The Ministry of Home Affairs did not make any new changes to the existing Unlock 5 guidelines in its latest instructions for another set of unlocking and said that they would continue to be implemented in November. However, a strict lockdown will be seen in containment areas.

What the latest guidelines mean for schools, colleges, and educational institutions:

1) On the reopening of schools and other educational institutions, states and union territories have been given an upper hand to decide whether to start classes or not.

Keshubhai Patel, former Chief Minister of Gujarat, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 92.

He had earlier been admitted to the hospital in an unconscious state, Dr Akshay Kiledar, representative of the Sterling Hospital in Ahmedabad said.

In a bid to deal with the festive season rush on Diwali and Chhath Puja, the Indian Railways has decided to run several special trains. Chief Public Relations Officer (PRO) Deepak Kumar said in a statement that in view of the upcoming festivals, special trains will be operated for various destinations.

The trains will be run from October 20 to October 30 to cater to the huge rush during the holiday period of Diwali and Chhat Puja.

Hyderabad-based pharma firm Dr Reddy’s Laboratories (DRL) said it had engaged with partners in India to make the Russian vaccine candidate Sputnik V and is also open to partnering with other global and Indian firms to distribute vaccines or Covid-19 therapies.

Erez Israeli, chief executive officer (CEO) of DRL, said that it had “engaged” with partners in India to manufacture the Sputnik V.

Air India's low-cost international subsidiary Air India Express on Wednesday reported its highest-ever net profit, at Rs 412.77 crore for the financial year 2019-20.

The airline had reported a net profit of Rs 169 crore in 2018-19.

The air in the national capital on Thursday further deteriorated with the rise of pollutants in the atmosphere.

The Air Quality Index (AQI) stood at 401 in Anand Vihar, 405 in Alipur, and 410 in Wazirpur, all three in the severe category as per the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) data.

With India working on multiple COVID-19 vaccine candidates, Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla has said that Covidshield, a vaccine candidate that has shown promising results during trials, may be ready by the end of this year.

However, he told News18 that a lot is subject to data from the UK and also a lot depends on the approvals coming through from the Drugs Controller General Of India.

In a major development on Tuesday, the Centre notified the new Land Laws for Jammu & Kashmir, paving the way for any Indian to buy land in the union territory.

The union home ministry has notified this on Monday in a gazette notification. The MHA notified what it calls UT of Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Adaptation of Central Laws) Third Order, 2020. The order comes into force with immediate effect.

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday slammed the mainstream media and big tech companies for blocking the alleged corruption cases against his opponent Democratic challenger Joe Biden.

Nobody has ever seen anything like we're witnessing right now. I think it's a very sad time and it'll go down as a very sad era for the media and certainly for big tech (companies), Trump told reporters at the White House before leaving for the day on a campaign trail.

With 36,469 new COVID-19 cases, India's total cases surged to 79,46,429, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW).

With 488 new deaths, the toll mounted to 1,19,502, as per the Ministry. The total active coronavirus cases are 6,25,857 after a decrease of 27,860 in the last 24 hours. The total cured cases are 72,01,070 with 63,842 new discharges in the last 24 hours.

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