India recorded the highest single-day jump of nearly 16,000 COVID-19 cases on Wednesday while Delhi surpassed Mumbai after the Capital’s cases soared to over 70,390. Mumbai has 69,625 cases. Delhi is the second worst-hit state ahead of Tamil Nadu. Over 14,000 new cases were registered in the country for the fifth day in a row to take the total to 4,56,183.
The Madras High Court set aside the death sentence of five convicts in the 2016 “honour killing” of Shankar in Tamil Nadu’s Udumalapet. Kausalya’s father, B. Chinnasamy, was acquitted. Kausalya and Shankar, a Dalit, were attacked a year after their marriage in 2015. Shankar, 22, died while Kausalya, then 19, survived.
Diesel price at Rs 79.88 a litre became steeper than petrol (Rs 79.76) for the first time in New Delhi after a steep hike in state VAT. A price notification of state oil marketing companies says petrol price was unchanged after 17 consecutive increases, while diesel rates were hiked by 48 paise a litre, the 18th daily increase in a row across the country.
