With over 70,000 new cases reported in the last 24 hours, India's COVID-19 count on Wednesday (September 29) crossed the 61 lakh-mark, while the death toll has topped the 96,000-mark as well.

At 9:30 AM on this day, the COVID-19 tally in the country has reached 61,45,292 cases, which include 9,47,576 active cases; 51,01,398 cured, discharged, or migrated patients, and 96,318 deaths.

The 19-year-old Dalit woman who was gang-raped by four men in Hathras in Uttar Pradesh four days passed away on Tuesday morning. She was struggling for her life under ventilator in an Aligarh hospital for three days, after which she was shifted to Safdarjung, Delhi yesterday, but her conditions failed to improve in the slightest.

Gold prices today at Rs 53,030 per 10 gm, silver trends at Rs 59,000 a kg

Gold prices today climbed to Rs 52,740 from Rs 53,030 per 10 gm, while silver was trending at Rs 58,000 per kg, according to the Good Returns website.

A rupee invested in Adani Enterprises two-and-a-half decades back has given over 800-times return, billionaire Gautam Adani said as he saw his infrastructure conglomerate evolve into an integrated 'platform of platforms'.

Speaking at the JP Morgan India Summit - Future in Focus, the Adani Group chairman said the seaports-to-airports-to-energy group's incubation model has created six publicly-traded companies with thousands of jobs and unprecedented shareholder value.

In a move to further clean the Ganga, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate six mega projects in Uttarakhand under the Namami Gange Mission on Tuesday via a video conference.

These projects include construction of a 68 MLD sewage treatment plant (STP), upgradation of the existing 27 MLD at Jagjeetpur in Haridwar and construction of an 18 MLD STP at Sarai in Haridwar.

On Monday, a panel of doctors from the prestigious All India Institute Of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) forensic team submitted to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) the forensic report and met with the agency's officials to discuss the findings of the investigation done in late actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death case. The meeting took place for over two hours.

Three people were killed after an under-construction building in Bawamanpura area of Gujarat's Vadodara collapsed in the wee hours of Tuesday i.e. September 29.

The deceased include one female and two male.

Home-grown financial services platform Paytm, which was briefly removed from Google Play Store for alleged policy violations earlier this month, said on Monday that it has brought back the Paytm Cricket League with UPI cashback and scratch cards.

Now, users can collect stickers of their favourite cricket stars as they pay digitally for their mobile bills, recharges, buying groceries or money transfers, Paytm said.

The Indian rupee advanced 6 paise to 73.55 against the US dollar in opening trade on Monday tracking weak American currency and positive domestic equities.

The local unit opened 3 paise lower at 73.64 at the interbank forex market, then gained ground and touched 73.55 against the greenback, up 6 paise over its previous close.

The Maharashtra Congress on monday said it will be quite painful if the JD(U) gives poll ticket to former Bihar DGP Gupteshwar Pandey "who had insulted Mumbai Police", at a time when Devendra Fadnavis is BJPs election in-charge in the eastern state.

A lot of questions will be asked by people of Maharashtra if former state chief minister Devendra Fadnavis does not oppose Pandey getting candidature, Maharashtra Congress spokesperson Sachin Sawant said on Twitter.

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