July 6, 2020: Top 10 headlines of the day

India, China agree to disengage at the LAC, confusion over ICMR’s August 15 vaccine deadline, reports of IPL 2020 in UAE or Sri Lanka, and more in today’s news wrap.

India, China agree to end tensions on the border after top-level call

India and China on Monday agreed that it was necessary to ensure at the earliest “complete disengagement of the troops along the LAC and de-escalation from border areas for full restoration of peace and tranquillity” after a telephone conversation between NSA Ajit Doval and Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi. Read More

Confusion deepens over ICMR’s August 15 vaccine deadline

Amid the ongoing controversy over the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)‘s letter to clinical trial partners, which said an indigenous COVID-19 vaccine was to be launched “latest by 15 August 2020”, the research body and the Ministry of Science gave out confusing messages over the weekend about the timeline. Read More

IPL may be held in Sri Lanka or UAE: Reports

While the ICC continues to delay making a final decision on the T20 World Cup scheduled for later this year, the BCCI has reportedly decided to go ahead with their plans for the IPL, that’s slated to be played in the window that’s been marked out for the T20 WC. Read More

China sounds red alert on bubonic plague

As the entire world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, a city in Northern China on Sunday sounded an alert after a suspected case of bubonic plague was reported. A level III warning of plague prevention and control was announced. The local health authorities also alerted that the warning period would last until the end of 2020. Read More

WATCH: Bengaluru’s doctor’s emotional plea goes viral

A video of a private doctor appealing to fellow doctors to join the battle against the coronovirus went viral on Sunday, as the count of positive cases in Karnataka crossed 20,000 mark. Watch the video

‘Rahul doesn’t attend a single Parliament meeting on defence’: JP Nadda

Launching a fresh attack on Rahul Gandhi, BJP president JP Nadda said on Monday that the Congress leader "has not attended" a single meeting of Parliament's standing committee on defence but continues to "demoralise" the nation and question the valour of the armed forces. Read More

TMC MP Mahua Moitra takes a swipe at PM Narendra Modi

Mahua Moitra, the Trinamool Congress MP from Krishnanagar, West Bengal has targeted Prime Minister Modi using the controversy over ICMR’s August 15 deadline for an indigenous COVID-19 vaccine as a prop. Read More

UP’s cop-killing gangster Vikas Dubey still on the run

As fugitive gangster Vikas Dubey remains absconding for the third day after gunning down eight policemen in Kanpur, the reward on him has been increased from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 2.5 lakh post approval from UP DGP HC Awasthi on Monday. Read More

Haryana clears 75% quota for residents in private jobs

Haryana cabinet on Monday cleared 75% reservation in private jobs for residents of the state. The council of ministers had on January 31 deferred a proposal to approve the draft private sector quota bill and referred it to the law secretary for vetting following prolonged deliberations among the cabinet members. Read More

Rohit can’t stop, won’t stop scoring World Cup tons

On this day (July 06) in 2019, Indian opener Rohit Sharma became the only batsman to score five hundreds in a single edition of the World Cup. Rohit broke Kumar Sangakkara’s record of four centuries during the 2015 World Cup. The ‘Hitman’ and master blaster Sachin Tendulkar now have 6 hundreds to their name in the premier event. Here’s a look at Rohit’s tons in 2019

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