Samajwadi Party patriarch and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav was on late Sunday night admitted at the Medanta hospital in Lucknow after he complained of ailments in his stomach.

This is the second time that the Samajwadi leader has been admitted to the hospital within the span of just five days. Earlier on Wednesday, Yadav had been brought to the hospital for a routine check-up but was admitted on the advice of doctors who were catering to the veteran leader's stomach and urine-related issues, according to Samajwadi Party spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary.

India and China had a heated confrontation a few days ago in north Sikkim and troops of both sides received injuries, army sources said on Sunday.

News agency PTI quoted official sources saying that a number of personnel on both sides sustained injuries as they exchanged punches. The troops disengaged after a dialogue at the local level, sources added.

The US is working to temporarily ban the issuance of some work-based visas like H-1B, popular among highly-skilled Indian IT professionals, as well as students visas and work authorisation that accompanies them, amidst the high level of unemployment due to the coronavirus, according to a media report on Friday.

Union Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah on Saturday wrote to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee informing her that the central government is not getting the TMC-led Bengal state government's support in helping migrant labourers reach home. The issue revolves around the lack of cooperation between the central and state governments over the migrant workers' crisis.

The total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection in India crossed the 59,000-mark on Saturday, while the death toll is nearing the 2,000-mark as well. At 9 AM on this day, the COVID-19 tally in the country has reached 59,662 cases, which includes 39,84 are active cases; 17,847 cured, discharged, or migrated patients, and 1,981 deaths.

According to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, as many as 3,320 new COVID-19 cases and 95 deaths were reported in the country in the last 24 hours.

A day after the gas leak incident in Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam which claimed 11 lives, former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Friday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging the central government to organise a 'scientific probe' into the Vizag Gas Leak incident.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Saturday issued notices to the Maharashtra government and the District Magistrate of Aurangabad over the rail accident in the region a day ago, where 16 migrant workers returning home were crushed to death by a goods train.

The NHRC issued the notices after taking suo motu cognizance of media reports regarding the incident, which occurred between Badnapur and Karmad stations in the Nanded Division.

As Mumbai continues to be the most-affected city in India from coronavirus, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Chief BMC Commissioner Praveen Pardeshi has been transferred in the middle on the pandemic.

Pardeshi has been transferred as additional chief secretary in the urban development department.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday refuted rumours that the Army is being deployed in Mumbai as the COVID-19 cases rise in India's financial capital.

Thackeray said the Mumbai Police is capable of handling the situation but additional forces may be sought from the Centre if needed so that the state police force gets some respite.

The United States of America is likely to put a temporary ban on the issuing process of some work-based visas like the widely popular H-1B as well as visas for students and work authorisation that accompanies them, which may lead to distress among foreign students and professionals in the country. The move is reportedly being taken due to the high level of unemployment in the country, which is a direct effect of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak, which is spreading like wildfire across the world.

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