A student of a college run by former Union minister Swami Chinmayanand’s trust was found with severe burns and naked along a highway in Shahjahanpur, UP. She is stable and under treatment, doctors say. This follows the death of two girls—15 and 14—in Unnao. They and a 16-year-old were found in a field where they had gone to fetch fodder. The older girl is being treated in a Kanpur hospital.
The Bombay High Court has granted bail to P. Varavara Rao, the 82-year-old ailing poet-activist accused in the Bhima-Koregaon case, on medical grounds for six months. Rao was arrested on August 28, 2018, in the case involving an alleged conspiracy to assassinate PM Modi, a charge he and his family have denied.
The government allayed fears of Covid mutant strains behind a surge in cases in several states. The N440K and E484Q variants have been detected in Maharashtra, Kerala and Telangana, but there is no reason to believe that they are responsible for the upsurge of the outbreak in Maharashtra and Kerala.
