Oil prices fell further on Friday and were on track for a second weekly drop after the US stock markets tumbled and US stockpiles rose unexpectedly.

Brent fell 28 cents, or 0.7 per cent, at $30.78 a barrel by 12:10 GMT, and US crude was down 17 cents, or 0.5 per cent, to $37.13 a barrel.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate 1.75 lakh houses built in Madhya Pradesh under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Rural) on Saturday.

The Prime Minister will participate in the program through video conferencing and will also talk with some of the beneficiaries of the scheme.

Over three-fourth of reported COVID-19 cases in India have either recovered or been discharged, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) informed on Saturday.

In a tweet, Union Heath Ministry shared a picture which showed the country's recovery rate at 77.65 per cent while the percentage of active cases stands at 20.7 per cent.

Investigating the drug angle in Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death case, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Saturday raided around seven locations in Mumbai and Goa.

A high-level meeting is reportedly scheduled to be held later in the day at NCB Mumbai to chart the next course of action in the case.

The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 28.3 million, while the deaths have increased to over 913,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

As of Saturday morning, the total number of cases stood at 28,331,121 and the fatalities rose to 913,015, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed in its latest update.

The JD(U) made fresh inroads into the Grand Alliance as two Congress MLAs, a former RJD minister and several other leaders including an RLSP spokesman joined the ruling party ahead of the Bihar assembly polls due in October-November.

The opposition Grand Alliance comprises four parties
the RJD, Congress, RLSP and the Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP).

The Telangana Assembly on Friday passed various Bills to bring major reforms in the state's Revenue Department by reducing human interface for land transactions.

The government has scrapped the posts of Village Revenue Officers (VROs) and Village Revenue Assistants (VRAs).

During her NCB probe in Sushant Singh Rajput drug angle, Rhea Chakraborty named actresses Sara Ali Khan and Rakul Preet Singh too. She also informed that designer Simone Khambatta, Sushant's friend and former manager Rohini Iyer, and the actor's 'Dil Bechara' director Mukesh Chhabra also consumed the narcotics substances.

Rhea has revealed as many as 15 names who consume drugs, while being interrogated by the Narcotics Control Bureau. It has been learnt that they all belong to B-category of actors. They are now on NCB radar.

The problems with Shiv Sena is Maharashtra are increasing every day. Already locked in a verbal spat with Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut, another incident on Friday added to the party's problems after a retired navy officer was brutally thrashed by Shiv Sainiks in Mumbai.

At around 4 pm on Friday evening, five-six Shiv Sainiks beat up a retired Navy officer Madan Sharma badly after he shared a cartoon on Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on WhatsApp.

In a major organisational rejig in the Congress on Friday, the party's working committee and dropped senior leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Ambika Soni as general secretaries. Several other leaders Motilal Vora, Mallikarjun Kharge and Luizinho Falerio were also dropped from their posts. Azad and Soni, however, continue in the reconstituted working committee.

In the reshuffle, Randeep Surjewala came out a gainer as he has been inducted in the high-power six-member panel that advises the Congress president.

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