.
• The Indo-American vote and the AAPI vote (a term used in the United States to refer to the community of the United States of America and the Pacific Islands), more generally, could make a significant difference in elections, Tom said, president of the National Democratic Committee (DNC) Pérez.
• There are approximately 1.3 million eligible American Indian voters in eight battlefield states, namely: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin.

The number of coronavirus cases reported in India is 11.15,080 with a death toll of 27,512. The case fatality rate (CFR) in India fell below 2.5% for the first time on Sunday, according to a press release published by the Union Ministry of Health The ministry attributes this reduction to the focused efforts of the center and the US / US governments in the effective clinical management of inpatient cases. Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu recorded its biggest single-day increase on Sunday after 4,979 new cases were reported. The number of coronaviruses in the state has risen to 1,70693

“The effective containment strategy, aggressive testing and standardised clinical management protocols based on holistic standard care approach has now caused the case fatality rate to significantly dip and India now has one of the lowest case fatality rates in the world (2.49%) which is also progressively falling,”

said a Ministry release.